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Hatschi Patschi
Subject: Foreign Languages
(This idea was contributed by Andrea Guerra)
Age Range: 5 to 11

Students sit in a circle on chairs (all facing into the circle).

One student is "it" and has to stand facing away from the circle. The teacher gets all students in the circle to close their eyes and then proceeds to tap 3 kids on the head. All students may then open their eyes and the person that is "it" may come into the circle.

This student will go around the circle asking individual students a question in the target language. Each student is required to give a correct answer, except for the students that have been tapped on the head. When a question is addressed to them they simply call out "Hatschi Patschi", which is the signal for all students in the circle to jump up and run to a different chair (incl. the student who was in the middle).

The new student left without a chair is now "it" and the game begins again.


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