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1. Board Game: What Do I Know About ...?

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   This board game allows students to share their knowledge about a variety of subjects. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

2. Board Game: Which One is Different? Why?

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   The board game Which One Is Different? Why? gives students an opportunity to debate which idea is different from the rest. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

3. Picture This – ABCs

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   ABCs provides students with vocabulary practice by asking them to think of vocabu­lary words that are related to many different topics. This game works well as a whole-class activity or as a competition among groups.

4. Board Game: What You Might Find

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   This board game provides students with prompts to discuss what they might find in specific locations. Download the game, instructions, and game variations.

5. Board Game: What Someone Does

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   This board game gives students a chance to talk about what people do in certain situations. Download the game, instructions, and game variations.

6. Picture This – Same & Different

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   Same & Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background knowledge about the items on the 'Picture This' cards to create descriptions that compare and contrast two items on a card.

7. Picture This – Questions, Questions

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   This game gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Download the cards and instructions for the game.

8. Picture This – Name It!

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   In Name It!, players take turns using English to describe the items or ideas pictured on the Picture This cards. I

9. Picture This – Guess Which Challenge

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   In Guess Which Challenge, students create sentences that use one of the words on a Picture This card.

10. Picture This – Questions Quiz

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    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.

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