Spanish: A jugar "stop"!

Hi everybody, Claudia here,

I would like to share a really fun game your students will definitely enjoy! The game has different names through out Latin America: stop, basta, tuti fruti, bachillerato stop.

The idea is to have a person, the teacher, draw random letters with out looking. When you call out the letter, the students need to fill out a table with different categories with words that start with that letter. Each category is worth 1 point and you add all the points in the row and write it in the total box. The tricky part is that it is a race! the first person who finishes has to say "stop" and everybody else has to stop writing. Then everybody gets to read their answers starting with the student who finished first. If someone is missing a category or wrote a wrong word they don't get that point. You can draw however many letters you wish and end the game by adding the total column to see who won the game.

You can choose to play this in small groups of 4 or do it as a whole class. I attached 2 different tables as examples so you can see how you can adapt the game for your class depending on the level of your students and the focus of the course. For example, you could use different categories such as authors, artists, books, etc. For the country category I always say that they can use a city as long as it isn't in the US.

I hope you like this game and that you use it in your classes! Please let me know how it works for you!