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Teacher’s notes
Activity type Information exchange
Number of students Minimum of 8.
Function practiced Learning or practising vocabulary
Lexical area Sales and finance
Grammar involved Present Simple, relative clauses
Setting up
Copy enough of Game Sheet for every student to have one of die word cards on the sheet. If your class is no larger than 20, you'll need only one copy. However, keep several spare cards yourself to prolong the activity if there are few students. Cut out the cards. Give one card to each student and make sure everyone understands his or her word and definition.
Playing the game
Step 1
The object of the game is for the students to teach each other their words. To do so, they walk around, find a partner, and take turns giving their definitions. If the partner doesn't know the word being described, the student tells him or her, and vice-versa. Then the students exchange word cards and move on to a new partner with a new word. If there are only a few students in your class, let them replace their words with new word cards from you every so often to ensure that enough new vocabulary is learned. As a last step, ask your students to sit down and read out the definitions on their final slip. Now, with any luck, the whole class will be able to call out the corresponding word!
Step 2
If you want to extend the activity, you can give your students the word-grid as a vocabulary revision activity.
Source: We learned this technique for teaching or revising vocabulary at a workshop given by Christine Frank in Berlin. The technique is also described in her book Activity Bank (Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, 1992).
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