I am still checking out the games and activities that everyone has shared. Very cool that there are so many, especially if I go back through the past posts... Takes a while though.
Ok, some of the games sound really fun, but for some reason I don´t completely understand how they are played.
For example, the game ¨Othello¨
I have read the instructions here-
www.mes-english.com/games/gamestoplay.php and I tried to see if the same question was answered somewhere in the old posts, but I didnt see it.
My question is, do the students start out with a number of cards or are all the cards in a draw pile in the middle.
My understanding is that they take turns adding a vocab. word to build onto the first 4 words and the sentences keep getting bigger and bigger. Is that right?
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I play a similar sentence building game where students stand or sit in a circle and pass around a long thin strip of paper. S1 starts the sentence with a subject, s2 adds a verb (in the correct tense), s3 adds a complement or time expression, and so on and so forth...
S1- My mom
s2- danced
s3- with a bear
s4- at the post office
s5- last March
At the end we read the wacky sentenses that they came up with and the students laugh and beam with pride at their own hilarious wit.