 Let's move on to the second game. The second game is also really fun. It's called ABC Word Chain, ABC Word Chain. So what is this about? This game is really, really great for building vocabulary. And it's also very versatile. You can really use this for very low level students, but also higher level students, depending on the category that you choose for this game. So how does this game work? The teacher chooses a topic and asks a student for a word that fits into that topic. So for example, the topic could be animals. And then you ask a student, OK, who can tell me an animal? And the student says, lion. So you write down lion. And next, the students, they take turns building a word chain. And usually, you can do this in a row. You start with this student, and then next, next, next. Go in a row like that. So the students, they take turns building a word chain by looking at the final letter of the last word in the row. So for example, if you start with lion, the last letter is n, then the next student needs to find an animal that begins with n, right? And also fits into that category, so animals. So in the case of our animal word chain, it could be lion, newt, turtle, elephant, and so on, and so on, and so on. So obviously, animals or things like that is really easy. You can play this with very low level beginner students. But then you can also do other categories. For example, you could do adjectives, even for advanced students, adjectives. Or you could do countries and capitals, depending on what you teach them. You could do literally anything. You can also use this if you, typically, your lesson has a topic, right? So you can do this as a review game. So the topic would be whatever topic that you talked about the last class, like environment. So all the words need to be related to environment, for example, or things like that. Or we recently had Earth Day, right? So you can do that as a topic, everything that relates to Earth or whatever. So you can really, you're really free with this. And it's a really, really fun game. It's not only an icebreaker, but I also really like to use this when it's towards the end of the class. You still have five minutes. You don't know what to do. You can play this game. So it works really, really well. So let's also try this real quick together. I have a piece of paper here. And I chose the category fruit. Also not that difficult. So I'm gonna start with a fruit. I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do just apple. Let's see. And you would write this down. First word. Oh my gosh, can you see that? Okay. Apple. So now into the comments, let's play this game. Continue the word chain. Continue the word chain. So anybody, the first comment that I see that's gonna be the next word in our word chain. And then we're gonna do a couple of more examples, okay? So apple is the first one. Apple. All right, so we have banana. That doesn't fit. It needs to start with E, right? It needs to start with E. Banana starts with B. Then we have non-NC elephants. Elephant doesn't work. It doesn't fit into the fruits category. We're doing fruits now in our example, okay? All right, so let's see. A fruit that starts with E. It's actually kind of difficult. Is there a fruit that starts with E? You can Google it. I'm sure there's a fruit. So a fruit start starting with E. Let's see, can somebody figure it out? Hmm. Yeah, eggplant, vegetable, right. Yeah, is there a fruit that starts with E? Okay, let's Google this. Fruit that starts with E, or somebody Google it. Fruit, fruit that starts with E. See, sometimes it can be really difficult. Okay, there are a couple. Oh, and even eggplant is on there. Is eggplant actually a fruit? No way. Okay, there are a lot of crazy fruits. Anybody find something? All right, Google it and tell me one. There's a lot. Can you Google it? There's a good one. Elderberry, elderberry. Let's do that one. Elderberry. Okay, so you would do that. Yes, elderberry. So now we have Y. This might be more difficult. Y. This is a really bad example. But see, it gets your students thinking. Gets your students thinking. Is there anything that starts with Y? There must be a fruit that starts with Y, right? Yeah, okay. Is that actually a vegetable? I'm not sure. All right, let's do that. Let's do fruits and vegetables, okay? All right, let's do fruits and vegetables. To make this a little bit better. All right, apple. So this is typically how I write it down onto the board. So we have apple, elderberry, yam. Yuzu fruit, that's a good one. Yuzu fruit, yangmei fruit. Okay, good. All right, let's just do yam. Let's do fruits and vegetables. Let's just do it. So next one. Let's do a couple more, three more. Let's do three more. Great, thank you, Juliana. Juliano says mango. Perfect, so I need to start back here. Mango. Yeah, now it's gonna be a little bit easier, isn't it? Okay. Great, mango. Awesome, yes. Orange, perfect. Orange. Oh, this looks like a P, it's an O. Orange. Awesome, and one more with E. Another one with E, yes. Thank you, I just saw that too. Elephant apple, I think I saw that, I Googled it. Or eggplant, okay, let's, Mikey, we said fruits and vegetables. You said eggplant earlier, so let's do eggplant. Eggplant, okay. Okay, and then maybe the last one's tea. Someone with tea, one more, and then we'll just finish. Thanks, you're so fast. Good, Mikey, tomato. Good, or tangerine, yes, nice, taro, good. Yeah, so that's how the game works. And it's really fun. We had a rough start, but yeah. Sometimes if you feel like it doesn't work, you can expand your category a little bit. But yeah, you can adjust this, depending on the level of your students, you can do something easier, something harder, you could do parts of speech, like I said, you could do adjectives only, or more difficult category, or anything like that, right? So this is a great game to get your students started and talking in English, but you could also use this if you have, like I said, five minutes left at the end, you don't know what to do, play this game, it's usually super fun. Yeah, Candice said the game is challenging, but fun. Yeah, sometimes it can be challenging. Even though I thought fruit is an easy category, but yeah, right, fruits start with E, it's kind of hard. So you could do fruits and vegetables, I think then it's easier. Great. Good, okay. This was fun though. Thanks so much for playing, guys. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for Tefal and TESOL training courses. If you liked this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.