Now that’s magic!

Nadine Chadier

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1089Language South East, 28th September 2012

La vie en … couleur

To teach and revise colours

Thread one end through so that the colours magically change from two colours to two others. Easy trick to learn.

Works wonders with nursery/reception children

According to where you position your fingers on the book, top, middle or bottom, different pages are flicked so the book appears empty, black & white or coloured. Easy trick to master.

Encourages lots of audience participation as you can throw spells at the book to bring drawings in and make the colours appear.

Say the colour of each crayon as you hand it over to the learner. Ask him to choose one and put it in your hand without you seeing it. Close your hand and put it behind your back not having looked at it. Have both hands behind your back and with the nail of one hand scratch the pastel, bring the hand to your face to look at the nail pretending to scratch your head and discreetly look at the colour under your nail. Say it!

Make silks change colours

Magic black and white drawings and colours

in into blank book

Guess

the

colour

• Choose a number between 1 and ten!

• I go out of the room!

• Thanks to my assistant I am going to guess the number you have chosen!

Télépathie

• Preparation:Put your hands on assistant’s temples. Ask him to clinch their jaws. Feel the stretch of the musclesmoving the jaws under your fingers.Practise your assistant clinching the jaws for a fixed number of times and you feeling it under yourfingers.• Trick:Tell the class that you are going to guess which number they choose with your assistant whilst youare outside of the room. Go out of the room, come back. Ask your assistant to sit down. Put yourhands on her temples and say that you are going to mind-read which number the class has chosen.The assistant, as described above, clenches the jaws as many times as the number chosen. Count whilst feeling with your fingers and announce the result dramatically to the amazed class.• VariationYou can decide to practise 10, 20, 30 etc. by briefing your assistant that if they clench once, it is 10or twice it is 20 etc.Can also be used by asking the class closed yes or no question, clenching or not.

TelepathyWith an assistant’s help

guess the number your class has secretly chosen

• With six cards…

• Chose a card

• It’s not this one…

• It’s that one!

• Options:

Do you eat? Drink? Go?

Asked in different tenses.

Guess which card has been chosen

Select six cards of words you wish to teach/practise/revise

Show the cards to all one by one saying what is on each card aloud

Present the cards face down to a learner and ask him to choose face down a card and handing it back to you so you never see it

Discreetly insert the card last but one in your pack

Take the top one (still face down) and put it last in the pile

Turn the next one to show it and say it’s not that one and discard it

Put the next one still face down last in the pile

Turn the next one to show it and say it’s not that you and discard it

Repeat the process until only one card is left, which is the card your learner has chosen

Chose a number between 1 and 30!

29

15 23

4

30 5 13

28 20

22 14 7

6 12 21

14 15

27 9

1

11

25 13

29 7

17 21

5 19 15

3 23

16

21

27 19

26 22

20 28 17 18

24 29 23 30 25

22

2

19 6 27 7

14 18 23 30

26 10 11

15 3

8

24 27

12

26

30 28 15

9 14

25 13 10 11 29

Guess which number between 1 and 30 has been chosen

Trick to be done with the ghost slide

(the previous one in this presentation)

Ask the class to choose a number between 1 and 30 and leave the room.

Come back when they have chosen.

Ask them if the number they chose is on the ghost top right, bottom left, middle, green and turquoise.

Ignore the ghosts that don’t contain the chosen number.

Spot the number between the eyes of the ghost that have the chosen number in them and add them up.

The sum is the number the class has chosen!

Ex. If the number is in the white ghost (between eyes 1) and the purple ghost (between eyes 16) and the top right green ghost (between the eyes 4), then the number chosen by the class must be 21 (1+4+16= 21), my age!

• Write down any three-digit number

(the digits have to be different)• Write it down again with the digits the other way

round• Substract the smaller number from the larger

one• Write this answer down backwards• Add the two numbers together• Your answer is…

1089Example:

365

563

563-365= 198

+ 891

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1089

• The sultan had 60 bedrooms in his palace• The sultan had 59 sons, princes• The 59 princes lived in 59 different bedrooms• But who lived in the remaining bedroom?• A man and princess eating monster!• Families came from afar to introduce their daughters to the

sultan in the hope they could marry a prince• Each family payed a bag of gold and silver to the sultan• The daughter had to chose a bedroom to find the prince• If the daughter finds a prince in the bedroom, she can get

married to him• But if the daughter finds the monster, he will eat her and the

sultan will keep the gold and the silver• Let’s see what would happen to you?

Once upon a time… there was a very rich sultan!

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What room number do you have?

Guess who lives in room 39?

39

Telepathy

Aux Champs-Elysées,

aux Champs-Elysées

Au soleil , sous la pluie,

à midi ou à minuit

Il y a tout ce que vous voulez

aux Champs-Elysées

Je vais faire un tour de magie!

Sac magique

donne moi l’expression préférée

de Madame Chadier!

Choisir

une expression

que j’aime

Je préfère…

Au soleil

Make your favourite word be the one picked out of the magic bag!• Ask the class to write on a card (post-it, small piece of

paper) a word/sentence of their choice• You do the same in front of them and put your note in one

pocket of the bag• Swap the pocket round discreetly with your finger pushing

the leaver underneath the handle of the bag• Let them put their cards in saying aloud what they have

written• Swap the pocket round discreetly with your finger pushing

the leaver underneath the handle of the bag to get back to the pocket that has your card

• Ask a volunteer to get a card out and read it aloud!• Magically it is yours!• Swap the pockets round again to show that they could have

picked any card!

Nadine Chadier

Tel 020 8889 7989

nadine@accentlanguages.co.uk

http://languagemagic.posterous.com/

To motivate!

To entertain!

To make repetitions/revisions more exciting!

Questions, magic formulas

To encourage participation!Have a magic trick bag ready for

the times when the technology lets you down!

Why bring magic into the classroom?

To reward!To involve all learners!

To simply bring magic into your teaching!