This game is fun and challenging at the same time. It can be adapted for virtually any subject and any level. It allows the students to review vocabulary, without having to get out a pencil and paper.
Arrange chairs in a circle and choose one person, the teacher or another student, to stand outside the circle.
Give someone in the circle a ball that can be passed around. You could use any classroom object to hand, a pencil case for example, would do just as well.
The person outside the circle states what the person holding the ball has to name six of (you could vary this number depending on the level of your students).
The person then starts moving the ball around the circle and the other players pass it around.
The player must name six of the objects before the ball gets back to him or her.
For example, let's say that you have just finished a vocabulary unit on animals. The person standing outside the group may say something like, "Name six animals that have fur." The person sitting in the circle begins naming six animals and at the same time, the ball is passed around the circle. If the player cannot name 6 animals with fur by the time the ball reaches him, he has lost and it's his turn to stand outside the group and suggest the topic for the next round.
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