Card+game+to+practice+vocabulary+lists

Materials needed: Bingo chips and a few decks of cards, depending on your class size. Four to six decks should be sufficient.

This game is similar to the game "fruits" if anyone has every played that before. I play it with my family and holidays and I thought it would be fun to alter it to make it a vocabulary game.

Students should get in groups of 5-6. Each student will receive 5 bingo chips. Before starting to play, each student will chose a vocabulary word that they want to be. (Obviously some sets of vocabulary will be more fun to play with. We play with fruits, so I'll just use that to explain.). For example, student 1 says they are "manzana", student 2 says that they are "naranja", student 3 is "uva," and so on and so forth.

Once each student has their vocab word picked, they should go around and repeat them all again just so everyone is clear.

Here is where the deck of cards comes in. One student will be the dealer and they will deal the whole deck out evenly to their group. The person to the left of the dealer will lay down their first card in front of themselves. Next the second student will lay theirs down in front of themselves. If they lay the same card as student 1, they will have to look at each other, and the the first student to correctly call out the other student's fruit and say what it means in English, will win that duel. So, using the example above: If student 2 calls out "manzana - apple" before student 1 calls out "naranja-orange", then student 2 wins that duel. Student 1, being the loser, would then have to throw in one of their bingo chips to the pot. (The game is played with quarters in real life, but we'll keep it legal). They then continue the game. Now, if student 2's card was not the same as student 1s card, then they would have kept going. So, student 3 lays down their card, and it's not the same as either of the previous cards. Now, student 4 lays down their card and it's the same as student 2's card. Now, student 2 and student 4 go in a duel. The loser throws a chip in.

Once the round gets back to student 1, they lay their 2nd card down on top of their first card, making their first card no longer playable. Whatever card is on top of your personal deck is the card that everyone will play on.

The last student standing with any chips in their hand is the winner of the round.

If the round go quickly, then have them play again, but this time they must use 6 new words from their vocabulary lists.

Also, you could have a championship round with all of the winners from the various groups.

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