Playing Card to Review Things in the House

I think, you are really familiar with card to play poker or solitaire. They are usually consisted of Jack, Queen, King Cards, and others. In this topic of learning English, teacher would like to make them in different way (I mean they are really the simple ones and use paper material that is available around) and basically they are the same. 

To teach vocabulary for children or elementary students, we must prepare a set of fun activities to help them memorizing and identifying the words. If we give them some words in a traditional way, likes dictating the words and writing the meaning, they will soon forget the words the next day. That is why giving the children little experience of learning, I think it is better. 

Today, my students around 8-9 years old learn about the things found in the house. They learn about parts of house, such as living room, bed room, kitchen, and bath room. Teacher prepares a set/a pack of cards divided into four categories. The usual set of cards consist of hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs. In this vocabulary game, teacher changes the four categories into kitchen, living room, bed room, and bath room. Each category is consisted of fourteen (14) things found in each room, starting from card number 1 to As card. Each number of pips on the card determines the rank of the card when they play the cards. 

The procedures:

1. First, students learn vocabulary about things in the house. In this activity, teacher may choose various activities, like worksheet or flashcard. In my classroom, I like using real objects first, then they do a worksheet. 

2. After that, students sits in a circle. If the classroom has more than six students, teacher may divide them into groups. The turn of players may be a clockwise rule or they sit based on the result of scissor-paper-rock rule. 

3. Teacher shuffles a set of cards and spreads them the for each player. He/she will hold four to five cards and teacher put a card as the 'opening '. The remaining cards are put in a pile in the middle of the players.

4. The first player must take one card out that suits to the 'opening' card, for example if the first card is 'doll' (thing in the bedroom), the players must take a card (in their hand) about things in the bedroom. If he/she does not have the card corresponded, he/she must take another/other cards in the pile. 

5. The player, with the highest rank of card for each round, has a chance to take his/her card out in the middle. 

5. The turn goes on clockwise, and the player who gets rid of his/her cards first will be the winner of the game.