the basis of the sentence. Players are free to add any other words that come to them in expressing their chosen meaning. The group then decides whether they have produced one complete sentence, and whether it makes sense. Teachers can experiment with their students in making their own packs of lexical words.
The games These involve the learners in generating their own communications, speaking these aloud, and then writing them down. Some aspects of the games are explored below.
Clauses: in the course of the game students can discover the parts of a sentence, and learn how these relate to each other. Students just need the language to be able to talk about it.
Here are some of the sentences you could make with these two lexical words. The game allows you to add any words you like to create your sentence.
1. Michael was crossing the road. 2. Michael saw his friend crossing the road with a dog. 3. Michael and the dog were crossing the road. 4. Michael and his dog waited before crossing on the Zebra.
Link and bond When we first made the game we just made cards with nouns and verbs, set in a picture clue. We tell the players they can use the word any way they like. The picture is only a context, a clue to the word. It can be used in other ways as they wish. We asked the players to take two of these cards and make up a sentence using them. As far as possible we used words that referred to things that were familiar, so there are pictures are of shops, traffic and people, for example.
We then made a set of conjunctions, words that we use to link clauses together, (linking and bonding). By putting a Link and
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