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1. Picture This – Questions Quiz

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   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.

2. Picture This – Mix It, Fix It!

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Mix It, Fix It! allows students to practice creating well-formed questions. This game works best in small groups.

3. Picture This – Paraphrase It!

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Paraphrase It! provides students with practice saying the same thing in a variety of different ways by paraphrasing. This game works best in groups of 3-4 students

4. Picture This – Word Strings

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   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.

5. Guess What? - Mime the Words

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Mime the Words, the Describer is allowed to say the topic and nothing else. Instead, the Describer must describe the words on the Guess What? card using mime.

6. Guess What? - Yes, No, Maybe!

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Yes, No, Maybe!, the Describer tells the Guessers the topic on the card and the Guessers must ask yes or no questions until they discover what the words on the Guess What? card are.

7. Word Bricks- Describe and Guess

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   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. Download the game and instructions!

8. Guess What? Guess the Words

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In this game, the topic of the Guess What? card is given. Then the Guessers race to call out as many words that appear on the card as possible in 1 minute.

9. The LIghter Side of TEFL: Limericks

   In: The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 1 Format(s): Text

   This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on limericks, which are light, nonsensical verses of five lines in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines, shorter in form, make up a rhymed couplet.

10. The Lighter Side of TEFL: Jokes and Riddles

    In: The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 1 Format(s): Text

    This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on jokes and riddles, which play with language and make people laugh at the same time. This section has an audio component.

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