Guessing Cards for Action Pack 10

Here are 8 guessing cards that you can print (PDF)

or use as models for making your own. What are guessing cards? Well, each card has a topic on the top. These topics happen to come from Action Pack 10. One student is the DESCRIBER and the others (say, 3 or 4 to a group) are the GUESSERS. The Describer reads the topic aloud. Then he/she begins to describe the first of the 5 words on the card until group mates guess them.

Then another student in the group picks up a card and does the same. This will reinforce the vocabulary of Action Pack, but more importantly students have a chance to speak and have fun doing so. And they have a chance to really succeed.

Think about it. Usually teachers judge students successes on correctness. Did the student get the right answer? Did the student speak correctly or make mistakes? This is a little unfair, since in communications between native speakers information is what’s important, not correctness.

In this game, if a student describes the 5 items on the card, that’s 5 successes! He or she has communicated a message 5 times! And it doesn’t even matter if the language used was correct/grammatical.

You’ll also see that the 5 words have their Arabic equivalents. Remember, the goal of the game is describing, using language. So if someone in the group is not yet familiar with one of the words, that’s okay. The Arabic translation insures that the meaning of the word is clear and that the game will continue.

The cards available here are just a model. If you would like to create more and put them on this website, please do.

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