Do you remember the story of Hercules cleaning King Augeas'stables? Hercules drove a river though the stables and cleaned them in a day. Every
now and then passing the eleven plus could seem to a task of unending
proportions. Perhaps a little game could
help.
Gather the family together. If possible add a favourite
relation of two. Collect the necessary supplies – paper, pencils and a dice.
Sit your family around the table – with a sheet of paper in the middle. Mark a
grid onto the paper.
The first player, hopefully the eleven plus candidate,
throws the dice and thinks of a word with the same number of letters as shown
on the dice. The word is written either horizontally or vertically.
The second player throws the dice and adds another word
which connects with the first. By now your astute relation will yell: “This is
just like scrabble!”
Each letter is worth a point. If a player cannot add a word
to the grid he or she loses a point. You hope that the game has become quite
complex by the time the candidate has a second chance.
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W
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E
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E
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N
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If player three, for example, had thrown a three then the score
would be four – with a point for the `O’ as well as the `P’, the `E’ and the `N’.
The combination of the game can be endless – with words to
be taken only from mathematics, or only from the kitchen or the garden or wherever!
Enjoy!
