Spelling games are wonderful because they are very easy to manage and eat up loads of time. Plus they teach kids how to spell, and indirectly how to read, via the "whole-reading" method. All you fools who think phonics works have never seen it taught by someone who thinks "change" is pronounced "chang-ee".

Game 1: Catch the Teacher

Here's how you do it: you select a word from the vocab list and deliberately misspell it. Then you ask them if what you've written is correct. You'll probably need to ask them this in Korean, since God only knows they don't know any English, except for, sadistically, "You are heavy. You need to diet" and "Fuck you". Anyways, the word for "Is this right?" is majaiyo. So after misspelling a word deliberately on the board, ask majaiyo in the most incredulous way possible (lay it on thick, they're retarded). Some smart ass will raise his or her hand, confident in his/her knowledge that the word "duck" isn't spelled with an "i" (you can have fun with this game, too). Watch with glee as the little fool's confidence shrinks to zero as they reach the board, and realize that they left their book back at their desk. Remember, having a student-centered classroom means giving children a chance to ridicule someone other than you.

Come to the board,
my child.

Game 2: Team Spelling Super Challenge!

Team Spelling Super Challenge is  God's gift to anyone foolish enough to have borrowed money to get a liberal arts degree.

The premise is simple: you divide the class into two teams, either down the middle of the class, or, God help us, boys vs. girls (the children like it, but you will be permanently consigning your soul to Politically Incorrect Hell.) Then, have them give themselves team names in English. This is easy, because "team" is a Konglish word and they should know what "name" means. If they're shy, help empower them by suggesting names, such as "Team Ugly" or "Team Stupid" (while "Team Gaytard" has served us well for many a round of barroom trivia, it simply isn't appropriate in a classroom setting.) 

Anyways, now that you have the teams set up, call one member from each team up to the board. Call out a word from the section that you are studying, and whichever students writes the word on the board first (correctly) gets a point for their team. If neither get it right, repeat that word with the next two contenders. Repeat for the next 10-15 minutes, then give a sticker/piece of candy/blow to the side of the head to each member of the winning team.

A very special note: despite the purported mathematical ability of chinky-chinamen, you will be amazed that when there is an odd number or students in the class, one or two kids will invariably point out that the teams are unevenly divided. Rather than try and reason with them, invite those students who feel they could divide an odd number of children into equal teams to do so.

Game 3: All Mixed Up

Well, this isn't a game, but you can pretend it's one. See, what you do is take your vocabulary for the unit you are studying, and take each word and scramble up the letters. For some, you can just reverse the syllables, for others, reverse the first consonant with the vowel for each syllable, etc. etc. The point is, mix up the letters, so that each word is scrambled. Then write these mixed up words on the board, and give the answer for the first one so the kids know what they are expected to do (unscramble the words). Give a sticker to whomever is able to figure out all the words and write them down CORRECTLY in their notebook.