Allow students 10 minutes to prepare a list of 20 key words/terms relating to the topic being studied. The teacher has a large, inflatable mallet. Begin the game by all students standing up and forming a circle. The teacher begins by reading out a key word and picks a student to start the word association by responding to the word with another key word from the topic which is linked to it. Then the next student in the circle has to say another word linked to the previous one and so on. The words show flow quickly and if a student hesitates or repeats previous words they are ‘malleted’ and must sit down. The winner is the last student standing.