Back-and-Forth

Materials:
 * A list of appropriate words.
 * Slips of paper with these words.

Instructions:
 * Separate students into pairs. One pair starts. One player in the pair holds a slip of paper with a word to his forehead. He or she can't know what word is on the slip. The other player in the pair must then try to make the first player guess by saying something about that word, for instance, its word category. For example, if the first player has the word "beautiful," the second player would say "adjective," and the first player says an adjective. If you want, the rule can be that the first player has to say his exact adjective. In that case, they need more rounds of back-and-forth to get to the precise adjective the player has. For example: P2: "adjective," P1: "nice," P2: "face," P1: "beautiful." Once the back-and-forth is complete, the same pair switches places and attempts another word from the slips. Give them one minute and see how many they can get right. Then, another pair comes up and attempts to get more words right in the same time. This is good practice for word categories and other types of vocabulary.