Word Card Game Ideas

GAME IDEA: pairing

box or deck or two columns and you match the ___ of _____

WAY TO TEACH PHRASAL VERBS

3 bins.  subjects, phrasal verbs, objects/subjects

could this be a card game too with 3 decks? 

the student + drops out

take out + the trash

My mother + take out + the trash

IDEAS: WORD CARD GAME notes

what => shat.  

a game where you get words and letters and you can change the word by changing one letter. 

a game where swtiching out letters makes new words (if you know them), for example what -> shat

or you can take away a letter what = hat. 

one card is remove letter.  

one card is replace letter

four decks:  

adverbs

nouns

adjectives

verbs

you get an adverb (ex: generously), you want to pair it with an appropriate verb. 

if you get a verb, you want to pair it with either adverb or prepositional phrase, or a noun.  paint;  paint carefully.  paint in the bathroom.  paint a picture.  

if you get the word generous, you want to pair it with generous man  , generous assistant, generous helping. 

if you get a noun, you want to pair it with an adjective:  bottle;  glass bottle, fragil bottle, broken bottle

NAAV

VAAN

NAVA

AVAN

game idea.  

one verb, one noun, one adjective.  

maybe like you take three cards and if you cant play them, you hold onto them.  take 3 more next time around.  maybe use the board like manipulation.  

N-V-A

another idea

make subordinate clause-specific cards: like:  

whose dog is sick. 

whose job is far away

whose cooking sucks

which is 3 hours long

which wont be available until June

etc

etc

and other cards with full sentences.  

GAME IDEAS THAT INCLUDE BOX OF PAPER SLIPS. 

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

pieces of paper in a box.  pull out either a qustion or an answer.  

two boxes, one of questions, one of answers. 

QUESTION BEGINNINGS… 

Do

Will

When has …?

have the student pick 5, or each student in the group pick until the box is empty.  homework or to do in the moment:  write sentences using the picked pieces.  

one student might have:  

When could

Shall

May 

Why might

What does

has to make sentences using these.  could invent from scratch, or could pick pronouns or random proper nouns out of another bag.  

something to say. 

pieces, clauses, various random things.  (for a card deck game)

something to say

something to do

anything I want

whatever

make it happen

any way you slice it

evertying you do

happens every time

2 word, 3 word combinations

also  __ of the ____

and other constructions

Prepositions + _________

before + You die

after I have my cake and eat it too

just start writing stuff down like the gerund phrases i collect in class and different terminology.  then group the cateogires and see what you can do with them. 

do rsearch: 

words containing “shock”   shockwave, aftershock

words containing “wave”

words containing “after”

have these lists as guides when playing the compound word game. 

Rejoinder!

rejoinder (plural rejoinders) 

  1. (law) The defendant's answer to the replication.

 2. A response that answers another response.

 3. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question. 

DONT WORRY

THESE THIGNS HAPPEN

WELL AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE _____

more noun clauses for card game. 

whether or not _______ i eat that pie, e.g. 

in one stack: 

all tokens or noun / verb clauses. 

gerunds:  taking a bath

verb phrases:  to take a bath

dependent clauses:  when I go to sleep

in another stack: verbs, conjugated

or

verbs unconjugated

in third stack? 

CARD GAME.  ONE DECK, THE 128 POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS. 

_PC.

>>C.t?-

etc

ONE DECK, CLAUSES LIKE “IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS”

“IF I WIN THE LOTTERY”

“IF I WON THE LOTTERY”

“IF I HAD WON THE LOTTERY”

“IF THE REFRIGERATOR STOPS WORKING”

“WHEN MOTHER ARRIVES”

“WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN”

THIRD DECK HAS GERUND PHRASES THAT COUNT AS VERB CARDS.  

DECKED OUT

the phrasal verb card game

two decks, verbs and prepositions.  

pick one of each, you can hold or lay them down.  you can put them in your hand and switch them.  

maybe a third deck with objects or nouns like “pineapple”  and “something good”  and “when the sun sets”  and “2 or 3 times a day”.    the person who throws down the best fit with one verb and one preposition making a phrasal verb wins the noun card.  

or

P.O.S. 

cards are parts of speech.  one card wil be a full phrasal verb.  another card will be a prepositional phrase, etc.  

word game, sentence game, learning english.  

SUBORDINATION:  matching clauses to produce new sentences.  

deal 7-10 cards.  decide in the end who has the best sentence.  

art is about 

reverence

respect

appreciation

imagin if this weere a card game.  you get “art” and other cards you have to associate with the first word and epxlain how they’re associated.  

word game centered on words that can be verbs and nouns.  and possibly adj?  

coin = v and n

spoon = v and n

and if you can form a NVN, you win the game. 

COIN TERM COIN

SPOON PARTNER SPOON

eh, doesnt really work

so just V and N.  or N and V. 

or N and Adj.  

take place  

place face

place 

a word card game where you get

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

and you 

can throw down a card to replace one fo the words

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

SWIMMING POOLS

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WORD PEARS

(word pairs)

stack filld with words that are good both for composite words, and for verb noun combinations.  

finish [the] meal , it works

finish time, it works as a compound word.  

if it works for both, double point.  

for ex.?

each card is a piece of the formula.    

one card may be S, another P

or _S  or <P

or _S+   or >Pc-

W

W(o)

(<_>>)

(<_>>)

Manipulation style.  

always have to leave an independent clause on the table.  cant play until you have an independent clause.  

at least N V

(imperative statements dont count)

Someone cant add an O until they put down their own NV. 

card game word game

sentences, utterances: 

5413.  is this what you’re looking for?  

5414.  How about that!

5415… 

i would prefer

do you use

might she have

if these are 3 decks and 3 word combos are made each time a card is taken from each deck. 

then the person has to create a situation, and create the full question. 

or the person has to align it with a given situation card.  

e.g.
card says:  she left the house

if the person has "where did she", they can say "where did she go"
if the person has why did they", they can't really play it.
if the preson has "do you think" they can play "do you think she went to hte movies"? 

make a list of possible first 3 word sentences.