If you're a fan of word of all you're going to love what I'm going to show you today I'm going
to show you a trick that allows you to create one game and then make multiple different games from
that one set of content and I'm not only going to show you one trick but I'm going to show you two
really good tricks that are going to save you a lot of time now if you don't know word wall
there's a video that completely introduces word will on the screen now that you can click on
otherwise if you already know word will learn this trick because it's going to save you a lot of time
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let's get started so let me show you quickly what I'm going to do I'm going to create an activity
and what we're going to do for this is a really simple one I'm going to click on match up and
what I'm going to do is match basically a country and its capital so I'm going to write for example
Spain and then I'm going to write the capital Madrid now I'm not going to carry on doing this
I'm going to just click on item and I'm going to carry on and then I'll come back to the video so
I've done a total of seven different countries with their um capital cities and I've also given
it the title countries and capitals and I'm going to save that game so I'm going to click on done
so that game is now saved but this is what I'm going to do let's just quickly play that game and
see how it works watch this so the game's really simple all we have to do is drag the word in to
the right country very very simple nothing more complicated than that and the game is obviously
a drag and drop activity however what I'm going to do now is I'm going to completely change that
for another type of game so I'm going to click on show all so I've got these templates here let
me just show you that it says switch template I'm going to click on show all and show you all
the different games that I can make and for this one the one that I'm going to choose is going to
be matching pairs so I'm going to click here and now it's made a completely different activity let
me just show you that new activity so if we click here now you see that the game is played like this
and if I just wait a second and I can start so I've now got Ireland
and then Dublin well that was very good I got the first one right straight away now what I'm
going to do now that I've created this new game is I'm going to save it so what I do is click on
edit content and click on duplicate and I'm now going to call this one countries and capitals
card pairs so that I've actually just created a completely new game don't forget again to click
on done so now from one game I've got two games now I'm going to take that idea even further now
I'm going to come over again to my templates I'm going to click on show all and the one I'm going
to use this time is called find the match so I'm going to click on find the match it creates a
completely new game remember it's always a good idea to come over and immediately to duplicate
the new game and obviously retitle it so I'm going to come over here and it's going to be called this
one's going to be called countries and capitals and this one is going to be conclude choose
the right one let's for example but I'm also going to make this a little bit more difficult
so I'm going to add a few more countries let me just fill that in while I stop the video so I've
added some new countries and then I'm going to click on done so this time not actually sorry I've
already duplicated that once that's fine I'll just take that out so this time I've added now a total
or if you've got more games and what I'm also going to do I'm just going to actually come
back to the edit the content because I've made this game slightly more difficult I'm going to
choose that as countries and choose the right one and I'm going to call this level two and this is
another thing that i do is that i often duplicate games then change a few things and then make them
slightly higher level so now we've got a new game we can play the new game here and this one
what happens is that the words come along and you have to choose the correct uh country that goes
with the capital city so we've created a new game but this one is a slightly higher level now I'm
going to show you another brilliant time saving technique that we can use if we want to take the
content of a game change the game completely but then increase the content watch this little trick
that I'm going to do now super quick break from the video just to say if you like this video and
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again come over to show all choose a completely different game and what I'm going to do this time
is do the game show so I'm going to use game show quiz so let's look at how the game show quiz works
so you can see how the game works what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna again save this but
I might just before I save it I'm gonna edit it so I'm gonna click here duplicate and we've got about
12 questions already what I'm going to do this time is I'm going to duplicate
an answer so we've got two with the same answer but simply I'm going to change this now to Moscow
and I'm just going to write the correct answer in as Moscow and now that is correct and I could
do that again I can duplicate the answer and again we've got the same options but this time
I'm going to change that to Warsaw and I can do this and really speed up again the
way that I create the questions for the activities now I've got 14 questions so again a lovely
technique if you want to speed up the creation of these activities and obviously I'd already
uh increase the level of that now to level three and this is a great way of saving yourself time
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