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How to Play ESL Chinese

The ESL Chinese Whispers Game involves splitting the class into teams and having students whisper a word down the line, with the last student announcing the word for points. The game often leads to humorous distortions and competitive blame among teammates. An alternative method includes showing a written text to one student from each team to whisper down the line.

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How to Play ESL Chinese

The ESL Chinese Whispers Game involves splitting the class into teams and having students whisper a word down the line, with the last student announcing the word for points. The game often leads to humorous distortions and competitive blame among teammates. An alternative method includes showing a written text to one student from each team to whisper down the line.

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How to Play the ESL Chinese Whispers Game

• Split the class into two or more teams. Whisper a word into the ears of the first students in
each row. They whisper the word into the next student’s ear in their row until the whisper gets
to the last student in the row. The last student in the row has to say out the word. The team or
teams that get the pronunciation right scores a point. This game is fun because by the time
the word or sentence gets to the end of the class it is distorted.
Competition in this game can be so serious that when a team says a word wrongly,
teammates start throwing blame on a student they thought got it wrong. Time to tell them the
game is not over yet.
An alternative way is to bring a student from each team and secretly show them a written text
and ask them to whisper it down the line up of their teams. Note that students can only
whisper to the next student in line.

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