Card Game · Children's Game

Picturesque Word Games

(Text by the publisher) Bildschöne Wortspiele is a compact collection of 8 card games that deal with images and associated words. The set contains 100 cards (90 photos, 6 jokers, 4 blancs), 4 cards with suggestions for w

1–8 players10 minages 8light difficulty

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What is Picturesque Word Games

The principal mechanism is very simple: You form compounds by combining the words that you associate with two or more photos. A photo doesn’t represent only one word. For instance, for the photo that shows an eagle you can also say "bird", or "beak", or "head", or "feather", or "claw", or "animal" and so on. Thus, in combination with other cards in the set, you can form numerous words such as "bird bath", "bird table", "frigate bird", "game bird", "pack animal", "stuffed animal", "animal farm", "animal world" and so on.

The games can be played on all language levels. The selection of the photos ensures that you can form a large number of compounds within the range of basic vocabulary. Also, you can extend the linguistic range deliberately in terms of code, style and special languages.

In educational contexts the games cannot only be used for vocabulary training. It is also possible to train more subtle competences such as abstract thinking (eagle > bird > animal), the perception of paralleles and differences (bird: bird of prey vs. singing bird), style and narrating (you put down one card after another and let narrate / narrate yourself).

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