Association string

Objectives

The learner can consolidate vocabulary.

Material

• Paper and pens
• Blackboard or something alike

Instructions

• Form a circle.
• Start by saying a word, related to the treated topic.
• The learner to your left says a word that s/he associates it with.
• The next learner makes a verbal association with the second person’s word, and so on.
  Example: ice cream, sun, holidays, beach, heat, desert … etc.
• Write new words on the blackboard.

Variant

• Divide the group into pairs.
  
• Let each pair write down the string of words. The first pair to finish the complete string, wins.