![]() ![]() If the team can actually name that many things, they get that many points. “We can name four things from Belgium”, “We can name seven things from Belgium”, “We can name 15 things from Belgium”, stopping when no one bids higher. Students are told the country or nationality word being practiced and then bid to be the team to try and name people and things from that country by claiming they can say more things than the other teams, e.g. This is another game that can be played using brand names and names of famous people. allowing “Mini is a British car” (because it was originally and is still made there) and “Mini is a German car” (because it is made by BMW). ![]() Please note that it can be very complicated to work out where products and people really come from in our globalized world, so you’ll need to have the internet handy to double check and to give points for each answer that is true in any way, e.g. Students can then identify what each one is (“Jambalaya is an American meat dish” or “Rolls Royce is a British car”) for extra points. This is similar to Word Roots Dictation above, but with a list of names of companies, products and maybe famous people for each country. ![]() “Ballet is a French dance” or “Ballet is a French word for a kind of dance”. If they are right, you can then give bonus points to students who can explain what each word means (using nationality words), e.g. Whenever anyone is sure what country those words came from, they can stop the teacher and guess. The teacher should start with obscure ones and get more and more obvious until they reach words that are obviously connected to one language like “foie gras” or “pizza”. words that come from French and are now used in English, using their English pronunciation. The teacher reads out a list of words that originally come from a particular language, e.g. ![]()
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