{"id":2433,"date":"2024-05-31T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:13:25","slug":"el-game-series-07-apples-to-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/2433\/","title":{"rendered":"EL Game Series (07): \u201cApples to Apples\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL game series. These posts are all short introductions to games you can play in the EL. Because learning to play games in English can take a long time, some posts will explain how to play simple versions of games. Other posts tell you why you should use games to practice English. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find other posts you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\uff08<\/em><em>EL\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u9023\u8f09\u3078\u3088\u3046\u3053\u305d\u3002\u3053\u306e\u30b3\u30e9\u30e0\u306fEL\u3067\u904a\u3079\u308b\u30dc\u30fc\u30c9\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3084\u30ab\u30fc\u30c9\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3092\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002\u672c\u6765\u306e\u3084\u308a\u65b9\u901a\u308a\u306b\u3084\u3063\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3046\u3068\u3001\u904a\u3076\u307e\u3067\u306e\u6642\u9593\u304c\u5927\u5909\u304b\u304b\u308b\u304b\u3082\u3057\u308c\u306a\u3044\u306e\u3067\u3001\u3042\u308b\u6295\u7a3f\u3067\u306f\u7c21\u5358\u306a\u904a\u3073\u306e\u5de5\u592b\u304c\u7d39\u4ecb\u3055\u308c\u307e\u3059\u3002\u307b\u304b\u306e\u6295\u7a3f\u3067\u306f\u306a\u305c\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3067\u82f1\u8a9e\u3092\u52c9\u5f37\u3059\u308b\u306e\u304c\u3088\u3044\u304b\u304c\u8aac\u660e\u3055\u308c\u307e\u3059\u3002\u6295\u7a3f\u306e\u30bf\u30b0\u3092\u4f7f\u3063\u3066\u307b\u304b\u306b\u8208\u5473\u3042\u308a\u305d\u3046\u306a\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u3092\u898b\u3064\u3051\u3089\u308c\u307e\u3059\u3002\uff09<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApples to Apples\u201d is a very popular and very simple party game. And usually, it\u2019s a very funny game, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>The basics:<\/em> There are two kinds of cards, red cards and green cards. Red cards have \u201cthings\u201d written on them (commercials, a Venus fly trap, underdogs, etc.). Green cards have adjectives (angelic, aromatic, dim, etc.). One green card is put in the center of the table and each player puts a red card down next to it. A judge chooses the best matching red card, and that player gets a point.<\/p>\n<p><em>For English Learners:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not try to play this game exactly as the instructions say! There are a LOT of difficult vocabulary words, jokes, and pop culture references that you probably won\u2019t understand.<\/li>\n<li>Do have a teacher or EL supporter sort out cards that are too difficult. Another option is to let players trade away cards they don\u2019t understand.<\/li>\n<li>Green cards are mostly very good, useful vocabulary. Focus on them more than the red cards.<\/li>\n<li>Variation 1: Find an easy red card and put it in the middle of the table. Players get 5 green cards. Each player puts the best matching green card down and explains why they chose it (\u201cA _____ is _____ because ____.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Variation 2: Put 6 green cards in the middle of the table. Players get 5 red cards. Use dictionaries or talk with each other so you understand your cards. Then, match one of your red cards to a green card on the table. Give your explanation (\u201cA _____ is _____ because ____.\u201d) and pick up the green card. Each green card is one point. You can get more cards if you are fast.<\/li>\n<li>Variation 3: Just read the cards with your group. Many cards have interesting vocabulary or a joke on them. Can you understand the joke? Learning about humor can teach you about foreign culture, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Final Thoughts: <\/strong>This game is so popular that two EL teachers bought copies of it at the same time. However, because of the vocabulary and pop culture, I think you should focus less on playing a \u201cgame\u201d and more on talking and learning about the interesting cards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2404\" src=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/applestoapples-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/\/applestoapples-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/\/applestoapples-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/\/applestoapples-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/\/applestoapples-994x559.jpg 994w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/\/applestoapples.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL game series. These posts are all short introductions to games you can play in the EL. Becau &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/2433\/\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-games","tag-word-game","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}