About Activity

Overview

Kitchen Cards is a game designed to provide students with practice using common kitchen objects and appliances.

Students can play this game after memorizing only 8 nouns.

Currently, there is one set of 16 cards available for this game.

It's a deduction card game with several different vehicles on each card. Players need to use their verbal skills to deduce which of the cards laid out in front of them matches the "secret card" in their activity partner's possession, by using the sentence structure "Do you see a _________________ in the kitchen?"

 

Activity Presentation Phase Instructions

 

Kitchen Scene Card Example

Kitchen with a fridge,
pan, shelf, & stove

 

Kitchen Scene Card Example

Kitchen with a fridge, oven
pan, sink, stove & shelf

 

 

 

Download Game Materials

 

 

How To Play

Groups: This game is best played in pairs of two participants. One participant in each group will be the asker and the other will be the answerer.

Materials: Two identical sets of the 16 Kitchen Cards are needed for each pair of two participants. This means two sets of Set A.

Time / Game Round: 1-3 minutes

 

  • The asker should lay out one set of game cards in front of them and the answerer should draw one "secret card" from an identical set of cards. The "secret card" will therefore match one of the 16 cards laid out in front of the asker.

  • The answerer can look at the "secret card," but they aren't allowed to show it to the asker. The asker can only learn which objects appear in the kitchen scene on the "secret card" by asking verbal questions.

  • The asker's GOAL is to narrow down which of the 16 cards in front of them matches the "secret card" possessed by the answerer.

    To do this, the asker can use the sentence pattern "Do you see a _________________ in the kitchen?" and systematically insert different nouns into the blank in the sentence pattern.

  • Based on the answerer's 'yes/no' answers, the asker can "eliminate" any cards that logically can't match the "secret card" held by the answerer. The best way to "eliminate" the non-matching cards, is to flip them over face-down. Then the asker can continue to ask more questions to further narrow down the remaining "face-up cards."

  • Each round of the game continues until the asker has narrowed down the cards in front of them to just one card. They can then ask the answerer, "Is this your card?"

 

For more detailed instructions for how to print, prepare, and introduce card-based deduction games like this one, click the blue button below.

 

How To Play

 

Printing & Preparation Instructions

 

 

 

Words to Learn Before Playing

The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE playing this game. There is currently only one set of cards for this activity.

 

Vocabulary Words Used in Activity
Card Set A (16 Cards) fridge, kitchen, oven, pan, pot, sink, shelf, stove

 

Words to Learn While Playing

The following words will be used to the play this game (with every available set of cards). However, these words don't need to be pre-taught. These words can and should be learned WHILE playing the game.

 

Vocabulary Best Learned In Context
Used With All Sets a/an, card, do, don't I, in, is, no, see, the, this, yes, you, your

 

Sentence Patterns to Use While Playing

The following sentences and sentence patterns are recommended for use while playing this game. The best way to teach these sentences, is to use them in context while introducing the game and demonstrating how to play it.

 

Standard Sentences and Sentence Patterns
Do you see a _________________ in the kitchen?
Yes, I do. / No, I don't.
Is this your card?
Yes, it is. / No, it isn't.