Put a code on the board. Pupils join on whatever they have in their hands. Everyone plays every round — nobody is knocked out — and at the end you get a list of the words the class actually got wrong.
It is lawn bowls. A Spanish word appears — la silla — and the four circles on the green are possible meanings. You aim your wood at the one you believe, and how well you deliver it decides how close you finish. Land on the right circle and you score; miss and you are somewhere you did not choose.
Then the next player bowls, and can knock yours out of the way. That is the part that makes a class shout. The vocabulary question is doing the teaching; the bowls is doing the wanting-to-play-again.
Some ends ask for typing rather than a choice — a plural, a verb form, a gap to fill — so a pupil cannot get through a whole match by recognition alone.
Open the class page
Pick a level and how many ends. You get a four-letter code in very large type, made to be read across a room.
Put the code on the board
Pupils go to clashionary.com, tap Join a class, type the code and their name. No account, no email, no sign-in.
Press Start round
The class is drawn into rinks of three automatically. Odd numbers are handled; nobody is left without a game.
Watch the board
Live scores for every rink and a league table, on your screen, which is the thing to project.
Start round two, and three
Rinks are redrawn each round by current standing, so the matches stay close and nobody spends a lesson being flattened.
Make the last one The Final
One checkbox draws the top three together while everyone else watches it on the board.
A knockout would bench two thirds of a class after the first round, and it would do it to the pupils who most need the practice — the weakest get eliminated first and then have nothing to do for twenty minutes.
So it is scored as a bowls league instead: three points for winning your rink, one for coming last, shots as the tiebreak. Everybody plays every round. The competition is in the table, not in survival.
At the end, the board shows Worth going over: the words the class got wrong most often, with how many pupils missed each one. It copies as plain text, so it goes straight into your next starter or a worksheet.
| Word | Meaning | Missed by |
|---|---|---|
| la decepción | disappointment | 11 of 14 |
| sensato | sensible | 9 of 14 |
| el éxito | success | 8 of 14 |
| los jueves | Thursdays | 5 of 14 |
| la sopa | soup | 3 of 14 |
An example, not real pupils. The false friends sit at the top of that list in almost every class, which is generally the useful part.
If your school needs this in writing for a DPIA, everything above is the whole of it — there is no other processing to describe.
Spanish, at three levels: everyday nouns with their article, common phrases, and false friends. 168 words in all — several lessons' worth rather than a scheme of work.
Yes, for playing. Three pupils sharing one device can play as a team on one seat, which some classes prefer anyway.
They rejoin with the same code and name and drop straight back into the round in progress. A refresh does not create a second pupil.
Ninety at once has been tested on the live server; thirty is comfortable. A whole year group in a hall is fine.
Not yet. You choose the level. A custom word list is the most-requested thing and the next one likely to be built — say so if you want it.
Nothing. There is no paid tier and no plan to put one in front of a classroom.