Dice of Fortune

Today, I made a breakthrough with one of my older classes. This class consists of four near-mute adolescents with a jaw-dropping deficit in self-confidence. So quiet are they - so unresponsive to direct questions - that I was forced to ask my Korean partner to find out if they hated me. (They don’t, I was told with certainty, they are ‘just shy’).

Today, they came out of their shells very slightly with a game I call Dice of Fortune (A 12-foot wheel was hard to come by, and fuzzy dice were quieter). It’s the same Pat Sajak pap we’re used to except points are awarded instead of cash. Anyway, they loved it. They were gasping, competitive, and I felt like Oliver Sacks feeding breakfast to a coma patient.

For new or aspiring Korean ESL teachers, there is a very helpful tutorial over at English Spectrum. Ironically, it is smattered with grammatical errors. The most humorous being, “Games will also increase your popularity with students traumatically.”

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