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Here’s one I got from an EFL teacher the other day - well, I’ve adapted it. See what you think.
1.
Make some cards and on them write down the names of a few concepts. Alternatively, you could use the names of sociologists or famous studies, e.g. The Affluent Worker, Learning to Labour, Housewife.
2.
Students have the same number of cards and each has to mime or give verbal clues so the partner can try to guess the word or name. You can make it harder by doing it like charades - first, second, third, syllable, sounds like etc., but the disadvantage is that this is slower and the real aim of this is to be quick and so develop recall.
Just use it as a quick-fire warm up exercise, a ten-minute filler. It gets students recalling key terms/names.
Sorry, but you’ll have to make the cards up yourselves.
example terms for sociological theory:
functionalism, functional prerequisites, value consensus, structural differentiation, role conflict, dysfunctional, Marxism, class conflict, bourgeoisie, proletariat, superstructure, means of production, economic determinism, interactionism. verstehen, self-fulfilling prophecy, labelling, postmodernism, modernity, grand theories, metanarratives, feminism, patriarchy.
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