Card Game
These cards are a great way to review the five senses plus asking yes/no questions in past
or present tense. It is also a great way to introduce the phrase 'be like' as in 'tastes like',
'sounds like', or 'feels like'.
There are three ways that you can use these cards to play fish. The simplest is just to have the
students simply ask:
S1: Do you hear someone knocking?
S2: Yes, I do. (Or: No, I don't. Go fish.)
A little more challenging is:
S1: Did you hear something/anything?
S2: Yes, I did. (Or: No, I didn't. Go fish).
S1: Did you hear someone knocking?
S2: Yes, I did. (Or: No, I didn't. Go fish).
Finally, the most challenging way, which happens to be the way I prefer to play this game:
S1: Did you hear something/anything?
S2: Yes, I did. (Or: No, I didn't. Go fish)
S1: Did it sound like someone knocking?
S2: Yes, it did. (Or: No, it didn't. Go fish)
I prefer this way because it provides the teacher with an opportunity to teach the important associations:
hear --> sound like
taste --> taste like
smell --> smell like
see --> look like
touch --> feel like
(feel --> feel like)
And if you use the six sense cards:
sense --> seem like
feel --> feel like
These cards can also be a great lead in for other topics that can be combined with the
individual senses such as what materials things are made from and touch: (It feels like rubber.
It feels like wood). Another example is spices for cooking and taste. (It tastes like pepper. It
tastes like garlic).