Start by announcing a location such as a grocery store, the library, a police station, or any other place. How good are your students at asking questions? They are a key part of mastering the English language, and this simple game will give them lots of practice. This is a great time to introduce or reintroduce your students to a thesaurus, too. Whoever has the most words left wins the round. When time is up, have everyone read through their words and cross off any duplicates. So someone might list ball, sphere, and toy referring to the same object, and that’s fine. The point is to think about different ways to say the same word. Odds are very unlikely that anyone will come up with twenty-six words, even you, but that’s not the point. The challenge is to find an object in the picture that starts with each of the letters of the alphabet before the timer goes off. The more advanced your class, the less time you should give them. Then project the image and set your timer for anything between three and five minutes. Have students take out a piece of paper and write the letters a through z down the left hand side of the paper. You’ll need a complex picture with lots of objects in it such as those from an I Spy book or the ones here.
This is one of my go-to games for teaching new vocabulary. Your students will never have a more fun time coming up with new vocabulary and testing their spelling skills. Play continues as usual until the timer goes off, and that person is eliminated from the game. He might say elephant, which would leave the next person to think up a word starting with t. For example, if you said coffee, which ends with the letter e, the next person in the circle would have to come up with a word that starts with the letter e before he could pass the potato to the next person. Whatever letter your word ends in, the next person must come up with a word that starts with that letter. Then start the timer and give them a word. Give your students an item to pass around the circle. Use a simple kitchen timer that tick, tick, ticks as you play the game for added impact and drama build up. To give this game a language twist, simply require students to shout out a word before they can pass the item to the next person. Play continues until only one person remains. The person holding the potato when the timer goes off or the music stops is eliminated. Players sit in a circle and pass an item, often a potato - go figure, around the circle. Did you play hot potato when you were a kid? I remember it as a staple at birthday parties in my very young years.
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