Vocabulary+Activities

Vocabulary Games: Memory The students will be given index cards. Each of the vocabulary words should be written on an index card and the definition should be on another. The cards will be placed faced on onto the table or onto the board if the game is done as a whole group activity, and they will be placed in two groups one group will have all the words and the other group will be all the definitions. One at a time the students will choose a card from each of the groups. They will read the word and definition and determine if they are a match. If they are, then the student keeps the matches and gets another turn. If the cards do not match, the next student gets a turn. This continues until all the matches have been claimed.

Vocabulary Games: Around the World One student is picked at random to be the ‘traveler.’ The traveler stands by the student in the front desk, and he/she stands up as well. The teacher gives a definition. The first student to say the correct word gets to travel to the next desk and the process is repeated. This student travels throughout the room until he/she is beaten by another student. Once beaten, the student must sit in the desk of the student that he/she lost to.

Vocabulary Games: Swat

The vocabulary words are written on a PowerPoint presentation. The students will come to the front of the classroom in pairs and will each be given a flyswatter. The teacher will say a definition, and the students must swat at the words on the presentation. The first student to swat at the correct word wins and can continue playing and another student joins him or her to compete.