A couple of days ago a grade 5 class was going crazy. The baseline for behaviour here is that it's totally fine for kids to talk and to run around the room and sit at each others desks. With 20 minutes to go I was like Fuck it. Let's play a game. So I tried to communicate the rules to Simon Says.

One girl took her Thai dictionary and pointed to the english translation of a word which was "to be dazzled, to be puzzled". No kidding.

I was able to get 3 kids to understand it. Changed the name to Natalie Says. Then hoisted them onto a chair to explain it to the rest of the class. It was actually a big success.