39 ESL Vocabulary Activities: For Teenagers and Adults - Jackie Bolen, Jennifer Booker Smith 2015

Odd one out
Games and activities for all levels

Skills: Reading/Speaking or writing

Time: 5 minutes

Materials: Groups of words

You can use Odd One Out to review vocabulary from the previous classes.

Write up a few sets of vocabulary words on the whiteboard. I use four in one group, with one of them being the odd one out. For example: orange, cucumber, apple, banana. Cucumber is the odd one out because it's not a fruit.

Procedure:

1. Make 4-6 groups of four words, with one of them being unlike the others.

2. Put students in pairs and have them choose the odd word from each group and also write (or say) why they chose it. For example: Cucumber-not a fruit.