AS-LEVEL / A-LEVEL English Language - Interactive Fun Starter - Linguistic Terms Dominoes

GREAT 10-MINUTE STARTER TO CEMENT THE FOLLOWING KEY TERMS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS:
Narrative stance
Semantic field
Prosodic features
Syntax
Paralinguistic features
Idiolect
Figurative language
Imperative
Graphology
End-stopped line
Interrogative
Enjambment
Phonology
Pun
Colloquialism
Connotation
Dialect
Discourse structure
Genre
Lexis
Idiom

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACTIVITY:
Cut out these dominoes and laminate them (optional). Give individuals or pairs one domino, including you, the teacher.

You begin by reading out the definition on the yellow side of your card. The student who has the term on the blue side of their card that matches with your definition then puts up their hand and says their term out loud. They then read aloud the definition on the yellow side of their card. All class members will have to listen carefully to see if their term matches with the definition they’ve just heard, and so the game continues until it goes full circle, every student has spoken, and you eventually hear the definition that matches with the term on the blue side of your card.

Essentially, you’re playing a large game of dominoes, where students have to match key terms with definitions they hear. Depending on your group’s knowledge/ability, you may work altogether to match up the terms with definitions, or, alternatively, you may decide to play this as an actual dominoes game on the floor.

This is a great 10-minute starter that really helps students to remember key terms and their definitions.