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 Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture
This
Picture This is part of the Activate: Games for Learning
American English collection. Picture This cards are a set of cards that can
be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes. |
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Picture This - Picture This cards are a set of
cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in
English classes. These cards form the foundation for conversational games
that give students the opportunity to practice speaking with each other
about a variety of topics. Picture This cards stimulate conversation through
a series of thematically related questions and interesting images that
engage students, activate background knowledge, and help match vocabulary
words with concrete objects.
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Picture This -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - ABCs - ABCs provides students
with vocabulary practice by asking them to think of vocabulary words that
are related to many different topics. Students use Picture This cards as a
starting point for each topic. Then they come up with related vocabulary
items that begin with many letters of the alphabet. This game works well as
a whole-class activity or as a competition among groups.
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Picture This - ABCs -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - Same & Different - Same &
Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background
knowledge about the items on the Picture This cards to create descriptions
that compare and contrast two items on a card. This game works well groups
of 3, having one student select the two items and the other two students
alternate comparing and contrasting the two items.
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Picture This - Same & Different -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - Questions, Questions -
Questions, Questions gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Using
a Picture This card, a player chooses one item, and the remaining players
take turns asking yes/no questions to try and guess the item.
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Picture This - Questions, Questions -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - Name It! - In Name It!, players
take turns using English to describe the items or ideas pictured on the
Picture This cards. In turns, one player describes the items with as much
detail as possible, while the remaining players try to guess what the
student is describing. This game works well as a whole-class activity or as
a competition among groups.
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Picture This - Name It! -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - Guess Which Challenge - In
Guess Which Challenge, students create sentences that use one of the words
on a Picture This card, and they say the sentence out loud, omitting the
word from the card. One student tries to complete all six sentences with the
correct word, and then he or she guesses the topic of the card based on the
six words. This game works best in groups of 3-4 students.
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Picture This - Guess Which Challenge -
2 pages - Instructions
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Picture This - In a Minute - In a Minute
provides students with practice forming questions that begin with wh- words:
who, what, when, where, why, and how. First, players read and respond to the
six questions on a Picture This card. Then players race to write as many
questions as they can in a set amount of time. This game works best in small
groups.
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Picture This - In a Minute -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Questions Quiz - In Question
Quiz, students practice creating questions that contain very specific
information about one item from a Picture This card, so that there is only
one correct answer to the question. This game works best in groups of 2-4
students.
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Picture This - Questions Quiz -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Mix It, Fix It! - Mix It, Fix
It! allows students to practice creating well-formed questions. First, one
player scrambles a question from the Picture This card, and the remaining
players work together to unscramble it. This game works best in small
groups.
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Picture This - Mix It, Fix It! -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Paraphrase It! - Paraphrase It!
provides students with practice saying the same thing in a variety of
different ways by paraphrasing. Paraphrasing allows students to be creative
with language to express a particular meaning, while practicing different
grammatical structures, word forms, and vocabulary. This game works best in
groups of 3-4 students.
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Picture This - Paraphrase It! -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Pass It On - In Pass It On,
students use the vocabulary words on a Picture This card to create a story.
This game provides students with the opportunity to be creative with
language and to use their imagination to tell a silly story. This game works
best in small groups.
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Picture This - Pass It On -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Simple Switches - In Simple
Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the
original question on a Picture This card. The questions on the card act as a
starting point for the students’ own questions. This is a great scaffolding
activity for teaching how to form questions. This game works best in groups
of 2-4 students.
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Picture This - Simple Switches -
1 page - Instructions
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Picture This - Word Strings - Word Strings
provides students with practice forming phrases and sentences, using
vocabulary words from a Picture This card as a starting point. This game
works best in groups.
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Picture This - Word Strings -
2 pages - Instructions
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Radio
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cool music player from VOA playing the top hits
and world news. Music player opens in a small popup
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 Hey Students,
Use this dictionary and reference to look up any words you do not
understand in Fun Easy English.
Note: search opens in a new tab. |
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