Collection of games

Level: elementary

Age: children

Group size: whole class or groups

Use: to brush up known vocabulary

This is an old and simple vocabulary game. Somebody says: I spy with my little eye something beginning with B. Others guesses what the object is. Susan: The blackboard? No, no the blackboard. Dick: A biscuit? No, I can’t see a biscuit. Stephen: Dick’s ball? Yes that is right, Dick’s ball. It then becomes Stephen’s turn. He thinks of something beginning with another letter, e. g. S. I spy…something beginning with S. The object must be visible in the room or in a wall picture.

If anyone dislikes spy because it is not among the ten thousand most frequent words in printed English or because of its associations, then the following rhyme can be substituted: One – two – three, what can I see? Something in this room (or garden) beginning with…
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