Meme Game for World Language Classes
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Confession: I probably spend too much time on Instagram. It’s definitely a time suck, but it’s also a great resource for new ideas! I got this idea from @mademoisellefallowfield and her post about a review game based on the fun What do you Meme? party game. She was kind enough to share her meme images to help this get started!
It then turned into a team effort through various posts and calls for help. Ideas for the situations were brainstormed in various Facebook groups and on Twitter so thank you to all who contributed ideas! I hope your students enjoy this game!
Watch the Video
Set Up:
- Print the meme images. I would suggest printing on cardstock and laminating.
- Print the situations (pages 3-8). I suggest printing them on a different color cardstock & laminating.
- Cut all of the cards apart.
I would make enough sets so you have enough for a couple groups of students to play. The smaller the group the faster the rounds! I think ideally groups of 4-5 would be best!
How to Play:
Essentially the game works like Apples to Apples, if you’ve ever played it. I’ve included more detailed instructions in the file, but here’s the gist!
The judge flips over one situation card and reads it out loud. Next, everyone participating, except the judge, plays a meme card face down to “react” to the situation. The judge then shuffles the meme cards face down, so they don’t know whose is whose. Finally, the judge flips each meme card over to show them to all playing and selects which one they like best! (Some judges choose funniest, or most ironic – this is up to the judge!).
The winner keeps the situation card, while the used meme cards go to the bottom of the deck. The person to the left of the judge is the new judge, and the next round begins! You can play as many rounds as you want. You can play ten full rounds, or play until one player has 5 situation cards, or you could play 3 short rounds and see who has the most situation cards! There’s a lot of variation.
Game Time!
Now that you have the idea, here is where you can access the pre-made cards and images. PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL ME ASKING FOR ACCESS TO THE FILE. Instead, I’d love it if you followed the instructions on the first page to create your own copy and edit it if you need to!
Blair Richards has put together a FRENCH version! Click here to check out her version!
Frau Leonard put together a GERMAN version! Click here to check it out!
created the ITALIAN version! Click here to check it out!
If you’d like to put together your own version in another language, this version is editable and I’d love to share what you come up with!
Other Games for Spanish Class:
When I posted in the Facebook group looking for suggestions, La Profe Alta shared a link to her game called #Hashtags and I think that it sounds like a GREAT option to play with students! Check out her post here for the resources she shared!
Still looking for more? Check out this post on 5 Review Games for Spanish Class!
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Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. If it helps, you can force people to make a copy of anything in google. Take the url of the doc/sheet/slides and where it starts with “/edit” change it to /copy and keep the permissions as view only. I learned from https://alicekeeler.com/2018/04/07/file-make-copy/
Yes! I love that trick. The main reason I don’t use it on my blog is because when I personally find a resource online I’m considering using I prefer to be able to look at it before having to make a copy! Maybe I should put that link in the file instead? I wonder if that would be helpful to people.
I am excited to try this out! Thank you for sharing your (and your colleagues) hard work! 🙂
You’re welcome! Let me know how it goes!
I could not see the link to print the memes..
Underneath the heading Game Time! It says “here is where you can access” – click the word here. Hope that helps!
Awesome, I was just talking about this with my 8th graders today. Thanks for sharing.
Hurray! Have fun!
This is just awesome!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this and so glad I stumbled upon it on Pinterest! Created a German version for my 8th graders and can’t wait for them to get a chance to play!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZSzhbuyUbYTgsMGO9YqMeEWqlpF92ZyiJDbUpAEyzVM/edit?usp=sharing
Hurray!! I’ll add it to the list above. Thanks so much for sharing your version!
Ciao! Thank you so much for this game! I have translated it into Italian: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g0MA-fj5NvWvxR-lLJ85oaiaZGin3fKQAhz-ObTqYDI/edit?usp=sharing
You’re wonderful! I’ll add it to the links in the post. Thanks so much!
Hi! This is kind of off topic but I need some guidance from an established blog. Is it hard to set up your own blog? I’m not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I’m thinking about setting up my own but I’m not sure where to begin. Do you have any tips or suggestions? Thanks
It’s not hard at all and there are a ton of free resources out there! Give it a Google 🙂
bookmarked!!, I really like your website!
Pretty! This was a really wonderful article. Thanks
for providing this information.
Tried this game out today in my Spanish 1 & 2 classes.
“I’m not going to lie, I’m actually having fun.”
“This game is really fun.”
” I wish we could play this game all class.”
“PROFEEEEE PLEASEEEE 5 MORE MINUTES!”
This game rules. I’m going to have my students send me blank memes to add to the game. I’m also going to have students submit additional “situations” because I know they will LOVE IT.
Thanks again for all the amazing resources!
Srta. Spanish, I love you forever and always for providing me with this amazing resource!
Can’t wait to use this!
I don’t see the download
It’s linked on the section of the page under the heading Game Time!
Hola! Thank you so much for the cards and I can’t wait to begin playing this game. Do you or could you attach any feelings or emotions vocabulary to this ?
Thanks again for all your help and inspiration!
I’m sure you could! I have never tried, but you could probably add it in the vocab on the cards!
This looks great and a lot of fun!
Thanks for sharing.
I hope your students love it!