A few quick Google Searches for Jeopardy templates for Apple Keynote turned up nothing except for discussion forum help requests.  Yes, there is a fundamental piece missing in Apple Keynote that makes building a proper Jeopardy game template impossible, but we can get 95% of the way there with almost no effort.  To my Apple fanboy chagrin, Powerpoint turns out to be even better at Jeopardy games.

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I have created a High Quality ESL Jeopardy game/template for both Apple Keynote & MS Powerpoint.  It includes 25 questions in 5 categories, geared toward high-beginner or intermediate English learners with some good general knowledge about the world (i.e. high school and higher).

Click here to download ESL Jeopardy for Apple Keynote – Version 1

Click here to Download ESL Jeopardy for Microsoft Powerpoint – Version 1

Description

Version 1 comes with 5 categories (Science, Math, Geography, Misc, and Sports), with 5 questions per category (increasing difficulty from $100 to $500).

Here are some thumbnails of most of the included slides:

Usage Directions

1. Clicking on any dollar value, say “Science for $300″ takes you to that answer;
2. Give the students a chance to think of the question (What is ____, who was ____, etc);
3. When the students answer correctly or times runs out (keeping track of time is up to you), click anywhere to proceed to the correct question;
4. Click anywhere (on the question text or in an empty area of the slide) to return to the game board.

Caveat Emptor

The functional difference between the Keynote version and the PowerPoint version is that Keynote cannot remember which links you have clicked on.  In other words, after clicking an answer on the Keynote Jeopardy board, viewing it, showing the corresponding question, and returning to the gameboard, it is impossible to mark which questions have already been seen and which ones haven’t.

Luckily, PowerPoint doesn’t have this problem – click on an answer/question, and when you come back to the gameboard, the ones you have already seen will be faded out to differentiate clearly from the unseen ones.

I hope this Jeopardy template is useful.  In the future, I plan to create one or two new versions with new categories & questions geared towards English language learners.

Click here to download the whole package!

Some lessons lend themselves easily to explanations & games, but ordinal numbers as a concept are not always straightforward to teach.  I recently attended a workshop in which my group had to prepare a quick demo lesson on ordinal numbers. To teach it, we used four ideas:

• Familiar celebrities (familiar to Korean students, anyway) & Olympic medal positions to introduce the concept of ordinals
• A bit of a math challenge to engage the students in figuring out which number in the series is next, previous, first, and last
• A physical activity to engage a dozen students in organizing themselves in order according to the ordinal written on the card they received
• A “Hotel Game” in which a bell hop moves from cell to cell on a grid, and the students have to yell out, for example, “3rd floor, 5th room!”

Here are the materials we used:

• The presentation as a whole – Click here to download in PDF format & Click here to download in Apple Keynote format
  
• The whole pre-made Hotel Game & directions – Click here to download in PDF format
  
• The Hotel Game board – Click here to download in PDF format
  
• The Hotel Game bell-hop image – Click here to download in JPG format
  
• The Ordinal Number Cards – Click here to download in PDF format