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4. Post It Notes – Post it notes are very versatile when it comes to teaching and learning vocabulary. This picture was taken from a lesson revising adjectives and the English was written in one colour and the German in another colour. Students were asked to work in teams to match the adjective sets from around the room. The first team to match all sets in their area, correctly, was the winner. 


. Pictionary With A Twist – A classic, fun classroom game, which is fantastic for revising vocabulary at the end of a topic. You need to put students in small groups of 3 or 4 students per table and have small pieces of paper cut out ready for them. Give students the instructions that they must each draw a different object, related to your chosen topic, on each piece of paper. I recommend getting students to do 3 or 4 each. Once drawn, each piece of paper must be folded in half and put in the middle of the table, ready for play. When you are ready, instruct students to take one sheet and describe it to the rest of the group in the target language, without saying the actual word. Whoever gets the correct word, gets to keep the sheet until the end of play, i.e. when you stay stop. The winner is the person with the most sheets at the end of the activity. 



6. Word Clouds – One way I use word clouds to teach vocabulary, is by uploading a text in the target language and getting students to select words from the word cloud and make as many sentences as they can in the past, present and future. They get a point for the number of sentences their group believes they used accurately. The winner is the person with the most tally points at the end. This vocabulary activity is brilliant for recycling lexical items, but also for language production.