Verbal Charades

Verbal Charades

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You write nouns on slips of paper. You put the slips of paper in a hat and each student takes one. The student then reads the word on the slip of paper and has to tell the other students what it is without saying the word or using hand motions.

 

The other students have to guess what the word is. For example if the word is horse the student might say "its an animal that you ride on". You might want to add the rule that they cannot make descriptive noises (barking like a dog for the word dog kind of defeats the purpose).

 

A student can learn to talk around a word they don't know instead of always looking it up. (People Charades…)