I have been working on a small project to adapt some of the language games that I like to use with general English classes and make them more appropriate for business students.
I had a game which provided students with cards labelled with 'leisure activity', 'job', 'object', 'city', 'animal' and 'famous person'. I replaced these cards with 'office equipment', 'profession', 'city', 'global company' and I kept 'leisure activity' of course these can be changed to suit the topic or subject.
In the game, each student writes down a word relating to the subject on the back of their card. When this is done all of the cards are placed topic upwards (words down) on the table. (I added some of my own cards as there were not many students - teacher involvement may also increase the vocabulary output) Students then select 2 cards of the same topic and compare them.
This worked really well not only as a grammar exercise but also as a discussion starter. There is a lot of student involvement from the start and they can definitely come up with some interesting comparisons.
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