Four word activities are explained. At the bottom of the post, you will find a handout link. The handout contains a printable for each activity for you to try each of these activities with your students. These word games will have your students thinking ‘out of the box’ in no time at all.
Activity #1
In this activity students put words together to form new words. The trick is they must determine if the word they are adding goes at the beginning or the end of the word.
Let’s start with an easy example.
Add day to:
light —> daylight
every —>everyday
dooms —> doomsday
dreamers —> daydreamers
birth —> birthday
Here’s another example:
Add rot to:
ten —> rotten
or —> rotor
par —> parrot
ate —> rotate
car —> carrot
Activity #2
An anagram is a word or phrase made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase.
Here are a few examples:
bread —> bared, beard, debar
care —> acre, race
tassel —> slates, steals
Activity #3
A homograph is a word that is spelled like another word but is different in origin, meaning, or pronunciation.
Here are a few examples:
bow —> part of a ship
bow —> a weapon that shoots arrows
Have students make drawing of homographs.
Activity #4
A pun is a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested. Many jokes are puns. Write and illustrate a pun.
Handout
Click here to download the handout containing the word activities. I hope your students have fun with these.
2 comments
I enjoyed these, although some may be a bit difficult for my EFL kids. Most of them have the typical textbook vocabulary (limited and b-o-r-I-n-g), and now I’m here to change that! hahaha These will be quite a challenge for them – love it!
Do you have any more?
Thanks for the freebie! 🙂
Author
You’re welcome. You might like last week’s post on word wheels. http://bookunitsteacher.com/wp/?p=5904