Let's Play Games in Chinese

Foreign Language Learning and ESL Books and Games

$27.95

SKU: 978-0887273605 Cheng & Tsui

Let's Play Games in Chinese This edition, with new drawings throughout, features dozens of games--from Simon Says to Visual Bingo to Connecting the Dragons--oriented toward reinforcing language skills. For students at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels (each game is labeled with the appropriate skill level). Traditional characters.

Paperback, 164 pages.

Table of Contents:



Foreword


vii


Preface


xv


Popular American Games and Variants Thereof

 


Simon Says


1


Body Parts Variation


1


Action Variation


1


Ba-pattern Variation


2


Written Variation


3


Aural Bingo


5


Numbers Variation


5


Homophone Variation


6


Mutual Radical Variation


7


Compound Words Variation


8


Visual Bingo


10


Measure Words Variation


10


Antonym Variation


11


Simplified/Complex Form Variation


11


Twenty Questions


13


Numbers Variation


13


Object Location Variation


14


Object Identification Variation


17


Musical Chairs


20


The Buzz Game


22


Television Game Shows and Variants Thereof

 


Class Feud


23


Oral Variation


23


Written Variation


24


The Password Game


27


Simple Vocabulary Games

 


Telling the Tones


29


Passing the Message


31


Oral Variation


31


Written Variation


31


Aural/Oral Vocabulary Games

 


Merry-Go-Round


33


Syllable Component Variation


33


Full Syllable Variation


34


Guessing the Words


36


The Ball Game


37


Finding the Objects


41


Do You Know What You Are?


43


Fill In the Names of the Places


44


Name the Dishes


45


Reading Vocabulary Games

 


Call the Names First


47


Identifying Characters


49


Writing Vocabulary Games

 


Fill in the Missing Strokes


51


Merry-Go-Round


53


Character Component Variation


53


Full Character Variation


54


Relay Race


55


Character Formation Variation


55


Sentence Formation Variation


56


Group Dictation


58


Semantic Vocabulary Games

 


The Definition Game


60


Odd Word Out


62


What Kind of Noise Is It?


64


Basic Sentence Generation Games

 


Who Am I?


66


Positive to Negative


68


Restoring Sentences


71


What Could the Question Be?


73


Grammatical Pattern Games

 


Which Comes First?


74


Scrambled Sentences


77


Similarities and Dissimilarities


79


Specified Sentence Pattern Variation


81


The Linking Game


83


Timeword -Oriented Games

 


What Time Is It?


85


What Date Is It?


87


Living Calendar


89


Question-Asking Practice Games

 


Get More Information


91


Locating Your Friend


92


Reconstruction/Drawing Games

 


The Artist Game


94


Copying the Picture


96


The Blind Artist


98


Recollection Games

 


Can You Remember the Picture?


100


Location Variation


100


Comparison Variation


101


Can You Memorize the Objects?


103


Basic Description and Narrative Games

 


Leading the Blind


105


The Big Wind Blows


107


The Association Game


109


Make It Reasonable


111


Role-Playing Games

 


Who Is the Best Waiter/Waitress?


112


Country Bumpkin


115


Confirming Relations


117


The Alibi Game


119


Group Story Games

 


Group Story


121


Visual Stimulus Variation


121


Oral Variation


123


Written Variation


123


Intermediate and Advanced Narrative Games

 


Imitation


125


Quick Stories


127


Card Games

 


Pulling the Blankets


129


Asking for Cards


132


Number Variation


132


Character Variation


134


Concentration


137


Character Variation


137


Pinyin Variation


138


Character/Pinyin Variation


139


Antonym Variation


141


Connecting the Dragons


143


Sentence Stringing


146


Pulling the Rickshaw


148


Subject Index


151


Game Index


161