We love to spend a lot of time playing games and socialising in our study circle and also, because most of our participants are English language learners, we need to spend a bit longer memorising the quotations. I have come up with a few games that assist in the process of memorising quotations and also increase the spirit of fellowship in the group.

Prepare: For this game we used candy (and lots of it!) but you can also use raisins, or any other small treat, or even tokens (stones, matchsticks...) which can be redeemed for something at the end.

Rules of the Game:

1. Players sit in a circle and the tutor holds a big bowl of treats (but sacrifices winning any of them).

2. The tutor starts off with the first couple words of a quotation (so that everyone know which quotationthey are referring to) and then passes the bowl to the next person who must say the next word in the quotation. If they say the word correctly they can take a treat from the bowl, if not they must forfeit a treat and the tutor says the word.

3. The bowl is then passed along to the next person who then says the next word in the quote...and so on, until the quotationis finished.

You can do this with all the quotations from a section, but keep in mind that if you are doing long quotations you need to have a lot of candy, or you could change the rules such that each person has to say the next three words...or something. You can also select other people to be game leaders, other than the tutor. Participants in my study circle enjoyed this game because it was less daunting than having to recite an entire quotationfrom memory, and yet it helped them to memorise the quotations better (and we got to eat candy!!!).