

This game provides a physical way to construct sentences that hands-on learners are going to love. Look at all those silly sentences! 6 Ways to Build Language Skills with Silly Sentences The first player to use all his cards is the winner! You can have as many sentences going as you like (AND you can play on the other players’ sentences, too), but if you can’t add a card to any of the sentences in play, you miss your turn. Your sentence is complete, so it’s time to read it out loud: The scary cow jumped over a house. In Silly Sentences, every sentence has to end with a period, so the next player plays his purple period card and completes the sentence. You don’t have an adjective, but you can play a noun card, so you play the word house and your turn is over. This is where the sentence might get very, very silly!
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Player 3 adds a pink preposition card, over, and then it’s your turn again.Ĭan you finish the sentence? Find a lower-case article card, like a, and then pick an adjective card (if you have one) and a noun card to add to your sentence. She decides to add on to yours and plays the verb card jumped. Now Player 2 can either add on to your sentence or start a new one of her own. It looks like you can play an adjective from your pile and add a noun from the table to your sentence. If you don’t have an adjective, just play a noun card with your article. It’s your turn first! Look for an article card to start your sentence-and remember that articles are yellow! You have to begin every sentence with a capital letter, so find an article card with a capital letter-it could be either The or A-and place it on the table.ĭo you have an adjective that you can play? If so, go ahead and play it and then choose a noun to play, too. Lay a card from their pile that cannot be followed by an adjective or a noun.Lay a card from their pile, add an adjective (if they have one), and pick a noun to add as well.Lay a card from their pile and pick a noun to play along with the card they laid.On each turn, players may do one of the following: Now that you have your cards, sort them by color and put each color in a pile. Deal out the remaining cards to the players. Sort out all the orange noun cards and place them face-up in the center of the table so everyone can see which nouns are available to use. Nouns are orange, adjectives are blue, verbs are green, prepositions are pink, articles are yellow, and periods are purple. The first thing you’ll notice is that every card is color-coded according to grammatical function. Get ready for lots of laughter and tons of very silly sentences! Let’s Get Started
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