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1. Board Game: Name Your Favorite

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   The board game 'Name Your Favorite' provides an opportunity for students to talk about their favorite things in a variety of categories. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Picture This – Mix It, Fix It!

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

8. Picture This – Simple Switches

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   In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card.

9. Picture This – Word Strings

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   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.

10. Word Bricks - Sentence Race

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    Sentence Race is a fast-paced, exciting game that gives students a chance to think quickly in English as they try to earn points by building well-formed sentences using Word Bricks.

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