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Name of the Activity: Squeeze the word

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Context

Description of the activity

1. What is the specific purpose of the activity?

Students can realize a word may have different part of speech. For example, record can be used as a noun or a verb. 

Students can understand that you can change the  part of speech by adding suffixes. For example, communicate is a verb and communication is a noun. 

Students can know many different words through operating Quiddler. 

Students can learn Grammar through interesting and fun games. 

2. What materials and/or tools are needed for the activity?

A set of QUIDDLER. 

A scoring paper 

4 part of speech : N, V, ADJ & ADV

4 to 8 different suffixes: al, tion, ty, ly, ed, ing, er, ive, (Teacher may add more in need) 

3. What steps does the instructor need to follow to carry out this activity in class?

Divide the class into groups.  Four to six people in one group. 

Each group sent a person to the main table to do the demonstration with teacher. 

the other students make a big circle to observe how to play. 

Teacher plays games with the presentative of each group. 

 How to play First round

each group will have a set of Quiddler

each player will have five cards in hands and put others in the middle of the table. 

flip one card and the person who can think of the longest word of that card is the first player. 

Each round the player can Squeeze one word from their hand cards or gave up one card and take a new one. 

Once the player squeeze a word, he/she has to put the word into the right place and to make a sentence. Then, the player can get the points on the cards and take new cards. 

 Challenge 

When players think that word has other part of speech,  they can grab the stickers on the table and say "CHALLENGE" 

Once the player can put the word into the right place and to make a sentence, he or she can get half points of that word. 

 Adding some fun 

teacher may prepare a dice, when the player Challenge   successfully, he or she may row the dice to get some points. For example, one player just got 10 point and the Challenge  player rolls 1 which mean he or she can get ten points;   the Challenge player rolls 2 which mean he or she can get five points.   

 Feedback 

Invite all students sit in front of the teacher

teacher asks questions like "What is Noun?"  "What is Verb ?" "What is  Adjective?" "What is Adverb?"

make students to discuss its function the the time to use. 

teacher guides students that some words might have two part of speech and it depends on is usage. 

4. How can the activity be adapted to teach other grammar focal points?

 How to play Second round to teach suffix  ( word formation) 

each group will have a set of Quiddler

each player will have five cards in hands and put others in the middle of the table. 

flip one card and the person who can think of the longest word of that card is the first player. 

Each round the player can Squeeze one word from their hand cards or gave up one card and take a new one. 

Once the player squeeze a word, he/she has to put the word into the right place and to make a sentence. Then, the player can get the points on the cards and take new cards. 

 Challenge 

When players think that word has other past of speech by adding suffix,  they can grab the stickers on the table and say "CHALLENGE" 

Once the player can add the correct suffix and put the new word into the right place and to make a sentence, he or she can get half points of that word. 

Students can add new suffix they can think of. 

 Adding some fun 

teacher may prepare a dice, when the player challenge successfully, he or she may row the dice to get some points. For example, one player just got 10 point and the Challenge player rolls 1 which mean he or she can get ten points;   the Challenge player rolls 2 which mean he or she can get five points.   

 Feedback 

Invite all students sit in front of the teacher

teacher asks questions like "What is suffix? " 

make students to discuss its function the time to use. 

teacher guides students that word can change its part of speech by adding suffix two part of speech and it depends on is usage. 

 References

how to play   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0FeHz_gI4

official shop http:// https://www.playmonster.com/product/quiddler/

online game  https://www.setgame.com/quiddler/puzzle

 feedback 

Tzu-Chun:

Overall, this activity is both engaging and effective. The students will have plenty of opportunity to come up with their own examples and discuss with each other. Here are a few suggestions:

• It seems that the activity is based on the game rules from Quiddler. It’s ok to use the same game rules, but if you think it’s better to simplify the activity a little bit, you can certainly write your own rules. Description of the rules and procedure need some clarification.
• Using the same activity to teach word formation is a great idea.
• One of the goals is to help students learn more new words, but this does not seem to be emphasized during the activity. Since this is a game for about 15-20 minutes, we may remove this goal if we don’t think it’s necessary or there is enough time.