Say Something is a fun communication activity where students will recall facts from a lecture, video, picture talk, or another source to complete for points. It is an easy low – no prep activity you can use at any level.
What is Say Something?
Say Something is used after students have received some type of input. It is an activity that allows teachers to easily see what students understood and a communication game for students to practice the language. Students will be given a prompt by the teacher. The teacher can use 1 prompt or several. The number of prompts will be determined by the content taught, the amount of time you have to play, and the language level of the class.
How Say Something works
Place students into small groups of 3 – 4.. Provide the class with a prompt. Students will take turns providing facts from the source until students can’t come up with a new, original statement. For each utterance that is correct and connected to the content taught, the students will receive a point. So if the prompt is to create questions based on the information, students take turns creating questions until no one can think of another question to ask. If a student created 10 questions, they have 10 points for that round. The person with the most points at the end of the activity wins (this does not need to be a competition if your students don’t like games).
Here’s how it goes…
Let’s say you are doing a lecture about pollution in the oceans. After your lecture, you play 4 rounds of Say Something.
- round 1 prompt: Students must provide a fact about oceans.
- round 2 prompt: Students must pose a question based on information in the lecture.
- round 3 prompt: Students must make a prediction about the future of oceans.
- round 4 prompt: Students must make a comparison about oceans.
These are just a few ways you can use Say Something. If you are using a story, the prompts can be a character analysis, comparing the character to yourself, or explaining what the character will do next.
Naturally, I gamify everything in class. This can certainly just be an activity to use in class without keeping points.
I hope you enjoy this activity and can fit it into your lesson plans soon!
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