Show students how English words often derive from other languages; explain that those words are called cognates. Play a guessing game by writing an assortment of foreign language words on the board (or listing them on a handout) and asking students to try to figure out what the words mean in English. Take a moment to mention the language from which the words come. Then make a simple game of "Concentration" by using 3-inch-by-5-inch cards, creating pairs of cards such as "sel" (French) and "salt," or "mapa" (Spanish) and "map." As in the traditional concentration game, players keep any pairs they match, and the player with the most matches wins. See some ideas for pairs of words in the Resource list below.