Hi,

This activity is geared for conversation at the high school level. You will need to print out the cards and have them laminated if you plan to use it throughout the week, as it can get very quite beaten up if they are not.

I printed both set of cards for 1 lesson. I began by explaining the activity through the ppt. Then I had the students go into groups of 4-6 depending on the class size.  I had the co-teacher help me with 1 deck of 52 cards, while I had the other. This way the students will not be waiting too long to answer the questions and received new cards.  The activity ends once all the cards are exhausted. Then the students will tally up the total of the cards.

**note, only use 1 joker, or no joker at all.  I had 4-8 jokers in play and then the students complained that others got them to and it was easy for them to get high scores.  So after the 1st class, I only use 1 or simply took the jokers out of the game entirely.

If you have exhausted all the cards before the end of the class, simply just repeat the activity again.

This will take the whole class with low level students and 2 rounds with high level students.

Let me warn you that class became very noisy.

Happy teaching

This is what I did for this lesson, but you can change it as you see fit.

I had printed off 2 different sets of cards with different questions. 1 sets for myself and 1 set for my co-teacher.  I had the class split into teams of 4-6 students.

Also, in the beginning of the class I tell the students that you want to get as many cards as possible to increase your chance of winning. 

So let's say you have 6 teams, I gave team 1,2, 3 one card each. My co-teacher gave team 4,5, 6 one card each. Then we basically wait for the students to slowly come to either of us, it doesn't matter which team. That student must make a correct and complete sentence to get a new card.  When they get a new card, they return to their group, discuss, and then another student from that group would come to whichever teacher is free and gives an answer to the question on the card. If they are correct, they get another card, and this continues.  But if they are incorrect, they must go back to their group and discuss again.

If that question is really hard, I allowed the student to exchange cards, but they must spell a word to exchange.

Once you run out of cards, the game is over and then each team tallies their points.

***remember not to have too many Jokers or use no jokers at all.  Because Joker is a wild and the team that gets that card and answers correctly, will double their whole teams score. Then it almost makes it impossible for any other team to win.  Unless you add a last rule, where the teams can exchange or trade or lose points, so how. That's up to you.

This game can get very noisy but if you have advance to mid level students in high school, it's quite fun.

Hope that explains it.