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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
With this in mind, we will be offering ideas for games that you can play with your family or housemates in the coming weeks to practice your English.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
On today’s program we will talk about Jeopardy, a favorite game of English learning classrooms.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
The idea comes from the American television game show in which players give their answers in the form of a question.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
You may have even seen the show in your country. In Jeopardy, players choose from categories and try to win money, like this: (Player) I’ll take Countries for $100.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
Notice that the answer came in the form of a question: “What is Japan?” You will also note the host read a fact in statement form.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
We will call those facts clues. Playing Jeopardy at home is a good way to get experience forming questions in English.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
It also can improve your speaking and listening skills, and help expand your vocabulary Now, let’s talk about how to play the game.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
You will need three or more English learners one person to serve as host and the others to play.* There are two ways to play the game: the traditional
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
way (with answers in question form) and the easier way, which you can find on our website at learningenglish.voanews.com.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
The first step is to decide who the host will be. His or her job is to gather clues for the game.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
The host also reads clues to the players, and keeps a record of points won. To play the game, you will need five separate categories.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
For example, you might choose: Countries, Animals, Foods, Sports and Actors.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
For each category, choose six clues, from easy ($100) to difficult ($600).
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
The host will need to keep the clues on a computer screen or write or print them on a small piece of paper.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
To set up the game, you will need a board or large piece of paper. (If using paper, put it on a wall for all the players to see.)
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
On the large paper or board, make a grid like the simple design shown on our website.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
Write the categories on the left of the grid and the money amounts across the top.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
For the full directions on how to play the game, to see how to make the grid, and for links to clues that are already prepared, go to our website.
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Grammar Games at Home: Jeopardy
And join us again soon for more grammar games you can play at home.
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
English has been called one the most difficult languages for non-native speakers to learn.
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
One reason is that English has so many rules and almost as many exceptions of those rules! Sometimes, this leaves learners confused
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
For example, the order of words in a sentence can be tricky.
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
Another reason English is hard to learn is that the pronunciation of its words cannot always be predicted by their spelling.
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
And, maybe the worst thing of all is that there are many idioms or expressions, in English. You could say we use idioms like they're going out of style
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Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning Root Words
So, it is comforting to know that learning root words can help a non-native speaker use English. A root word is the most basic form of a word.
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