• Acronyms
• Adding a letter
• Alphabet story
• Bankrutschen
• Bingo
• Chinese Whisper
• Consequences
• Go fishing
• Guessing rhyme words
• Hangman
• I spy with my little eye
• Just a minute
• Maze
• Neither yes nor no
• Packing a suitcase
• Pretend to be a person
• Proofreading
• Spaghetti
• Tapeworm sentences
• Three sentence story
• Who am I
• Word football
• Word salad

Description:

The teacher suggests some acronyms and asks the students to invent the meaning of them.
e.g.: PIN - personal idiot number (Personal Identification Number)

Afterwards or in between you can talk about the meaning of them.

Educational objective:

• promote creativity
• repeat vocabulary
• practise vocabulary

Variation:

• two rounds to find out who got most of the acronyms right
• two rounds to find out who got the most wonderful acronyms

Arrangement:

• frontal
• pair
• group