Match across three columns
A picture, the new word and the word they already know, lined up in one row. A row counts only when all three belong together.
When to use it
The first lessons on a new topic in a foreign language, when the words need to stick to the things they name. A station in a language classroom where pupils work in pairs. A quick check before a speaking task, so the nouns are ready when they are needed.
What makes it this
Built on the Match them up generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Columns
Players see these headings above the cards. Every pair has one card per column.
In the builder: Pairs & columns
- Drag answers into slots Off
Every first card gets an empty slot beside it and the other cards wait in a bank above. Off, the cards stand in columns.
In the builder: How it plays › How players match
- Connect with lines Off
Players tap a card in each column and a line is drawn between them. Off, they drag the cards in the other columns into line.
In the builder: How it plays › How players match
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Setting the table in Spanish: picture, word, meaning
The pictures stay where they are. Move the Spanish words and the English words up or down until every row shows one thing three ways: drag a card, or tap it and then tap where it belongs. A row turns green only when all three cards match, so watch out for cuchara and cuchillo.
8 pairs
Why the example is built this way
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Every column has a job.
The picture is the meaning, the English is what learners already know, and the Spanish is the exercise. Picture to English is easy on purpose. It gets a row half built, and the row still counts only once the Spanish word is in it.
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The pictures stay put.
With Keep the first column in order on, the pictures are never shuffled and can't be picked up, so the board reads as a list of eight things. Players only move the two word columns, by dragging or by tapping a card and then the place it belongs.
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Two near misses, on purpose.
Cuchara and cuchillo start the same, and learners read vaso as vase or reach for copa. Put in a pair or two like that. The pictures in the first column settle it, so the mix-up is fixed on the board rather than in a test.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Match them up builder and fill in the Pairs & columns tab.
- 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
- 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.