Creating a 'dobble' style vocab game
I enjoy the game ‘dobble’ and I’m sure many of your students do too! Here’s how to turn it into a useful way to practice vocab recall in the classroom. I play this as a way for students to practice remembering and saying vocab quickly, since it is a very fast game. They also have the benefit of multiple repetitions of key vocab. How to play The aim is for players to find the single matching symbol between two cards. Start by dealing all the cards equally amongst players face down. There should be one card left face up in the middle of all the players. All the players flip over their top card simultaneously, and they need to find the symbol that matches between their card and the centre card. The first person to say the symbol puts the card onto the center card, and the player who gets rid of all of their cards first is the winner. There are many other variations of play, and I recommend this for groups of between three and five students. Students will get through a game quic...