Cards

World Language - shared by Kim Sheeler, Pottsgrove High School, Pottstown, PA
1. You need one deck of cards for every 3 students. 2. Use ONLY Ace through 10 (no K, Q, J, Joker). Play to practice your numbers from 1 - 10 in the target language. Ace = 1, all others are value on the card 3. Arrange desks to form a triangle (one student is the "tip" of the triangle, other two are the "base"). The person as the "tip" is the dealer - shuffles cards - places them on a stack - face side down. 4. The "dealer" turns over the top card - the first "base" person to CORRECTLY say the number IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE "wins" the card 5. If there is a tie - the next card is placed on top - whoever wins that card, gets both. 6. After all cards have been shown and called out, the person on the base with the highest number of cards becomes the dealer, and the dealer becomes a competitor.

GAME MODIFICATIONS: 1. Have the numbers be the tens (Ace = 10, 2 = 20, 3 = 30 and so on) 2. Have the numbers be hundreds (Ace = 100, 2=200 and so on) 3. You can have the students have access to the names of the numbers the first few rounds, then take away that support 4. The dealer is the ultimate judge/jury as to WHO correctly said the name of the number 2 = dos (español) / deux (français)