Teachers and learners of English can now access a great resource for practising English on Facebook. Pic-Your-Wits is a fun vocabulary game where you guess what the picture is as it becomes gradually less pixelated. The faster you guess, the more you score. The game takes advantage of all the social features of Facebook – you can challenge your friends to play, see how well they have scored in the game’s league table and put in a request for new picture sets.

Each month Pic-Your-Wits responds to learners’ requests and publishes a new set of vocabulary to challenge them. As well as presenting and recycling vocabulary, Pic-Your-Wits also helps learners to practise further what they’ve learnt by pointing them in the direction of more activities on the LearnEnglish website that relates to the current picture set. The first picture set is of animals, so this month learners have the opportunity to read and listen to stories, poems, magazine articles – all related to this theme.

Next month the game will expand with another picture set and more suggestions for activities that will help learner build their language skills.

For those teachers and learners of English who don’t have (or want) a Facebook account, Pic-Your-Wits can also be played and fully enjoyed on the British Council’s site for English learners.

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