Skills: This is a great game for vocabulary and word guessing.
How to Play:
Stick a card- Word Guessing Game:
With this game the teacher splits the class into two teams and calls up a student from one team to the front of the class. The teacher sticks a card or word on the student’s back. Make sure the other students sitting down know what is on the student’s back, but not the student standing. The student standing has to ask the others many questions to guess what is stuck on his/her back. Needless to say that other the students can’t tell the student directly, what the word is. Also, discourage the use of the mother tongue in helping the student guess. Any student looses a point if they try and tell the student directly or use the mother tongue.
Students can help him/her guess the word by giving him/her only verbal clues, but only after the student standing has ask a question.
For example if the word PIG was stuck behind a student’s back, s/he should ask questions like this: “Is it a person?” , “ Is it an animal?”. Then the class says “Yes it is animal.” The student standing can follow up to ask “Is it a farm animal?” .
The student asks questions until s/he has guessed the word correctly and scores a point for his/her team. Set a time limit if need be.
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