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Word Challenge

Submitted by I on 23 October 2007 - 12:12pm.

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ESL/EFL Game Profile
Name of Game:
Word Challenge
Target Students:
Elementary School
Target Students:
Middle School
Target Students:
High School
Duration:
15-30 minutes
Number of Students:
Teams of 4-10
English Skills:
Listening
English Skills:
Speaking
English Skills:
Spelling
Objective:
One team says a word and the other tries to spell it
Instructions
  1. Have students get into teams of 4-10 people
  2. One person from each team does rocks, paper, scissors
  3. Winner says a word and opponent tries to write the word correctly
  4. If they get it right, their team gets a point
  5. If they get it wrong, the person who said the word can write it out for a point for their team
  6. Have another person from each team play 'Word Challenge'
Variations
  • Make an 'arena' in the middle of the class for two students to face off
Notes

Students will start to look up difficult words to stump the other team. Remember to to a follow-up assignment for words used, such as teaching the class the meanings and having students make sentences with the new words.

 

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

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I have a question. For

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 20 May 2009 - 12:16am.

I have a question. For example, if Team A gives Team B 'superstitious', and Team B could not spell it, wouldn't Team A already know how to spell the word since they looked it up? Trying to resolve this before I give it a go in my classroom.

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I don't think the teams are

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 29 June 2009 - 11:27am.

I don't think the teams are allowed to look up words. Both teams are using vocabulary words from memory.

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