End of the Year Jeopardy

In the language school where I teach end of the year means exams. We spend a lot of time preparing and revising. That's why by the end of the year my teenagers feel exhausted. 

This is how my students feel at the end of the year, I imagine

To lighten the mood I try to leave the last lesson (which is also a lesson before the exam) for something entertaining and relaxing. I usually go with a variation of a classical quiz. This time around I decided to quiz them on the topics they are quite familiar with.

The topic of the Jeopardy was themselves, their peers, teacher and our lessons.

The categories were

Our students

Our teacher

Our lessons

Our world

The questions are the most important part of this game. Try to recall all of the funny situations, inside jokes and hilarious stories that happened throughout the course and made them into questions. Some of the examples from my quiz.

Students: "Where does Katya go every weekend?" (She spends every weekend in her country house and tells me about it every Monday) or "In the "reunion" activity Borya had that many children" (Obviously, requires some remembering).
Our teacher: "What instrument did you teacher use to play?", "Once, your teacher told you a story about the terrible journey she had. Remember where from and where to she was travelling".

Our lessons: "On the Valentines day we had a problem with our player. Remember what was the film we were trying to watch" and so on.

It's ideal if the questions are personal and funny. Although, they don't test any specific language point, it offers a great language practice in a relaxed and personalised way.

Procedure:

1) Draw up the Jeopardy grid on the board, with the above-mentioned categories at the top of the column. Each category had 5 possible options from 100 to 500. The more expensive it is the more difficult it's supposed to be.

2) Divide the class in teams in any manner you want.

3) A team takes turn choosing the category and the "price". Read the question you prepared. They have 20 seconds for discussion.

3) If their answer is correct, they get the points. If not, another team has a go. However, it has only 10 seconds to discuss. And here is the twist: in case the opposing team gives the correct answer, they get twice as many points as the initial price.

4) Deduct points for using L1 or any possible discipline issues. Of course, it's better to inform the students about it before the start of the game.

5) The winner is the team with the highest score. You can award them with funny certificates, sweets or stationary.

My students loved it and it was the best possible way to finish the school year.