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Child's Play


I doubt it.


Make many small pictures of someone doing something (ok...copy them from a magazine or something). Perhaps there are twelve or so different pictures and at least 5 or 6 copies of each picture..so 60 cards? The verb may be "A man riding a bike" write the numbers 1 to 6 on the board and write yesterday, tomorrow last night usuallly always or similar adverbs. Get a big die. Students each get perhaps ten verbcards (mixed up-- having more than one card the same is ok). S sit in a circle. One student rolls die. Maybe it says "3" which is "last night".

Student puts a card face down on the floor and makes a sentence with "last night" and one of the verbs on a picture card. "Last night I rode a bicycle". The card that the student places face down on the floor MAY BE the "ride a bicycle" card, or it may not. For example, if the S has no "bike" card, then of course the card he/she lays down can't be "Bike". All the students in the circle lay a card face down on the floor one by one, repeating the sentence of the first student ("Last night I rode a bicycle"). If one s thinks another S is lying about whether or not the card he laid down is the same as the sentence he says, the then doubtful student says "I doubt it!". If the S laying the card down was telling the truth about which card he/she put down, then the doubtful student takes one card from each player. If the S putting the card down was lyng, then the lying s takes one card from each player. First one w. no cards wins.