Actually, I've been completely absorbed in this article about this wonderful game: "Look in the lake". Not only dose this game effectively help both students and teachers in listening and correctly pronouncing, but it's a great chance for students to get familiar with "polite language". Unfortunately, I wonder why the author upload for us the instruction how to play?! I really wish that the author would find the tips for us!!!

However, if anyone who wants to organize this game in his or her class, I have this idea as a "contemporary solution". When I studied in VATC, an American teacher organized a similar like this. In our class, there was 15 people (including me), our teacher gave each a deck of 5 cards (each has pictures and words like the above cards). He has a sheet in which he wrote down all the words in 15 decks. He pronounced any particular word and if any one who has this word has to loudly "Yes, teacher. I have it". If anyone who can't hear clearly, it'll be his great mistake not to carefully learn some effective questions like: "Pardon, sir, could you repeat that word?" or "Sorry, but I'm not quite clear on what you've pronounced", etc. If anyone has finished all 5 cards, he/she wins and has a small prize like a VCD or DVD for studying English or a free card of "Online Studying Engish", or sometimes if the teacher's been out of money, just a candy or tasty cake.

That's all for my opinion, if anyone finds it interesting, try it yourself!

A strange as well as interesting method of teaching English that I’ve hac chance to know. If you ask me, I wish that I can try this. I can see this kind of activity will work well, it is so useful: To help students pronounce clearly, listen carefully, distinguish words with similar consonant and vowel sounds, distinguish singular and plural nouns with /s/, /z/ and /iz/ ending, practice polite language…Unfortunately, this activity hasn’t been applied in our class yet. I will wait.

oh man, where is my comment???
This is another evidence for using game in learning and teaching. This kind of game is really useful, it can attract the learners easily. We all know that pronunciation is one of the most important part of English. Every students want to have pronunciation. It makes they sound like native speaker. It is also easier for native speakers to understand them. Having a good pronunciation help them to be more confident in communication. However, it is not easy to teach pronunciation. I wonder where we could find these cards or buy them. We can make a collection to use for our teaching in the future.

It is really a good method to practice English pronunciation of words having similar sounds, to reinforce common sentence patterns, and to use polite language. But I wonder why we have to practice the polite language (turn-taking, repetition, clarification, confirmation, thanking, showing appreciation). It is the only point I’m not very clear about this method.

This game is quite interesting. However, I think that it is also too complicated. Moreover, it seems that the rule is quite difficult for students who have low level of English.
To enhance this game and make it more interesting, I think that we can have more reward for those who have correct answers and punishment for those who have wrong one.
To tell the truth, this game really helpful for us to improve the speaking skill and vocabulary of the students. They will also have some relaxing moments in the English class, too.