Game 2: Missing Headlines

Aim: Reading silently, reading for specific information, speaking (discussing in pairs).
Notes: Cut out news items and their headlines from a newspaper. Paste the news and headlines on
separate sheets of paper. Photocopy them.
1. Ask students to work in pairs. Give each pair the photocopies of the news and headlines.
2. Ask them to match the headlines with the news items.
3. The same with the one written on the card, that group wins.

This sample comes from our 5th grade spelling bee list.

different

language

mammal

dessert

favorite

express

thoughtful

surprise

stomach

pattern

pleasure

probably

numeral

neither

million

message

section

actor

annual

beginning

except

laughter

island

inventor

journey

These are words from our 6th grade bee word list.

especially

league

ancient

nationality

patient

vault

honorable

struggling

intermission

acquire

vacuum

persuade

mechanic

requirement

accidentally

performance

disastrous

scissors

vegetable

appearance

Our 7th grade word list contains these 20 words, plus 80 more.

authority

consequently

quotation

celery

phantom

adjustable

statistics

endurance

spacious

resigned

competent

influence

emphasize

misbehaved

compressor

courtesy

phrase

undernourished

havoc

parallel

Finally, here's a sampling from our 8th grade spelling bee word list.

outrageous

rectangular

honorary

minimize

contrary

passageway

vertigo

malady

lucrative

extraordinary

abstain

procrastinate

serviceable

parliament

necessity

recurrent

ominous

permeate

Celebrity is a team-based party game in which you try to get your team to guess
which celebrity you are. The gameplay involves three rounds: (1) giving clues by
describing a celebrity is; (2) acting as the celebrity, and (3) using one-word clues.
Materials Required: Several tiny slips of paper; pens; a 1-minute timer; a hat or
small bag.
Recommended Number of People: Two teams of 3-6 people.
Time Required: 1-2 hours, depending on number of clues.
Ages: All can play. Clues can be adapted for all ages.
Setup for the Celebrity Game
Divide the group into two teams of about three to six players per team. The
Celebrity game is unique in that the names are generated by players themselves.
Give each player 5-10 small slips of paper and a pen. Have everyone write down
a celebrity name on each slip. Possible names can include real people in history
(e.g., Abraham Lincoln), fictitious characters (e.g., Superman, Mickey Mouse, etc.),
movie stars both past and present (e.g., Tom Hanks, Marilyn Monroe), famous
animals, etc. Names must be well known to players; a good rule of thumb is
whether or not more than half of the group is familiar with the name.
Do not reveal the names that are written. Place all of the finished slips into a hat or
small bag. Youre now ready to play!
How Do You Play the Celebrity Game?
Round 1 (Verbal clues): Team 1 begins by choosing a volunteer to start. The 1minute timer begins and he or she grabs a slip from the hat/bag. He or she uses
verbal clues to describe the celebrity name on the slip, and tries to get his or her
team to correctly guess the name. Once the name is guessed correctly, 1 point is
earned. He or she sets the slip aside and quickly grabs another slip. He or she tries
to get as many points as possible before time expires. If the volunteer does not
know the celebrity name, he or she can skip and move onto the next slip, but this
causes a -1 penalty for each slip that is skipped.
Now its Team 2s turn. They also choose a volunteer and does the same process
with the remaining slips in the bag. This process continues until all slips are
correctly guessed and no more slips remain in the hat/bag. Add up all the number
of slips for each team, and subtract any penalty points. This is the score.
Note: the person giving clues is allowed to say almost anything, with some
restrictions. You cannot say any part of the celebritys name. For instance, if the
name on the slip is Oprah Winfrey, its okay to say She has her own TV show,, but
not, She has a magazine named O magazine. Also, you may not spell, rhyme,

use foreign languages or give away letters. Thus, you cannot say Her name ends
with an H. Be sure all players understand these rules.
Round 2 (Acting as the celebrity): Get all the slips from Round 1 and place them
back into the bag. Round 2 is similar to round 1, but instead of verbally describing
someone as clues, players act as the celebrity. The player can speak in first person,
or a more challenging version is similar to Charades in which players can not talk at
all; they must simply gesture and use non-verbal clues.
Round 3 (One-word clues): The final round uses the same clues as Round 1 and 2
again, but this time, players can only say one word per slip. Thus, the challenge is
thinking of a descriptive, helpful clue in one succinct word.
After all three rounds, add up the points. The team with more points wins the game.
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Rules of Charades
I've found that the rules people use to play Charades vary from person to person, but I've provided a
general guide to the rules I've found to be most consistant across all players.

What you'll Need

Charades Ideas, which you can get from either:

o

Generating charades ideas cards online

Printing out charades ideas

Having everyone write ideas on blank slips of paper

Stopwatch, if you want to limit the amount of time a player has to act out a clue.

If You Want to Play Teams

Split everyone up into two teams. If you are using blank slips of paper, everyone should receive equal
amounts of blank slips of paper. Have the players write down ideas for the opposing team to have to act
out. Now obviously you could write impossibily hard clues, but in the effort of fairness/fun, try to keep the
phrases down to earth. Place these slips in a hat (or other container), and when everyone is finished,
place the hat in front of the opposing team.
Next, determine a 'batting' order for the players on the team. It is often easiest to just go down the line (if
you are all sitting on a couch), or clockwise (if you are sitting in a circle).

Flip a coin to determine which team goes first. A player from that team should stand up and act out the
clue. If the team can correctly identify the clue within the time limit, they get a point.
After the time is up, or the clue has been guessed, the next team goes, and you simply repeat from there
till the final score is reached. The final score should be determined before the game. We often play to 10.

If you Want to Play Laid Back, with Everyone For Themselves

If your group is just wanting to play and not keep track of score, this is a great way to play Charades. If
you are using blank slips of paper, have everyone write down their charades phrases and place them in a
hat. If you are printed cards, cut them out and place them in the hat.
Ask for a volunteer or, if you are the host, you should go first. Take out a phrase from the hat and attempt
to perform it. The first player to guess the clue correctly, stands up, draws a charades idea from the hat,
and then it is their turn to act out a phrase.
Note: If someone is acting out a clue you wrote down (if you played with the paper method), once you
realize they are acting out your clue, don't shout out the answer, and instead, stop playing.

How to Act Out a Charades Phrase

When acting out a clue, a player must get the other players to guess what phrase they have without
making any sounds, or saying any words.
Normally, when a player starts to act out a clue, he/she/it should start by indicating how many words the
phrase is, and then acting out each word at a time. You indicate to the other players how many words are
in the phrase is by holding up fingers. If the phrase is, 'Fly Me To the Moon', you would hold up 5 fingers,
to indicate 5 words. The players who are guessing should respond by saying the number of words aloud,
"5 words". Next, if the player wants to act out the first word of the phrase 'Fly', then the player should hold
up 1 finger, to indicate they want to act out the first word. The players who are guessing should respond
by saying '1st word'.
The player can help push the guessers into the right direction by using some standard gestures for
categories.

Book - Unfold your hands as if they were a book.

Movie - Pretend to crank an old-fashioned movie camera.

Play - Pretend to pull the rope that opens a theater curtain.

Song - Pretend to sing. (but don't make any noise!!)

TV - Draw a rectangle to outline the TV screen.

Quote or Phrase: Make quotation marks in the air with your fingers.

Now go play!