111 Learning Journal #6

[Daniel Matthew Kunath]

Following in the vein of sports and games, we had a class meeting which looked at the rules and etiquette for card games, and things to say during a card game. Smaragda taught me some vocabulary including “to shuffle”, “to deal”, “to bet”, “to win”, and “to lose”. She made me spend the rest of class constructing sentences from these words and vocab we already covered in the Sports & Games section. This way, I will be able to do more than just silently play a hand of poker. We learned more than just the vocabulary, but made sure that I could play some of the more common card games played in Greece. Backgammon is very popular in Greece, so we learned a few terms about it as well. Θέλεις να παίξομε χαρτιά;