Title: MASH
Type: Paper activity
Target: House Vocabulary
Materials: Flashcards
Procedure: Now we are going to play one of my favourite games when I was a
kid. It is a fortune game. It is called MASH and each letter stands for
something. M=Mansion (a very big, huge house like a castle), A=apartment,
S=shack (very small, not a good house), H=(Normal House). This game tells
you what kind of house you will live in, in the future. Then we have some other
categories, like what kind of rooms you can have in your house. We will use 3
categories: Bathroom, Living Room and Bedroom. You choose 3 different
options for each category which should be the number of those rooms in your
house. (For example: 3 bedrooms, 0 bedrooms, 1 bedroom). Then one person
makes small marks on a paper until the other person says stop. The number of
marks equals the magic number. Then you count through all the options until
you get to the magic number and then you cross that option off. Keep going
until only one option in each category is left. Then you will have your fortune.
(Show an example) Okay everybody find out your future house fortune! Now
please tell me what kind of house you will have. (students should say I will live
in a mansion with 3 bedrooms, 0 bathrooms, and 2 living rooms)
Comments: The initials and content of the game could be used to meet the
requirements of other limited topics such as jobs or countries and cities (i.e.
what will you be when you grow up, or where will you live, etc.)