Memory Chain Game
This is a great game for reviewing vocabulary and works particularly well with lexical sets of words that you may have introduced. In some ways this is a fun method of drilling vocabulary or structures.
First organize your students into a chain by going around the class and numbering students. Before beginning, get your students to call out their numbers to check that they understand the sequence order.
Remind students that they must not write anything in their notebooks and must listen carefully to the other students.
Write up on the board your starting sentence or structure.
My sister Sally went to the market and bought ....
The first student then repeats the sentence and adds something to the end of the sentence.
My sister Sally went to the market and bought 6 apples.
The next student then repeats the first student's sentence and adds an item of his or her own.
My sister Sally went to the market and bought 6 red apples and a watermelon.
The process is repeated from one student to the next.
Obviously in a large class, students who are near the end of the chain have a much more difficult job, so you can encourage students to help each other remember the words, or you could use mime, pictures or spelling hints as ways of jogging your students' memories.
Elements of complexity can be added. For instance, in the example we have above, students could be asked to give a food item and a counter such as a bunch of bananas, a bag of apples, a dozen eggs etc.
You can also base the game around different themes. For example, organizing a party where students have to think of things to bring to the party, or talking about furniture and household objects by describing their bedroom, or listing animals seen at the zoo.
On Saturday it's my friend's birthday party and I'm going to take ....
In my bedroom I have a ....
Last weekend I went to the zoo and saw ....
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| | | Glossary | | | | drill (vocabulary) (n.) | | 训练词汇 | |
| | jog someone's memory (v.) | | 唤起某人的记忆 | |
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n.词汇；词汇量 (初中英语单词)
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