On Jul 21, 2007, at 4:51, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
Yes, Joy B. We used to play a similar game - "My Mother went to Paris and bought a fan", and she had do do fanning with it! The next person said "My mother went to Paris and bought a ??? (with hand movements) and a fan, ...etc. - , then did the fanning with the word fan, and so on. It was hilarious!!!
When we were learning English in high school, our teacher had us play a similiar game. But we didn't go to Paris -- just to the market. And the items we bought had to be in alphabetical order. So we usually bought an apple, then an apple and a basket, etc. By the time we were close to the end of the game, the wagon was an item de-rigeur and, hopefully, someone would have bought a horse somewhere along the way, to pull it :)
That teacher also taught us all sorts of silly songs (like "Ten green bottles, hanging on the wall").
Actually, we played quite a few childish games in highschool in our language classes. The teacher of Russian had someone make her several sets of lotto cards and boards, where, instead of numbers, there were flowers in one set, fruits and vegetables in another, pieces of furniture in another, etc. If she drew a card which matched something on your board, you had to yell "I have an aster" (or "an iris", or whatever it was) before she handed it over to you.
It was an easy and fun way to learn a language, even though we did feel a bit silly acting like 5yr olds at 14 and older.
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