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What language game do you like to play?

hi,could you tell some games for improve language level?And describe the rules of the game at the same time,thanks a lot!

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hi SMILE :)
these books might help u :

1. games- pair work- elementary and intermediate for learning English
http://www.italki.com/files/doc/f3aac893-0f32-402e-aae3-62eca86bbf80.htm

2. Games and Activities for learning English
( http://www.italki.com/files/doc/43202c55-8231-4200-8350-6deb5ea82b19.htm)

3. ENGLISH BRAINSTORMERS!
(http://www.italki.com/files/doc/49712d2c-9f1a-4ce2-9802-e3f2874915d5.htm)

hope this help u .. :)
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Lyrics and Music to a game learning parts of the body for beginners, just sing it to yourself.
English Translation: Alouette means "Lark", so you will find it is much harder to sing this song in English since "lark" has only one syllable, ... just sing Aloutte & the say the part of the body , as in the song.
kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/alouette.htm -
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There are quite a few:
1) ghost: each player says a letter. If you form a word with more than three letters, you lose a point, thus earning one letter towards being a "ghost". Usually the word that is being constructed is a known word, like "platter", or "season". However, you are entitled to "bluffing", so if the first two people say "p" and "l", you can say "x", for instance. Now, if you do this, the next person can call the bluff by saying "I callenge you". Then, if you can think of a word that begins with "plx" (in this case you won't), then you lose a point. If, on the other hand, you come up with a word that begins with those letters, the "challenger" loses a point. The tricky thing about it is you might be the fourth person, the other three said m, o, and t, so you think "mother", and say h. This means you formed a word, because you spelled "moth". If the next one doesn't notice, you're safe.
Names of people or places don't count.
An example: Five players (there can be large numbers, but at least three): Player number one says G, number two says R, three says A, four says P - now, number five might think he is in a tight spot, because it seems the only possible word is "grape". But number five may say P, forcing the word "grapple", which will end on player number two. Then you say the player who lost a point is a "G" (starting to become a ghost), and that player begins the next round. Let's say she or he says "S", then the next says "U", then the next "R", the next another "R", the next player says "E", and now it is the turn of the one who began this round with "S" - but s/he cannot think of a word that begins with "surre...", and challenges the one before, who said "E". The one who said "E" will say that the word being formed is "surrender", and then the challenger, who was a "G", becomes a "GH" - one more step towards being a "GHOST". Those who become ghosts leave game and the rest continue, until only one player is left - the winner!!!
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2) The cidian game: each player in turn looks up a word of MEDIUM complexity (we might not all have 15-kilo giant dictionaries with 950 thousand words!). Then everybody has to say or guess the meaning. The one coming closest to the meaning earns a point. First to score 15 wins a set. five sets and you're a champion.
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3) On MSN: you form a team of 2 to 4 Chinese who want to learn English and an equal number of English speakers who want to learn Chinese (any two languages are ok). Then, each member of each team sends THREE new words with their meaning and a couple examples in context (how you would use the word) and hanzi if in Chinese. That means each player receives nine new words per week. At the end of the week, players take turns and on their turn ask the "opposite" language group the meaning of one of the words, or gives the meaning and asks the word. The first one in the "opposite" group to answer correctly earns a point. Then it will be that person's turn to ask the previous group a word. It seems to be a team game, but actually it is quite individualistic - the first one to make 40 points wins!
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4) Several players take turns sending sentences from which one word has been omitted. The sentence must be in the player's mother tongue, should be easy to understand, and if possible have only one possible word to fit the space. Each team has two people in it with different native languages. For example: I am teamed up with a Chinese, another team is one Chinese and one British, and another is one Chinese and one American, so we have three teams. I write "I was walking down the sidewalk yesterday when the glitter of a ______ caught my eye. I thought to myself 'well, that's enough to get two tickets to the cinema!". I waited until nobody was looking and picked it up". Only the Chinese can answer, unless they can't come up with an answer at all, then they can ask their teammates for help (but first they must all acknowledge that they were not able to think of an answer). The first one to say "coin" will make a point for his or her team. The first team to make twenty points has a score (which actually means twenty!). Scores can be added up and each team can boast about how many scores they have by posting it on their blackboards every time they increase their scores.

It is important that no offensive language be used in ANY of these games, for a number of reasons, one of them being that the twenty-year-old shy Laura you are playing against might actually be a smart ten-year-old Timothy. Another reason is it is more fun when you can trust the other people you are playing with, and hurtful or rude words tend to ruin the fun.

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The best games for learning are those in which speakers of different languages form a team, because there is a lot of motivation to teach your partner the new words, help him or her memorise them by using them in different contexts, etc.

Each language has its peculiarities that may create a challenge, and usually that is fun; for example, English has phrasal verbs, and the Chinese speakers will have to repeat them so many times, they will actually begin to make sense. For us, associating each word with its ideogram can get pretty confusing!
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