Anti-Word Association
Anti-Word Association is an ESL activity based on Word Association but taking the opposite approach and rewarding non-sequiturs.
In Word Association the idea is to have the students give words which are somehow related to the previous word. In this - much harder - version of the activity the idea is to give out words which have NO association with the previous word.
When it is turned into a game other students can challenge that there is an association and gain points for a good link.
Example Game
At which point a student will challenge, explaining that cars have radios and so there is a good association between these words.
As you can see, this is much harder than normal word association; encourage your students to come up with inventive associations. For example a student might challenge the list saying that street and fellowship are associated since relationships are developed amongst neighbours and this could constitute a fellowship.
Whether this is a valid challenge will depend upon you as adjudicator. You can play this as a team game and award points for challenges which are inventive and/or valid and/or well explained.
