Best Game Ever: How to make I Have Who Has

I Have Who Has (or Yo Tengo ¿Quién Tiene?) can be a fun whole-class game to practice vocabulary.

You just need at least as many vocabulary words as the number of students in your biggest class, powerpoint, and cardstock. Oh, and scissors or a paper cutter.

How this game is played

Each student gets a card.

Each card has a top section that says "Yo ___ tengo. (insert vocab word here)" and a bottom section that says "¿Quién tiene (insert clipart for a different vocab word here)".

Pick a student to start. They will read the question on the bottom portion of their card.

For example, if you're reviewing school vocabulary, they might say "¿Quién tiene la regla?"

The student whose sentence at the top has la regla in parenthesis will call out "Yo la tengo." And then they will ask the question at the bottom of their paper.

Eventually all students will get a turn and it'll lead back to the student who asked their question first.

You can also set this game up to exclude direct object pronouns and have students answer with "Yo tengo la regla" instead of "Yo la tengo."

It's a listening activity, a speaking activity, vocabulary practice, and a game all in one. 😆

Pro tip: Time the class and see if they can beat their time for one round! Or make it a competition among several classes.

How to make I Have Who Has

1. Open up Powerpoint and start a new blank presentation. You can also do it in Word, but it's not as easy.

2. Go to File > Page Setup.

Change the slide dimensions to 8.5" x 11". Click OK.

It'll ask you if you want to Scale Up or Down. It doesn't matter - we're going to delete those boxes.

3. Delete the title and subtitle boxes. The slide should be completely blank now.

4. Let's make margins with shapes. We will delete these later. Go to Insert > Shapes and choose the square.

Click on the slide and it'll insert a 1" x 1" square. Put the square in a corner and size it to be the length of the slide and 1" wide. Duplicate the square and size it along another edge. Do this along all 4 edges.

5. Go to Insert > Table and select a table 3x2.

Make the shading No Fill, make the line thickness 2.25 (or more - it'll be easier to cut with thicker lines), and the borders All Borders.

Pull the table to the top left corner where your margin rectangles are and size the table across the top of the slide. Do not overlap with your margins.

6. Put the cursor in one of the boxes and highlight all 6 boxes. Make it font size 14 and Century Gothic (or whatever font you prefer). Make sure the font is black and words will be centered.

Hit enter twice in the top row and 4 times in the bottom row.

Copy and paste the box 3 times and evenly space the boxes out in the white space on the slide.

This slide has 12 cards on it. Duplicate this slide to make as many times as you need to make enough cards for your largest class.

7. Grab your list of vocab words you want to use. You need as many vocab words as your biggest class of students. (35 students = 35 vocab words)

Type "Yo ___ tengo. ()" in the top left box.

Copy and paste this phrase in the top box of each of the 4 rows of cards.

Don't worry - we'll go back and add in the vocabulary words in parenthesis.

8. In the bottom box, type "¿Quién tiene ?". We're going to put a clipart image just before the question mark, so keep a space between tiene and the question mark.

Copy and paste the question into the bottom box of all other cards.