Vocabulary Retrieval Games: The Race Letter and Gallery Walk
Two stages for practicing personality adjectives are described. In "The Race Letter," students have 20 seconds to produce a word starting with a called letter and step forward for correct answers. Words are then posted on walls for a gallery walk where stations involve speaking tasks such as finding opposites, self-rating, and completing sentences.
Key takeaways2
- Difficulty expectations should be set before the game begins and applied consistently.
- The gallery walk incorporates varied speaking formats: group discussion, opposite hunting, scale-based self-rating, and sentence completion.