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Think of A Word: Activity Type

This document provides teaching notes for an activity called 'Think of a Word' which practices comparative adjectives. Students are divided into teams who race to provide answers on a board like larger/smaller items, verbs associated with the item, earlier/later words in the dictionary, and descriptive adjectives. The first team to complete all answers scores a point, and the game continues with new nouns. The team with the most points at the end wins.

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Think of A Word: Activity Type

This document provides teaching notes for an activity called 'Think of a Word' which practices comparative adjectives. Students are divided into teams who race to provide answers on a board like larger/smaller items, verbs associated with the item, earlier/later words in the dictionary, and descriptive adjectives. The first team to complete all answers scores a point, and the game continues with new nouns. The team with the most points at the end wins.

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TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Think of a Word

Activity Type Introduction


Writing activity, group This comparative adjectives game is useful for practicing or
work reviewing comparatives.

Procedure
Language Focus
Divide the students into teams of three or four.
Comparative adjectives
Give each team a pen and paper for writing.
Aim
Start the game by writing an example noun on the board, e.g.
To practice comparatives piano.

Next, write up each numbered item below on the board and elicit
Preparation suggested answers from the students.
None
1. Something bigger than a piano, e.g. a bus.

Level 2. Something smaller than a piano, e.g. a pen.

Elementary (A1-A2) 3. A verb that goes with piano, e.g. play.

4. A word that comes earlier in the dictionary than piano, e.g. eat.
Time
20 minutes 5. A longer word beginning with the same letter, e.g. perfection.

6. A shorter word beginning with the same letter, e.g. pig.

7. An adjective to describe a piano, e.g. black.

8. The opposite of that adjective, e.g. white.

Next, explain that the students are going to play a game where
they race to write answers for the items on the board and that
the first team to complete all the answers for a given noun
appropriately scores a point.

When a team has completed all the items, stop the game and
go through their answers. If the answers are suitable, award the
team a point. Then, begin the game again with another noun.

Start off with fairly easy nouns, e.g. pizza, table, student, knife,
etc. As the game progresses, give the students harder nouns,
such as the moon, anger, beauty, etc.

The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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