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Stop the Music Game
Age/Level: Any Time: 20 minutes Players: Small teams Preparation: Dance music

Aim: To write ten category words beginning with a certain letter

This lively vocabulary game is ideal for reviewing categories of words.

Procedure

On the board, write ten categories and number them one to ten, e.g. 1. sports, 2. verbs, 3.
animals, etc.

In the centre of the board, draw a square.

Split the class into small teams and give each team a number.

Each team should have a piece of paper and a pen. Tell each team to choose one student to
do the writing and to write 1 to 10 on their paper.

Bring the students' attention to the ten categories on the board.

In the square on the board, write a letter, e.g. B.

Ask the class to think of a word beginning with that letter for each category and write their
answers on the board, e.g. badminton, buy, bird, etc.

Next, explain that you will write a new letter in the square, but this time the teams must write
down their ten answers on their paper.

Tell the teams while they are writing their answers, you will play some music (dance music
works best).

Explain that the first team to finish must shout, "Stop the music!" The music is stopped and if
the team has ten correct answers, they win the round and ten points.

Then a new round starts with a different letter.

How the students show you their answers is up to you. Asking them to shout out their
answers is the quickest way, but you might ask them to write the answers on the board or
just show you the answers.

Example:

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