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How Many Words Do You Know?

Submitted by bill on 23 October 2007 - 10:20am.

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ESL/EFL Game Profile
Name of Game:
How Many Words Do You Know?
Target Students:
Elementary School
Target Students:
Middle School
Target Students:
High School
Duration:
10-15 minutes
Number of Students:
Any
English Skills:
Speaking
English Skills:
Spelling
English Skills:
Vocabulary
Objective:
Write down all of the 2-letter words you know
Instructions
  1. Divide chalkboard into four equal vertical sections (columns).
  2. Make two rows of deskbound students one team
  3. Have teams pick a team leader to go to the chalkboard
  4. Leaders write all the two-letter words they know on the count of 1, 2, 3, GO!
  5. Team
    members help their leader by shouting out words and by writing words in
    big letters on paper and holding it up for leader to see
  6. Stop with 10, 9, 8,...0, STOP!
Variations
  • Three-letter, four-letter words, etc.
  • Words that begin with the letter 'S', 'R', 'Th', etc.
Notes

Decide beforehand whether dictionaries, textbooks, etc. are legal or not and rules for what kind of words can be used (ie names, acronyms that are accepted as words, etc). Will you count words if students don't know the meaning? Also, class gets noisy so make sure to close windows and doors.

 

A big thanks to bill for this EFL/ESL game!

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