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wash, buy, throw away or keep your clothes.

Variation 2:
A central adjective can be associated with nouns, for example,
'warm' could be linked with: day, food, hand, and personality. Or a
verb can be associated with adverbs, for example, 'speak' can lead to:
angrily, softly, clearly, convincingly, sadly.

Variation 3:
For more advanced classes a word root can be used as the
starting point, such as 'part' (leading to words like: partition,
depart, partake, participate, impart). Alternatively, use prefixes
(be-, de-, e/ex-, in/im-, inter-, per-, pro-, sub-, syn/sym-, trans-,
etc.), or suffixes (-ant/ent, -able/ible, -ful, -ous, -merit, -ness, -tion,
etc.).

Variation 4:
As a follow-up, erase everything on the board, except for
the central word. Challenge your class to recall and write down as
many of the brainstormed words as they can

Categories

Listening comprehension of isolated words.

Procedure:
Ask the students to draw two or three columns on paper, and
give them a category heading for each.
For example, food and drink, or animal, vegetable, mineral.
Then dictate a series of words, which can fit into one of the
categories. They have to write a cross or tick in the appropriate
column for each word you dictate. For example, the headings
'Food' and 'Drink', and the items 'tea, apple, bread, coffee, cake,
water, egg, meat' might result in:

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