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 Activate: Games for Learning American English: Word
Bricks
Word Bricks are used for
building sentences in English. The Word Bricks have a wide range of words in
English written on them: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles,
pronouns, and so on. |
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Word Bricks: Brick Bingo - Brick Bingo helps
students make connections between the spoken and written forms of words in a
fun, low-stress game. The teacher calls out individual words and students
remove those Words Bricks from their Bingo boards if they have that word.
This game can be played individually or in pairs.
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Word Bricks: Brick Bingo -
2 pages - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Parts of Speech - In Parts of
Speech, teacher gives the players a specific pattern to use, and their
sentences must follow this pattern. Students use Word Bricks to build
sentences individually, in pairs, or in small groups. This activity is great
for lower proficiency level students, as it provides scaffolding to help
students generate a correct sentence.
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Word Bricks: Parts of Speech -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Sentence Boundaries - In Sentence
Boundaries, the teacher gives the players five specific requirements for
their sentences. Each round of the game requires the players to create
sentences that follow different patterns. The first team to complete all
five patterns (in order) and earn 5 points wins the game.
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Word Bricks: Sentence Boundaries -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Sentence Challenge - Players in a
game of Sentence Challenge work in teams to create the longest sentence
possible out of their Word Bricks without any help from the teacher. Then,
the opposing teams are responsible for ‘challenging’ a sentence if they
believe there is an error in a team’s sentence. Points are awarded to teams
that appropriately challenge incorrect sentences and to teams that create
their own correct sentences.
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Word Bricks: Sentence Challenge -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Sentence Race - Sentence Race is
a fast-paced, exciting game that gives students a chance to think quickly in
English as they try to earn points by building well-formed sentences using
Word Bricks. This game can be played for a specified amount of time or until
one team reaches a target number of points. The first team to reach the goal
wins the game. Teams of 3-4 students work best.
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Word Bricks: Sentence Race -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Describe and Guess - In Describe
and Guess, players take turns selecting a Word Brick and then describing one
of the words on the brick without saying the actual word. The goal is to get
the remaining players to guess the word.
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Word Bricks: Describe and Guess -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Longest Sentence - Longest
Sentence asks students to create the longest sentence possible using a set
of 15–20 Word Bricks in only 3 minutes. Keeping the time limit short makes
for a fast-paced, fun atmosphere as teams compete to make the longest
sentence.
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Word Bricks: Longest Sentence -
1 page - Instructions
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Word Bricks: Sorting Race - In Sorting Race,
players race to find all words of a certain type in a set of Word Bricks.
The choice of word category can make the game more or less challenging.
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Word Bricks: Sorting Race -
1 page - Instructions
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 Music
Radio
I added this
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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Search Fun Easy English |
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