Name as many Christmas words as you can before the timer runs out. A fast vocabulary game that shows both the teacher and the class exactly which words are already there and which are missing.
Name as many Christmas words as you can before the timer runs out. The game takes two minutes and tells you more about a class than a written test: which words come instantly, which arrive with effort, and which nobody has at all.
Run it twice in a term – at the start of the Christmas topic and at the end – and the second round is visibly longer, which is the most convincing evidence of progress a young class ever gets. In pairs, one student names and the other keeps score, so everyone speaks rather than waiting for a turn.