GAMES Pyramide (Pyramid) Level: Beginner to advanced. Players: Teams of 2-6 competing each in turn.

n. Arrangement: Half of team faces the board, gives clues. Half of team with back to the board, guesses. Players change positions with each round. On board : Four categories in English or target language Time limit: one minute. Object: to give examples within each category until the partners guess the category written. Each category is taken in turn, until all four categories are guessed or until time runs out. Scoring: 10 points scored for each category guessed within the time limit Rules: No gestures, no English, cannot give as a clue anything written on board either in target language or in English. Skills required and practice: Language production within a thematic context. Vocabulary and grammar, expressions, culture. Pronunciation. Listening comprehension. Mot de passe (Password) Level: Intermediate to advanced. Players: Teams of 2 competing all at once, as many as there is room to have. Arrangement: Two lines of desks, one line facing the board, one line with back to board. Each person sits facing his/her partner. Players change positions periodically. On board: vocabulary words or expressions Time limit: arbitrary / none Object: to be the student to say the word or expression on board based on the clues given by his/her partner and/or by the other players clues. Scoring: 1 point for each item a team successfully guesses Rules: No gestures, no English, no rhyming words. Skills required and practiced: Language production, circumlocution. Relative pronouns. Pronunciation. Listening comprehension. Brainstorm (Outburst) Level : Beginner to advanced (depending on number of items on each card) Players: 2-5 teams each composed of 2-8 students Arrangement: Guessing team cannot see the items on the card. Opponent team looks at the brainstorm card and checks the items the guessing team says. Time limit: Varies depending on level and number of items per card Object: To guess as many items with the brainstorm card category as possible within the time limit. Scoring: 1 point for each item the team names from the brainstorm card. Rules: Only items pronounced correctly in the target language may count Skills required and practiced: Language production, Vocabulary recollection, pronunciation. Listening comprehension. GAMES Catgories (Scattergories variation) Level : Beginner to advanced

Players: Individual players each competing against one another or teams of 2-5 competing against other teams. Arrangement: Players or teams each with a place to write (paper, marker board, tablet) Time limit: 30 seconds to 1 minute Object: To generate as many items as possible within each category before time limit expires and to have as many unique items as possible. Scoring: At the end of the round, players or teams announce what they have written. If someone else has the same answer, no point is awarded. 1 point is awarded for each response that no one else has written. This continues until all responses that were written have been given. Teacher can also play to give new and obscure answers or random vocabulary not covered in the textbook. Rules: Teacher discretion as to the level of correctness required in writing or in pronunciation Skills required and practiced: Language production within a thematic context, Vocabulary recollection, writing and spelling and pronunciation for scoring, creative use of language

Taboo Level: Intermediate to advanced. Players: Teams of 2-6 each competing in turn. Arrangement: One person looking at clue cards or at board, giving clues, the rest of the team unable to see the clue cards or board, guessing. Clue-giver changes with each round. On cards or on board: a vocabulary word followed by two or three words that the clue giver must NOT say. Time limit: one minute Object: to get his/her teammates to guess as many of the vocabulary words as possible in the span of one minute. Scoring: 1 point for each item a team successfully guesses. Rules: No gestures, no English, no rhyming words. Clue-giver cannot say any of the words written on the clue card either in target language or in English. Skills required and practiced: Language production, circumlocution. Relative pronouns. Pronunciation. Listening comprehension. Synonym generation.

GAMES Dessiner cest gagner (Win, lose or draw) Level : Beginner to advanced Players: Teams of 5-10 players Arrangement: One player at board drawing Time limit: Arbitrary / none Object: To accurately depict vocabulary or expression by using only drawing and to be the first team to accurately guess the word or expression being drawn. Scoring: One point awarded for each correct guess. The correct guesser becomes the next artist at the board Rules: No words, letters or numbers allowed. No English by guessers. Correct guess must also be correctly pronounced. Skills required and practiced: Language production, Vocabulary recollection, Pronunciation. Pictionary Level : Beginner to advanced Players: Teams of 5-8 players Arrangement: One player from each team drawing on paper or tablet or board Time limit: Arbitrary / none Object: To accurately depict vocabulary or expression by using only drawing and to be the first team to accurately guess the word or expression being drawn. Scoring: One point awarded for each correct guess. The correct guesser becomes the next artist at the board Rules: No words, letters or numbers allowed. No English by guessers. Correct guess must also be correctly pronounced. Skills required and practiced: Language production, Vocabulary recollection, Pronunciation. Les mimes (Charades) Level : Beginner to advanced Players: Teams of 5-10 players Arrangement: One player at front of room acting Time limit: Arbitrary / none Object: To accurately depict vocabulary or expression by using only acting and to be the first team to accurately guess the word or expression being mimed. Scoring: One point awarded for each correct guess. The correct guesser becomes the next mime Rules: No words, speaking or sounds by the actor. No English by guessers. Correct guess must also be correctly pronounced. Skills required and practiced: Language production, Vocabulary recollection, Pronunciation.

