Emily Senior

Lovely holiday in Tuscany.

Wonderful weekend remembering Tim.

Cheers to Tim, forever missing from the table.

More pictures of a lovely Xmas week.

Lovely Xmas week with Cathy and Lidia

Wonderful birthday weekend in London. Thanks Em and Joe.

Lovely 60th birthday celebration

Best time of year in Yorkshire, virus or not. What a lovely place Ilkley moor is for a daily walk.

Back together again at last!

This is a spoken word game, no materials necessary. It’s fun for all ages, including adults, and I particularly recommend it as a way for KS1, 2 and 3 children to grow their confidence with words and spellings.

Three or more people can play, each player starts with three ‘lives’. The first player thinks of a word but says only the letter the word begins with. The next player thinks of a word that starts with that first letter but says only the second letter. The third player thinks of a word starting with those two letters but says only the third letter. And so on. Eventually, they will have spelled a word together.

However, players must avoid being the one to say the letter that completes a word, or saying a letter that prevents any recognised word eventually being formed. In either case, another player must issue an immediate verbal challenge, and the challenged player must defend their choice of letter or lose a life. An incorrect challenge loses a life for the challenger.

I suggest using a recognised dictionary (if required) for challenges. No proper nouns are allowed, ie those normally starting with a capital letter.

Example: the first three players pick B - U - R. If the next player then says ‘N’ they would be completing a word, so if another player challenges, the player suggesting the N loses a life. If the player had instead said ‘J’, then this could also be challenged as a word cannot be built from BURJ. However, if the player had said ‘D’, this could be built on to make a word, such as BURDEN or BURDOCK..............................Need more help? Contact me or visit my website. 🔡🧑‍🎓🎓

Primary KS2 onwards, children need to learn the difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. There’s a simple but useful game you can play at home - see Emily’s Tips at Emily English tutor.co.uk🧑‍🎓😇

Ever played consequences? It’s fun for all ages and simple to play. To help children with their GCSE English, make sure you use correct language terminology such as adjective, comma, speech marks and so on. And I’m sure you’ll manage a racier story than my example! Full rules are at -game.