Once children finished making card pairs, the children are divided into groups and play with cards other than those they themselves made. We formed several small groups. All sentence cards went to teachers while picture cards were laid on the table/floor.
We asked the teachers to join one of these groups and serve as a reader in the group. Children find and get a picture that matches the sentence the teacher reads, among many other picture cards. This kind of game was totally new in Cambodia, but while playing, children gradually understood how to play. Eventually they got very serious to find and get as many cards as possible, and every group was having a heated time!
There are 33 consonants, but we'd omitted Khmer alphabets that would be difficult to start a word or sentence with, and we'd also slightly increased the ones that would be easier for children to think of words with. Therefore, two or more cards that start with the same letter could be found in every group. If one takes a wrong card, he/she loses a turn. Hence they need to carefully listen to what the teacher reads so that they won’t end up picking up the wrong card that doesn't match the sentence. They were actually enjoying to concentrate.
We prepared a small prize for the child who got the most cards in each group. Instead of prizing the number 1 child in their grade or in the whole school, we gave it out to the winner child in each group, at every game. We wanted as many children as possible to feel a sense of accomplishment and the joy of being recognized. The prize was a pretty designed paper-eraser. In some countries, erasers that are elaborately modeled after sweets and animals are available. We chose this because such a novel and pretty thing would be nice to receive, and it would also be helpful for their learning.