Teacher Talkabout

The class 'test' the teacher on their knowledge of key words related to this topic

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Sort a Sentence

Students work in pairs to reconstruct a cut up sentence about this topic.

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3-2-1

Display this on the whiteboard as students are walking through the door. They can work individually or in pairs to come up with the answers.

Good for differentiation as all students should be able to get at least one of the six points.

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30 Seconds

Students are shown a number of terms for exactly 30 seconds. They need to memorise as many as possible. After 30 seconds, the terms are hidden and they need to write down as many terms as they can remember along with at least one fact about that term.

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Lucky Dip Questions (Plenary)

Every student is given a number at the start of the activity. This is used to help pick who will ask and answer questions about what has been learned during the lesson.

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Summarise (plenary)

Students are asked to summarise the lesson that they have just done

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Pass the Buck (Plenary)

An excellent starter or plenary for involving all students and getting them to identify a large number of facts about the current topic

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Word Tennis

Students work in groups of three with two 'serving' words related to the topic. The observer monitors for words which are 'out'

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Reduce it!

Students are given a section of theory. They pick out the 20 most important words. They are then asked to reduce these to the 8 they consider to be the most important.

A great task for really getting them to concentrate and think about the text in front of them.

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Operating systems mnemonic

Students often find it hard to remember some of the tasks that the operating system performs. This task should help them.

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Once upon a time

Students are given a set of words related to this topic and asked to make up a story incorporating as many of the terms as possible.

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Exam style question

Students are given a set of questions which are similar to those they might expect to see in their written examination.

A good opportunity to give students practice on question answering technique.

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Tick the answer

Students are given a list of different items. They have to identify which category each item belongs to.

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