Priceless, Overpriced, Worthless

This evening in my Young Leaders 9 class, we capped off the unit on Value and Price of the Solutions Upper-Intermediate book. To help consolidate concepts, we played a little variation of Stop the Bus, a game where each group has to give words for each category, but all starting with the same letter. Our categories were priceless, overpriced, and worthless, all terms that we learned in this unit. So for example, if I say the letter A, each group has to think of an item that is priceless that starts with A, and then an item that is overpriced with A, and so on... And the first team to get all 3 words has to shout Stop the Bus!

This game was perfect for revising and grasping those concepts, as students had to discuss amongst themselves if that item truly fit the category, and also, students contested other groups' answers when they didn't feel they applied. I was really amazed out how succinctly the students conceived each of those 3 notions! The game was really fast-paced and interactive, not to mention hilarious!

Here are the answers given for the first several rounds:

Priceless          Overpriced           Worthless

Parents             Plane                     Poo

Sister                Satellite                 Shit                (Yup, they actually said "shit".... haha)

Mom                 Motorbike              Manure

Brother             Boat                       Bee                (But the other students argued that bees
                                                                                                          could produce honey so they're not worthless;
                                                                                                          so nobody won this round)

Teacher            Train                     Tree Leaf        (which the class discounted as not worthless)

Teacher            Train                     Toilet Paper   (which the class argued that it was not a
                                                                                                           worthless item and that we needed it, but
                                                                                                           then a group member said that we don't
                                                                                                           need it because we just use the hose, so then
                                                                                                           I had a class survey to see who used toilet
                                                                                                           paper and some students mortifyingly put up
                                                                                                           their hands haha... )

Tears                Train                      T-Rex            (which the whole class refuted... so nobody
(...wow, very beautiful!)                                                                   won the T round...)

Cousin               Cat                      Carbon Dioxide  (which I was hesitant to make a judgment
                              (we argued as a class that                                       on, and the whole class refuted by saying
                               some species of cats can                                         plants absorbed the CO2 to create oxygen! Bright
                               be quite expensive!)                                              young ones!)



Good times!!!