Concentration game (Extreme sports)

Target Language:
- Vocabulary game to help students easily remember the names of some extreme
sports by remembering and bring together the two parts that form the word, for
example Scuba + diving = Scuba diving
- Also help students see how easily some words are formed in English. For example
wind + surfing = wind surfing

(Teachers only-don’t give to students)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Scuba hang skiing rock jumping

6. 7. 8. 9.
10.
snow biking sky mountain in-line
11. 12. 13. 15.
14.
boarding water gliding marathon running
17. 18. 20.
16. 19.
bungee skating diving climbing diving

1. Scuba diving
2. Hang gliding
3. Water skiing
4. Rock climbing
5. Bungee jumping
6. Snow boarding
7. Mountain biking
8. in-line skating
9. Marathon running
10. Sky diving

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 (Draw grids on the board for students-as shown below)

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20

Guidelines for Playing the Game

1. Students take turns saying two numbers that have a possible lexical
connection.
2. Teacher refers to his sheet and then writes out the words into the
boxes of the two numbers students guessed and if the words have a
connection they get a point after defining what the word is. If they
can’t define the word, another member of the group can help. If they
can’t, then the other group could get the point if they give a correct
definition. If the combination is wrong, the teacher wipes out the words
quickly. For example if a student says 1 & 18 have a possible connection,
the teacher writes out the words into the squares. That will produce the
combination Scuba diving which is correct according to the teacher’s
answer sheet.
3. If they are correct as in the example they will only get the point if they
describe or define what scuba diving is.

Follow up exercise: Hand out copies of the word chop exercise below.

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 Word Chop (Extreme Sports)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Scuba hang skiing rock jumping

6. 7. 8. 9.
10.
snow biking sky mountain in-line
11. 12. 13. 15.
14.
boarding water gliding marathon running
17. 18. 20.
16. 19.
bungee skating diving climbing diving

1) Scuba _____

2) ______ gliding

3) Water __________

4) ______ climbing

5) Bungee _________

6) ______ boarding

7) Mountain ______

8) in-line _______

9) ________ running

10) _______ diving

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