GAMES A la chane (Chain activities) Level : Beginner to advanced Players: Individual players Arrangement: Students in normal class arrangement or standing in circle. Turn can be established as random or by following the chain (i.e. around the room) Time limit: Arbitrary / none Object: To come up with a new item in a category list, as quickly as possible, without repeating any of the previous items. (Variant: to remember the entire list which has been presented before, and then, to add a new item.) Scoring: Players stay in the game as long as they are able to accomplish the objective, or for as long as they can accomplish the objective in the time allotted. Winner(s): the last player(s) left in the game. Rules: No English. Skills required and practiced: Language production, Vocabulary recollection, Pronunciation. Zut (Darn; Bizz/Buzz) Level : Beginner to advanced Players: Individual players Arrangement: Students in normal class arrangement or standing in circle. Turn follows the chain (i.e. around the room) Time limit: None Object: To give the next number in sequence unless such number is a multiple of the key number or contains the key number as one of its digits. Scoring: Players stay in the game as long as they are able to accomplish the objective. Winner(s): the last player(s) left in the game. Rules: No English. No hesitation. Skills required and practiced: Counting and numbers. Math. Pronunciation.

CATEGORIES The following list provides some of the categories that have worked well with my students. Feel free to use, modify and expand upon them. You are limited only by your sense of adventure and creativity and by how willing your students are to be wacky. You will obviously want to make them appropriate for your target language. For intermediate and advanced students, the category labels can be in the target language. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. ______ family members (male, female, close, distant) ______ clothes (formal, informal, mens, womens, summer, winter) materials from which clothes are made ______ numbers (even, odd, prime, perfect square) multiples of ______ letters vowels consonants words that start with ______ professions______ (that start with___ , that help people, that require ___, etc.) ______ verbs (-er, -ir, -re, regular, irregular, stem-changing, reflexive) the ______ tense (present, past, imperfect, future) forms of the verb ______ ______ adjectives (masculine, feminine, personality, size, etc.) adverbs days of the week months of the year seasons telling time things that are ______ (blue, red, green, difficult, scary, fun, etc.) ______ sports (summer, winter, team, individual) colors ______ animals (big, small, winged, water, land, farm, domesticated, etc.) classes ______ nouns (masculine, feminine) French first names people ______ (in this class, with red hair, with mustaches, with glasses, etc.) possessive adjectives stress / emphatic pronouns ______weather (winter, summer, spring, fall) countries in ______ (North America, Europe, South America, etc.) cities in ______ (France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, etc.) ______ capitals (European, South American, Central American, etc.) rivers in ______ (France, Spain, etc.) things one needs to ______ (play tennis, be in a band, make a cake, etc.) question words languages ______ activities (morning, evening, daily, yearly, outdoor, indoor, quiet, loud, etc.) ______ drinks (hot, cold, soft, alcoholic)

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parts of a meal ______ fruits (red, small, large) ______ vegetables (green, small, large) desserts main courses means of transport things one does ______ (in a kitchen, in town, at a stadium, etc.) rooms in a house household chores ______ furniture (living room, bedroom, dining room) types of shops or stores what a ______ says (teacher, student, waiter, diner, doctor, patient, etc.) what a ______ would say (tomato, pencil, car, shoe, monkey, radio, etc.) things one says at the ______ (post office, bakery, movie theater, train station, etc.) expressions for ______ (greeting, telling age, complaining, giving permission, disagreeing, etc.) things youd see in ______ (a classroom, a letter, a museum, the street, the subway, etc.) kinds of ______ (cheese, music, films, books, cars, etc.) things you ______ (read, listen to, open and close, lose, fold, forget, give away, etc.) famous French ______ (authors, artists, scientists, politicians, singers, movie stars, athletes, etc.) monuments in ______ (Paris, Madrid, Mexico City, Berlin, etc.) geographic formations reasons to ______ (not have homework, go to the library, be nervous, etc.) giving directions musical instruments making purchases gifts parts of ______ (a car, a flower, a tree, the body, etc.) things that hold/store other things asking for permission the subjunctive things associated with ______ (Christmas, Halloween, etc.) emotions good for the earth bad for the earth modes of communication good health habits bad health habits things with which one writes social problems consoling someone making excuses things made out of ______ (metal, wood, glass, plastic, etc.) travel essentials things that turn teachers that are cool