Question: I need to invent a creative card game for spanish class which uses our vocabulary words.  Any ideas? It needs to be fairly easy to make, but it needs to be fun and creative.

Answer: "Flash Card Baseball".  Make up flash cards with the vocabulary words (Spanish on one side and English on the other).  Simple words are a "single".  More difficult words are a "double".  Since triples are rare, a few very difficult words would earn a "triple".  The extremely difficult words would be a "home run".  Missed words would be an "out".\n\nDivide the class into two teams.  First one team is "up".  Either a member of the opposing team or you is the pitcher and shows the word (flash card).  Keep track of the score.  When a student correctly identifies a word, she or he actually goes over to the "correct base"; the students actually move around the classroom to the correct base, some of them eventually score.\n\nYou can make your own rule modifications to fit your class.  Students will be rooting for their team mates.  This will be fun, educational and promote student morale.  I suggest that each time you do this exercise, that you mix up the the students so that the same students will not always be on the team with the most "runs".\n\nGood luck.
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