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[tomato]

My job recently entailed writing instructions for playing go fish.
I figured that a flowchart would explain the game more clearly than a block of prose.
So this is what I came up with.
If you find this useful for yourself, be my guest.





Thanks to Google searches, any necessary illustrations are easy to find.
I prefer to put the illustration on only one card of each match.
That way, I am assured that the students are learning to read without the cues from the illustrations.

The go fish game can be applied for many different purposes.
These are just a few purposes which come to mind:

�� phonetically similar words (bat, cat, mat, rat)
�� words of the same part of speech (over, under, before, after)
�� words in the same category (colors, numbers, members of the family)
�� homonyms (see/sea)
�� synonyms (big/large)
�� antonyms (up/down)

Moreover, a go fish deck can be used for other games, such as:

bango: This is, essentially, bingo without the bingo board.
Deal out one of each match, keeping the other card for each match for yourself.
If they do not come out even, discard the remaining cards.

Show each card. The player with the matching card hands it in.
The winner is the first player to run out of cards.

concentration: Lay the cards face down at random.
Each player takes a turn turning over two cards in search of a match.
If the player does not find a match, that player turns the cards back over.
If the player finds a match, that player takes both cards and gets another turn.
The winner is the player finding the most matches.

old maid: Discard one card without looking at it.
Deal out all the remaining cards.
Each player discards any matches.
Each player takes a turn drawing a card from his/her neighbor.
If that card results in a match, that player discards the match.
The game continues until all matches are eliminated and one player is left with the card without a match.

This game seems to be already familiar in Korea.
The Sharp electronic dictionary calls it ������ �̱� [���],��
but Dong-a's Prime Dictionary calls it "���� ���.��

Oh--before you give me credit which I don't deserve, my director checked my Korean flowchart, and she changed just about everything.
Perhaps she, and not I, should be considered the author of the Korean version.

[ddeubel]

Thanks Tomato.....seems to work. A few "very fine" things not mentioned but that is probably for the better....

I use the game big time with the elementary book cards!!!! One big warning---- best to let the students only play in pairs........If the group is bigger there is downtime and the students start talking Korean or looking around elsewhere. Plus there is more talk time/student that way.

I guess if you run the classroom "strictly" you can get away with them playing in 3 or 4s but I wouldn't. My warning.

DD

[tomato]

I hear what you're saying, Ddeubel.
If a class behaves very well, I allow the class to split in half and play two concurrent games.
I have only had a few classes which behaved that well.

[Demophobe]

Thanks tomato. You have a great site there too.

[happygirl]

another great idea! thanks, after 9 months i'm running short of new stuff