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• Divide class into teams (ideally heterogeneous groupings)
• During a team’s turn, one member is in the “hot seat” as clue-giver (the role of clue giver rotates with each turn). The rest of the team sits with its back to the screen.
• On the screen, teacher puts up a vocabulary term and four associated
(“taboo”) terms.
• Clue givers (in the hot seat) must try to get its team to guess as many of the vocabulary terms as possible in one minute’s time without using any part of the vocabulary term or any of the five “taboo” words also given on the board
(in part or in whole).
– Any infraction results in being buzzed, the loss of a point, and moving on to the next vocabulary term. The clue giver may skip a word by saying “Skip,” but doing so results in the loss of two points.
– The clue giver cannot use gestures or sound effects (but may sing)
– The clue giver cannot say “sounds like,” “rhymes with,” or use synonymous foreign words
(e.g., “rojo” for “red”)
– The clue giver cannot use abbreviations (e.g., MD for “doctor”)
• The other teams keep time (1:00 minute) and buzz any infractions.
• When the minute is up, the next team starts.
• The teacher or a dedicated score-keeper will record the results. johnwesleywhite.net

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