On Nijay K Gupta's blog, he describes a Kuklos Eudaimonias (Wheel of Fortune) game he is using to teach Greek. He also asked for some other such fun tools for teaching Greek. Some suggestions:
- The latest edition of Croy's Grammar comes with a CD that has some great extras. Croy has some silly 'quizzes' that are really funny and also some inventive, instructional songs (e.g., "Eight Forms a Word" sung to the Beatles "Eight Days a Week").
- In my classes, we memorize the Lord's Prayer, and we also sing Ho Ihsous me agapa (Jesus Loves Me).
- A former student (thanks, JW!) adapted a PowerPoint into a Jeopardy style game for Greek grammar. Here's my version you can download. It should be pretty easy to figure out how to make your own questions/answers.
- If you want to do something with classical Greek, here's a games page and don't miss Αρειος Ποτηρ και η του Φιλοσοφου Λιθος*
*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
I am a doctoral student in Biblical languages and one of the best things I did for Greek was download the Earworms - Rapid Greek volumes from Audible. It is modern, but it has catchy tunes and helps learn some vocabulary. It also helps with fluid pronunciation.
ReplyDeletethanks for the links. i always enjoyed singing or creating stories for greek and hebrew paradigms. i still remember every word of a story my greek teacher used to teach the different forms of eimi. sometimes when i'm reading my gnt i will say, "aye, it's me". which i guess could lead to problematic translations, but the plusses outweight the minuses.
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