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Call My Bluff is an excellent ESL classroom game for these reasons: It encourages vocabulary expansion. It directs the students to consider etymology and the way in which English is a composite from a variety of background languages. It requires analysis of words and a comparison with what the students already know.
I explain the word in three ways, giving the correct meaning and two false ones, for example 'very smelly' (another adjective) or 'a tool for making potato rings' (a noun). The students try to guess the right meaning.
15 minutes. Introduction. In this fun defining vocabulary game, students give definitions for words and try to bluf their ability to give definitions in order to score more points. Procedure. Divide the students into two teams. Give one team a word to define. All the students in the team who know the definition stand up.
10 kwi 2018 · Call My Bluff. Like many EFL activities, this game is based on a popular TV/radio game show in which teams guess the meaning of obscure words from three possible meanings. The beauty of this game, from an English teaching perspective, is that it helps students to pay close attention to unknown words, noticing affixes and also the root of the word.
19 cze 2015 · This is a version of the classic definitions game “Call My Bluff”. Download the handout below: Call My Bluff. Introduction: Start by demonstrating the game by copying/projecting the examples from the handout onto the board. Thanks to busyteacher for the examples: http://busyteacher.org/20650-call-my-bluff-esl-adaptation-5-steps.html
15 lis 2012 · Did you know the word bluff means to make somebody believe something that is not true? It's similar to a lie but we bluff people as part of a joke or a game. It does not necessarily have a negative meaning. Decide which is the correct definition: 1. Bungalow.
25 wrz 2018 · The game has 3 rounds: 1) "Believe Me or Not" with 7 multiple choice questions and bluffers providing possible answers, 2) "Word War" with 10 word puzzles and bluffers providing clues, and 3) "Final Four" where the remaining teams identify the correct answers from 6 choices for 5 questions.
