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Charades  \nTime to prepare: 2 minutes  \nResources: 2 lists of vocabulary (recently studied)  \nHow to play: Split the class in to teams. Each team has a word list. Players take it in turns to act out each word for the rest of their team to guess. Even though you might think ‘photosynthesis’ is impossible to act out, asking students to do this will really test their understanding of the term! Give it a go!  \n2. Taboo  \nTime to prepare: 15 minutes to make cards. These can be edited & reused throughout the year.  \nResources: Approx. 40 cards for a 10-minute game.  \nHow to play: – split the class into 2 teams. Write the new word at the top of a piece of paper and below write 5 obvious words that describe your new word. These words are taboo; the students cannot use them. The student must describe the new word in another way. Their team guesses the word. Each time the team correctly guesses the word, they win the point.  \n3. Bull’s eye  \nTime to prepare: 15 minutes to prepare word balls (students could do this to save you time)  \nResources: Target on whiteboard or wall, word balls.  \nHow to play: This one is fun because students get to thrown things at the board! Write your new terms on different pieces of A4 paper. Scrunch the paper into balls and place in a big pot. Bring the image of a bullseye up on the board, or draw one on a whiteboard. The different rings of the bull’s eye represent different challenges and a different amount of points up for grabs. Students throw the word ball, teacher notes where it landed on the target, then the student goes and opens the ball up to see which new word they are working with. The tasks get progressively harder as you move towards the centre. So, for example, if the student throws a word ball and it lands in the outer ring, they would have to come up with a sentence that uses that word, if the word ball lands right on the bull’s eye, they must come up with a definition or description for that word. You can play this in teams and add up the points as you go.  \n4. Bingo  \nTime to prepare: 5 minutes to prepare the bingo cards using online generator. Again, students could make their own with pen and paper to save you time.  \nResources: 1 bingo card per student  \nHow to play: Students have a bingo card with 9new words on. As you give clues (a mixture of descriptions, images, metaphors etc.) they cross off the words on their card and shout bingo as soon as they have crossed off all their new words!  \n5. Jeopardy  \nTime to prepare: 15-20 minutes to prepare questions  \nResources: Question cards or questions on powerpoint  \nHow to play: You give the answer and the students must buzz in with the ‘correct’ question. You’ve got two options for your answer. You could say the newly learned word, e.g. “heterogeneous” and the students would have to say something along the lines of “which adjective describes something that is different?” ORyou could say “this adjective describes something that is different” for which the correct question would be“what does heterogeneous mean?” You can play this in teams and award points for each correct question.  \n6. Categories  \nTime to prepare: 10 minutes. Again, get those students to do it for each other if you want to save time!  \nResources: Create 4-8lists of 15-20 words each  \nHow to play: in teams or individually  \nYou give the word lists to the students and ask them to devise categories of 3+ words.  \nPoints can be awarded for the most categories generated, or for the most imaginative. Nouns generally work best, but you can make lists with just verbs or adjectives. Whilst this seems like a simple activity, it encourages deep thinking about the qualities of words.  \n7. Word harvest (This works best with younger students)  \nTime to prepare: 20 minutes but resources can be reused and/or edited  \nResources: Illustration of a tree on wall or powerpoint, 2 buckets or baskets, note cards of vocabulary terms.  \nHow to play","cbCaikQqedQcYkk3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikQqedQcYkk3","pdf",282626,"English","# 11 Fun Vocabulary Games\n## Charades\n## Taboo\n## Bull’s eye\n## Bingo\n## Jeopardy\n## Categories\n## Word harvest\n## Opposites attract!\n## Two of a kind\n## Name it!","[{\"question\":\"How much preparation time is needed for the vocabulary games?\",\"answer\":\"Preparation times vary by activity, from about 5 minutes for Bingo to roughly 15–20 minutes for games like Jeopardy or Word harvest. 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