I was watching an episode of Running Man yesterday (yes, I've started watching on and off, because they've become better again. And I was extremely awed by their fan-meet concert last year), and they played a rather interesting game.
They were split up into teams of two, and in this game, the question would be a word with two syllables. The first player needs to give another word with two syllables, starting with the same letters as the word from the question (for example, the question is b-- c--, the answer needs to be another word b-- c--). Then the second player needs to give another two-syllable word, this time with the beginning letters inverted (c-- b--).
It's actually a very simple game, but since there is a time limit for coming up with the words, so many mistakes were made under pressure! They came up with a lot of non-existent words :P
I felt that this game could also be played in Malay, since there are well-defined syllables (unlike English). I tried out a few:
Question: paku: Answer 1: peka, answer 2: kapal
baca: beca, cabar
ada: adu, dua
These are the ones that worked... for the first few words that I tried, I actually had the same problems that they had while playing; I blanked out and took ages to find a word! And then there was ayah... the first word was easy (ayam), but flip it around and I cannot find an answer at all! (y-- a--; maybe there is really no such word?)
It occurs to me that it could be a rather fun game for children to improve their vocabulary!
They were split up into teams of two, and in this game, the question would be a word with two syllables. The first player needs to give another word with two syllables, starting with the same letters as the word from the question (for example, the question is b-- c--, the answer needs to be another word b-- c--). Then the second player needs to give another two-syllable word, this time with the beginning letters inverted (c-- b--).
It's actually a very simple game, but since there is a time limit for coming up with the words, so many mistakes were made under pressure! They came up with a lot of non-existent words :P
I felt that this game could also be played in Malay, since there are well-defined syllables (unlike English). I tried out a few:
Question: paku: Answer 1: peka, answer 2: kapal
baca: beca, cabar
ada: adu, dua
These are the ones that worked... for the first few words that I tried, I actually had the same problems that they had while playing; I blanked out and took ages to find a word! And then there was ayah... the first word was easy (ayam), but flip it around and I cannot find an answer at all! (y-- a--; maybe there is really no such word?)
It occurs to me that it could be a rather fun game for children to improve their vocabulary!
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