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Vocabulary Development Game
This game is designed to make students use the vocabulary that they know already and expand it using formatives and suffixes (-ing, -ed, -ness, -tion) to make longer words.
Timing – 15 minutes.
Group – 2 -16 students, groups of four is the recommended maximum. Any age and ability group can play this game.
You need – A whiteboard, whiteboard markers, a die
Setup – First draw this grid on the whiteboard, it is easiest to draw two horizontal lines at the top of the board, four vertical lines (two on the left and two on the right) and complete the grid with two more horizontal lines at the bottom.
Then split each of the rectangles in two
And finally, each of the smaller rectangles into three parts
You should have something like this
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Now fill in the squares with the alphabet – the ‘Start’ and ‘Miss a go’ should always remain in the same places but the other letters can be randomised if you wish.
Start |
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
Z |
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Y |
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X |
J |
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W |
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T |
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R |
Q |
P |
O |
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Miss |
How to play – Each team must throw the die and the highest number goes first.
If the team roll a four, the teacher marks the letter D.
The student who rolls the die must give the teacher the longest word beginning with the letter that they land on. NO proper nouns and NO dictionaries!
Points are awarded for each letter that is in the word so NATION would score 6 but NATIONALISATION would score 15.
When the team pass the Z square the game is over and points for each team are tallied. The team with the most points are the winners.
Variations – This can be played with any level of ability but for more advanced students why not try to play it according to themes – verbs or medical vocabulary for example.
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