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Sorting words and register

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Sorting words and register

An AR classroom game for Grade 6. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive sorting activity.

Curriculum indicatorท 4.1 ป.6/1

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

  1. Sort the words into groups.

    Sort into

    • compound
    • doubled word
    • แม่น้ำ (mae-naam - river)
    • บ้านเรือน (banruean - dwellings)
    • a cook
    • clothes
    Read the explanation

    A compound makes a new meaning; a doubled word strengthens the old one.

  2. Sort the words into groups.

    Sort into

    • colloquial
    • formal language
    • เยอะแยะ (yoeyae - loads)
    • จำนวนมาก (chamnuan mak - a great number)
    • ไม่ไหว (mai wai - can't manage)
    • ไม่สามารถ (mai samat - unable)
    Read the explanation

    Colloquial language is for talk among ourselves; formal language for writing and for meetings.

  3. Sort the writing into groups.

    Sort into

    • fact
    • fiction
    • a news report
    • a fable
    • non-fiction
    • a novel
    Read the explanation

    Writing that gives facts, and writing that is invented.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Sorts four distinctions: compound versus doubled words, colloquial versus formal, fact-based versus invented writing, and royal versus polite vocabulary. Fits ท 4.1 ป.6/1 (analysing kinds of word) and ป.6/2 (suiting words to occasion and person).

What's in the worksheet

4 questions, a sorting game with four cards each - แม่น้ำ (river) and พ่อครัว (cook) are compounds; บ้านเรือน and เสื้อผ้า are doubled words - เยอะแยะ and ไม่ไหว are colloquial; จำนวนมาก and ไม่สามารถ are formal - News and non-fiction are fact; fables and novels are fiction - เสวย and บรรทม are royal; รับประทาน and นอนหลับ are filed as polite

How to use it in class

A review game before Grade 6 final exams, about 8 minutes in teams; have teams read each card aloud before dragging. Question 1 needs the most thought: give the rule that a compound makes a new meaning while a doubled word reinforces the old one, then ask whether แม่น้ำ is really the mother of water. After question 2, have each child turn one colloquial sentence of their own into formal Thai. You can link it to a class and record it in the gradebook. In English mode, the label doubled word for คำซ้อน can be confused with reduplication (คำซ้ำ), and some cards show only an English gloss (clothes, sleeping); Thai mode is clearer.

Common sticking points

- Question 1: filing เสื้อผ้า as a compound because two words are joined. Point out that เสื้อ and ผ้า are near in meaning, so it is a doubled word. - Question 4: hesitating over นอนหลับ, and rightly: it is ordinary everyday Thai, not a polite form like รับประทาน. Accept the objection, and explain that in this set the polite group simply means words used for ordinary people rather than for the King. - Question 3: filing สารคดี as fiction because the word is new. Mention TV wildlife documentaries.

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