54 free things that go together cards and word list

Here are some other ways you can use the cards in a fun way!

1. Turn the cards upside down and play a memory game where students turn over two at a time to try to find matching pairs.
2. Show students groups of 3 cards  ( a matching pair and another card). Get them to identify the odd one out and explain why it is different.
3. Play Charades or Pictionary by getting 1 student to come to the front of the class and choosing a card randomly from a shuffled deck. They must then act or draw the word in order for the rest of the class to guess what it is.
4. Play a word association game by taking a matching pair and get your students to think of another word they can associate with the cards. Go round the class with each person taking a turn to add a new associated word.
5. Get your students to choose several cards at random and ask them to make silly sentences with those words. This is great for learning how to construct grammatically correct sentences.
6. Speed reading- see how many words on the cards a student can pronounce correctly in a time limit of 30 seconds.
7. Rhyming. Get your students to think of words that rhyme with each card. You can also find a lot of rhyming cards and activities on the pronunciation archive pages.