How to Play a Word-Association Game With Your Students

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sean Graham on behalf of Expert Village, sponsored by goturkey.com. In this segment I want to talk to you about game number four. Game number four takes a little bit more preparation. I've done a very short version of the game here on the board. What you do is you take twenty words and write them down on a piece of paper. Then you put twenty words on the board like this that are associated with that word. Now the point of the game is that I will call out a word from my paper, my list, and they have to find the word on the board that is associated with that word. For instance, I might shout "letter", and the student would put up his hand. I would say yes and he'd say postman. I might shout "meter", and then the student put up his hand and said "taxi". I might shout "David Beckham". The student puts up his hand and says football, and so on and so on until the game is complete. The kids love this game, and it really gets them thinking and scanning over the words to find the word that fits with the one that you say. Thank you."