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Your brain has an amazing capacity to
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remember words, often by linking them
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with visual images. These games help you
practice your word skills to improve your
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vocabulary and confidence so that you
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won’t ever be lost for words.
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Every picture tells a story
Here’s a game to test your storytelling skills.
Choose five objects from the grid opposite to
create a brief story. Choose your objects from
either a straight or a diagonal line. You must
bring all five objects into your story and use
proper sentences. Try to be as imaginative as
you can, whether your story is set in a fantasy
world or is just about a day at school!

Close relatives You will need: Keep talking You will need:
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finding the word you adult to help out with think on your feet— ǩ 4XL]PDVWHU
and hope those
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thinking up words ǩ 6WRSZDWFK
with related
meanings.
Step 1
The two players take
turns to talk on a topic
for 30 seconds, without
Step repeating words or
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Ask a n adult to write 12 words pausing for too long.
(noun The topics are decided
ns and adjectives) on separate
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piec ces of paper. Fold each piece by the quizmaster, who
and put them inside the box. also keeps time.
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Step 2 Step 2 Step 3
The first player chooses a At the word “go,” player 1 Next it is the turn
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piece of paper and reads out starts to talk. Challenges of player 2 to start to
the word, annd the second can be made at any point speak on a new subject.
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player has to say a similar if player 2 feels a rule After three turns each,
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word. If the noun is “yacht,” has been broken—the you could increase the
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he or she could say “ship” or if the adjective quizmaster’s decision is time to a minute for
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is “cold,” he or she could suggest “freezing.” final. If the challenger is each speech.
Step 3 correct, he or she continues
The game continues with the remaining the talk. The player who is
words until the player pauses for more speaking when the time
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than five seconds or is unable to thinnk is up wins the point.
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of a suitable word. Ask an adult to time 119
the answers with the stopwatch.
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