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Productive skill in language is speaking and writing. Writing is often ignored in a group class but writing is also equally important as speaking. To introduce co- operative games into class is effective way for these two productive skills. I'd like to use some games mentioned in this unit to my class. There are some as below. 1. Twenty Questions Twenty Questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity. 2. Noughts and crosses/ tic tac toe 3. Hangman 4. Twister Twister is a game of physical skill, produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves, that has been inducted into the American National Toy Hall of Fame. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. The mat has six rows of large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, green, and blue. A spinner is attached to a square board and is used to determine where the player has to put their hand or foot. The spinner is divided into four labeled sections: left foot, right foot, left hand, and right hand. Each of those four sections is divided into the four colors (red, yellow, green, and blue). After spinning, the combination is called (for example: "right hand yellow") and players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct color. 5. Clue/ cluedo The Classic Mystery Game Cluedo (/?klu?do?/), known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players that was devised by Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham, England. The game was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the UK in 1949. Since then, it has been relaunched and updated several times, and it is currently owned and published by the American game and toy company Hasbro. Snakes and Ladders 6. Snake/ chutes and ladder game Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic.[1] It is played between two or more players on a gameboard having numbered, gridded squares. 7. connect 4 8. Mime/charades Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed. 9. Jeopardy Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. 10. Crosswords 11. Tongue-twisters A tongue twister is a specific sequence of words whose rapid, repeated pronunciation is difficult even for native speakers. 12. Pictionary a charades-inspired word-guessing game