What kind of classroom activities can you do to celebrate English Week in eighth grade?

I have to design classroom activities for my ESL students in Catano, Puerto Rico, and I would like to know if you guys know some good English language activities/competitions to improve my students' ESL skills. I always try the traditional spelling bee, dictionary contest, poster drawing, essay writing, etc. So, I was just wondering if I could get something else that is still fun and challenging. Thank you very much in advance.What kind of classroom activities can you do to celebrate English Week in eighth grade?
You can have an English baseball game. Split the class into two teams and set up the room like a baseball diamond. You are the pitcher. Hold up flash cards of Spanish words that they must translate to English or sentences that they must fill in the blank (or they can conjugate verbs, etc.) With each right answer, they get on base or move to the next base. I'm sure you get the picture. If I have any other ideas, I'll post them here later (working on piano lessons right now :-) )



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Scrabble games but English words only
we never celebrated english weekWhat kind of classroom activities can you do to celebrate English Week in eighth grade?
You could try English jeopardy or something...or the "See who can destroy the most rap cds" game.
read some things.....posters etc..What kind of classroom activities can you do to celebrate English Week in eighth grade?
Take a phrase like "Merry Christmas" and see how many words they can make out of it using each letter only once.

This could be done individually or with teams.



Try a Thesaurus challenge where you give them a word that can be used in the place of a word that is in the thesaurus and is not listed alphabetically in the thesaurus. They would have to find out what the word means and then go look for synonyms.



Words which are pronounced the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. How many can a group name?



Word origins would be another team type contest where they try to find where a word originated or what it originally meant. For instance the word gossip used to mean nothing more than a neighbor.