Sentence Race

Sentence Race is a great game for getting students to generate sentences.

Characteristics

 * Level: Easy to advanced
 * Number of people: 1 - 40 (Works well with groups of, for example, 10 groups x 4 people)
 * Activity Type: Writing, Sentence Creation

Game Mechanics
The students are given a word, for example "dog".

Students are given 2 minutes to do two things:
 * 1) Think of a sentence containing the target word.
 * 2) Write the sentence on the board

Scoring

 * Students are awarded for each sentence containing the target word. (Here students are encouraged to write more sentences.)
 * Students are awarded for each word in a sentence containing the target word. (Here students are encouraged to write longer sentences.)

Resources

 * timer (optional... but very helpful)
 * blackboard / whiteboard