Grammar Game - Taboo

How many grammatical features can your class guess in 2 minutes? This is a word guessing game where two teams take it in turns to guess as many taboo words as possible against the clock (your own stopwatch required). Perfect for a game pre or post a grammar or literacy lesson or just before the GPS SAT paper.

Usually played in my classroom with a couple of pupils selected from one team. They stand with their backs against the IWB and their team have 2 minutes to provide definitions/examples of the chosen grammatical vocabulary. They score one point per correct word defined. Any ‘taboo’ red words provided minus a point, and they are allowed to skip one word. Then the teams swap. If you run out of words, just shuffle the slides around and play again. Any terms the children struggle with, you can pause to do a mini teach before playing again, perhaps duplicating these slides so children have further practise of this word.

The taboo words serve as both a challenge and a helpful prompt to the teams defining the words as they provide accurate examples.