Match with drawn lines
Terms on the left, meanings on the right, and a line to join each pair. A wrong line refuses to stick.
When to use it
Key terms in the first lesson of a new course, before the ideas that use them. A finance or compliance module for staff, where two terms are easy to confuse. A revision starter on the classroom screen, with learners taking turns to draw a line.
What makes it this
Built on the Matching game generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Drag answers into slots
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: Pairs & columns
- Connect with lines
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: Pairs & columns
- Keep the first column in order
The first column is never shuffled, and in drag mode its cards cannot be picked up.
In the builder: How it plays › How players match
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Business finance: eight terms, eight meanings
Tap a term on the left, then the meaning it belongs to on the right, and a line joins the two. A line that is not a real pair is refused and disappears, so read gross and net carefully.
8 pairs
Why the example is built this way
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Short meanings, eleven words at most.
Every pair sits on its own row and the cards are sized to fit the board, so a long definition comes out small. Keep each meaning to one short line.
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The terms stay in teaching order.
With Keep the first column in order on, only the meanings are shuffled. The list reads as a lesson, and players search one column instead of two.
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One pair that nearly overlaps, on purpose.
Include two meanings a learner has to read carefully to tell apart. A wrong line is refused on the spot, so the near miss is caught when it happens rather than at the end.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Matching game builder and fill in the first tab, Pairs & columns.
- 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.