Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge ‘The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1984 First published 1984 Sixteenth printing 1995 Printed in Great Britain by Scotprint Ltd, Musselburgh, Scotland Library of Congress catalogue card number: 847738 British Library cataloguing in publication data Rinvolucri, Mario Grammar games. 1. English language ~ Study and teaching Foreign speakers 2. Educational games L Title 428.2'4'078 PE1128.A2 ISBN 0521 27773 6 Grammar Games was originally published in pilot form by Pilgrims Publications, Canterbury, England. This Cambridge University Press edition has been extensively revised and expanded and contains double the number of exercises in the original Pilgrim edition, Copyright Ie is normally necessary for written permission for copying to be ‘obrained in advance from the publisher. Because Grammar Games is a resource book, it is necessary to copy individual pages for effective class use: for this reason the normal requirement is waived: it is not necessary to write to Cambridge University Press for permission, MXContents Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 Feelings about grammar Structure SectionI Competitive games i Headless sentences Present simple passive 9 12 Noughts and crosses Determiners: some, any, much, many, etc B 13 The dice and grid game Irregular verb parts 15 14 Auction Mixed structures 18 1S Snap Question tags 22 16 Snakes and ladders Present perfect + for/since 28 17 Double or quits Usage problems with like, pay, can, listen, want, be born, die, ete, 33 18 Find who Past simple active/passive 35 19 Grammar tennis Parts of irregular verbs 38 110 ‘The best sentence Phrasal verbs 40 ral Dominoes Word-building: prefixes and suffixes 42 112 ‘The money game Peer correction of spontaneous speech 45 13 Grammar monopoly Past simple interrogative, conditionals, present tenses, present perfect 47 114 Grammar draughts Present simple, pronoun agreement 54 Section If Collaborative sentence-making games m1 Rub out and replace ‘First’ and ‘second’ conditionals 56 11.2 Silent sentence Past simple 59 113 ‘The Marienbad game Present simple, ‘first’ conditional 61 14 Expand Word order 64 Is Contract and expand ‘First conditional 66 11.6 Sentence collage Let/have something done 68 117 Your words—my grammar _ Present perfect continuous 70 1.8 Give a meaning Varied structures 71 19 My sentences your paragraph Linking words 73 IL10 Complete cloze Could be, must be, might equally well be 74 Wt Cloze dictogloss Present simple/past simple 77 112 Present perfect poem Present perfect simple 81 13 From pattern sentence to poem _ Revision of structures recently learnt 83 wid With your back to the class _Interrogatives: present simple, past simple, : past continuous $4 mAs Correcting homework Mistakes from homework 86 1.16 Mistakes dictation + Mistakes from homework 89 1.17 ‘Memorising structures ‘Mixed’ conditionals 90 itiContents WL18 19 11.20 Section III ML ML2. M3 ML MLS L6 M7 UL8 1.9 M10 W411 Section IV IV. 1.2 1v3 IV.4 IV.s Section V VA V2 v3 VA VS v6 Defining birds and brothers Rating wrongness Right that seems wrong and wrong that seems right Awareness activities Times of day Animal habits My view of you Brain storming structures From puzzle to punishment Time Exchanging routines Itreminds me of... Things I wish I'd known at 18 Gripes auction Our lives Grammar through drama The shout in the circle Same and different From word to story Back-writing Experiences Miscellany Verb search Translation ‘Call my bluff” Verbs to story We are furniture Memory tricks Exchanging socks Bibliography 138 Indefinite article, present simple third person singular and plural Mistakes in written work Patterns proposed by students Present continuous to express habitual action Present simple to express habitual action When, as soon as, etc., whenever + present simple Present perfect, let/make Past perfect, past simple passive Verbs that don’t take the present continuous Habitual use of the present simple It reminds me of + noun/gerund, I remember + noun/gerund, It makes me think of . Ido wish I'd .., fonly I'd ..., [wish 'd_ wish + present or timeless verb Past simple Present simple, third person singular Pd like you to + infinitive, comparatives I want you to, past simple Irregular plurals Present perfect interrogative, they used as unisex singular pronoun Irregular verbs Mixed structures Regular and irregular simple past Past and present simple passive, spatial prepositions Past simple So as to, to, in order to, although, because, asa 92 94 95 97 100 102 104 106 108 109 wa. 112 113 115 117 118 119 121 123 124 127 129 131 135 137