Treasure Hunt: PPT-assisted Review Game

Published on 9 June 2023
by Yu Liu & Shuhao Zhang, English Language Centre, School of Languages, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Treasure Hunt is a PPT-assisted game that consists of 16 questions with the aim of helping students review what they have learnt or checking if students understand what they should do for an assignment/assessment.

Aims:

  • Review lesson content in a fun and gamified way;
  • Check students’ understanding of what they should do to prepare for an upcoming assessment/assignment

Activity length
20-3- minutes

Technology  used

PowerPoint

Course area

EAP

Level

Intermediate

Target skill(s)

Review

Set-ups
Procedure
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Set-ups

Teacher (T) designs 16 review questions and puts them into the Treasure Hunt PPT.

 

Procedure

1. T introduces the aims and rules of this activity.

2. T divides the class into 2 teams. There are two “XJTLU Birds” on slide 2. T first assigns one “XJTLU Bird” to each team. For example, Team 1 gets “Bird 1”, and Team 2 gets “Bird 2”.

3. T invites student (Ss) from the 2 teams to open different boxes on PPT. Each box contains a question and is worth 1 or 2 points. If Ss answer the question correctly, they can get the corresponding point. To show Ss the correct answers, T clicks the space in the answer box on the bottom right-hand corner of the PPT. T clicks “X” on the PPT to go back.

4. There are two ways to record scores. If Team 1 gets 1 point, T clicks on “Bird 1” on slide 2 once, and the animation will show an increase in the score bar. If Team 1 gets 2 points, T double clicks on “Bird 1”. T should do the same for Team 2. The team which fills the score bar first wins. Alternatively, T can write scores on the whiteboard instead.

5. T calculates the total scores of both teams and announces the winner of the game.

 

Step 4 Recording scores

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Treasure Hunt PowerPoint

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