is not just a card game. It is a collection of 86 pairs of brightly colored
vocabulary cards showing pictures of things you would find in a home,
from knife, fork, and spoon to wastebasket, desk, and computer. The playing cards come bound in a teacher’s book, two to a page, to be cut out and used in many different ways.
The point is not simply learning and using 86 words, useful though they are. The basic value of these games is that students engage each other in discourse
as they ask for cards, search for a match, chatter about a bingo game, or compete to identify, pronounce, and spell a word on a flash card. The book contains lots of suggestions on how to maximize the use of the cards.