Eleven Principles of coping in large multilevel classes

Principle eight: choice and open endedness activities.
By Profesor: Viviana Salguero 
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Open-ended exercises allow students many possibilities for choosing appropriate language items and gearing the exercise to their own level of competence. This kind of exercise is success-oriented due that every student should  work with the new language.

Some examples of open-ended activities are:

1.      Give students beginnings of sentences in order to have them finish the idea:

                                                               i.      I have never...

                                                             ii.      When I get older I…

2.      Giving students sets of questions and allow them to answer 2 or 3 of those questions

3.      Brainstorm ideas

4.      Round table conversations

5.      Never ending board games

6.      Mini debates

7.      Question mingle

Among others

This is an example of a Never Ending board game. Students take turns throwing a dice or a coin and answer the questions. This game can be adapted for any topic, in  grammar or fluency tasks.