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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. Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This

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   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

4. Picture This

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   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes. Picture This cards stimulate conversation through a series of thematically related questions and interesting images that engage students.

5. 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.

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 – In a Minute

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    In a Minute provides students with practice forming questions that begin with wh- words: who, what, when, where, why, and how. First, players read and respond to the six ques­tions on a Picture This card. Then players race to write as many questions as they can in a set amount of time. This game works best in small groups.

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