Teaching spot: Dictionary game

DICTIONARY

This game’s objective is learning new words. We just need a dictionary. The first player looks up in the dictionary an unknown word and pronounces it aloud. The player with the dictionary will take the roll of the "reader."

The other players , in pairs, write down in a piece of paper the hypothetical definition of this vocable (it doesn’t matter if there is no relationship with the real meaning, but the definition has to look real).
All the definitions are given to the "reader", who reads them aloud to be voted.
After a minute thinking about the definitions, each team vote the option which they think is the real one (they can’t vote their own definition).
Then we look for the most voted one.

The points will be given as follow:

- 5 points for the most voted definition if it is not the true one and 10 points for the "reader" because his chosen word wasn't rightly guessed.
- If the word has been successfully guessed, 10 points will be remove from the “reader’s” account.

The team that gets the highest score is the winner.

Some examples of words can be rack, crank, switch...