Ordinal Numbers Practice

Spot the odd one out ordinal numbers practice game

Instructions for teachers

Choose which sections below you want to use, and perhaps which words you want to use in each section. You can eliminate any of the words which are not the odd one out, but you could also leave these in even if they won’t be understood as long as the students understand the odd one out. You can also add more words to the majority section if you like, but make sure that there is only word which matches the question in each section. As you read out the question and then the whole list, students count the words on their fingers then try to answer the question with an ordinal number (“The third”, “The third word”, “The third word is different” or “The third word is not a…”)

After doing the activity, you could get students to try to think of as many words as they can in the majority categories below, and/ or make up other similar challenges for each other.

Suggested questions and options

Which one isn’t a vegetable?

• cabbage
• carrot
• daikon
• grape
• potato

 

Which one isn’t a toy?

• doll
• kite
• spinning top
• spoon
• teddy bear
• water pistol

 

Which one is not in this classroom?

• chair
• floor
• light
• robot
• student
• table
• teacher
• whiteboard

 

Which one isn’t a human?

• boy
• brother
• dad
• father
• girl
• mother
• mum
• pet
• sister
• student
• teacher

 

Which one isn’t a job?

• office worker
• pilot
• police officer
• pop singer
• postal worker
• student

 

Which one is male?/ Which one is a man?/ Which one isn’t female?

• aunt
• daughter
• grandmother
• mother
• sister
• uncle

 

Which one is female?/ Which one is a woman?/ Which one isn’t male?

• brother
• father
• father in law
• grandfather
• great grandmother
• uncle

 

Which one isn’t a pet?

• bird
• cat
• dinosaur
• dog
• fish
• kitten
• mouse
• puppy
• rabbit

 

Which one isn’t on a farm?

• chicken
• cow
• hippo
• pig
• sheep

 

Which one is yellow?

• banana
• cabbage
• celery
• egg plant
• grape

 

Which one isn’t a fruit?

• banana
• grape
• lemon
• melon
• octopus
• orange
• pear
• strawberry

 

Which one isn’t food?

• cake
• camera
• egg
• French fry
• hamburger
• pizza

 

Which one isn’t part of your body?

• arm
• ear
• eye
• finger
• foot
• fork
• hand
• leg
• mouth
• neck
• nose

 

Which one isn’t clothes?

• coat
• hat
• jacket
• key
• shirt
• shorts
• skirt
• sock
• trousers
• T-shirt

 

Which one isn’t transport?

• bicycle
• boat
• bus
• car
• motorbike
• ship
• subway
• tent
• train

 

Which one isn’t made of glass?

• glass
• glasses
• sunglasses
• whiteboard
• window

 

Which one isn’t made of wood?

• chair
• cupboard
• floor
• sunglasses
• table
• wardrobe

 

Which one isn’t good?

• beautiful
• clever
• handsome
• happy
• pretty
• strong
• tired

 

Which one is good?

• angry
• fat
• happy
• sad
• ugly

 

Which one is best?

• good
• not bad
• not so good
• okay
• really bad
• so-so
• terrible
• wonderful

 

Which one is worst?

• awful
• fantastic
• great
• not so bad
• not so great
• okay
• really good

 

Which one is most polite?

• Can you give me…?
• Could you give me…?
• Could you possibly give me…?
• Give me…
• Please give me…
• Would you give me…?

 

Which one starts with b?

• bottle
• van
• very
• violin

 

Which one has the letter X in it?

• books
• box
• cakes
• forks
• looks

 

Which one has a different first letter?

• family
• fast
• father
• first
• fish
• food
• hood

 

Which one is countable?/ Which one can finish with _______s?

• beef
• black pepper
• cheese
• green pepper
• milk
• pork
• salt
• soup
• spaghetti
• water

 

Which one isn’t a past verb?

• felt
• fell
• saw
• sew
• stood
• went
• woke

 

Which one has a double letter in the middle?

• hiding
• shaking
• standing
• stopping
• waving

 

Which one has one syllable?

• little
• next to
• pencil
• quiet
• quite
• sugar

 

Which one has two syllables?

• bag
• bed
• big
• book
• box
• car
• close
• desk
• door
• fat
• horse
• listen
• look
• map
• near
• pen
• shelf
• small
• thin
• touch
• young

 

Which one has a different number of syllables?

• basket
• behind
• board pen
• calendar
• carpet
• CD
  happy
• open
• pocket
• poster
• ruler
• sugar
• under
• window

 

Which one is stressed on the first syllable (Oo)?

• in front of
• behind
• under

 

Which one is stressed on the second syllable (oO)?

• eraser
• pencil
• telephone

 

Which one is stressed on a different syllable?

• CD
• light switch
• pencil case
• television
• watermelon