View Content #25727

From https://tefltastic.wordpress.com

Your InterCom editor has certainly had her students play quite a few Concentration memory games with customized sets of images targeting the vocabulary we're learning. But she never thought of some of these great ideas for extending the game:

"If you have a pack of cards with topics like “food” or vocabulary like “unicycle” on them, the students can ask each other yes/no questions about the two cards that they turn over and can keep the cards if they get the same answer to both questions. For example, if one student gets the 'salt' and “paper” cards, asks Is there any salt in your bedroom?' and 'Is there any paper in your garden (now)?' and get 'No' answers to both, they can keep both cards."

"Another popular variation for younger students is '3D pelmanism', in which they choose things such as plastic fruit from just feeling in a bag and then get points if they can say 'They are red', 'They are big (in real life)', etc."

Read the full blog post for many wonderful ideas for turning basic Concentration into a much more personalized activity with much richer language use: https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/matching-games-part-two-pelmanism/