Name Something That Gets the Whole Class Talking
"Name an excuse for not doing your homework."
Every student has one. The trick is guessing which excuses made the list, and which one sits at the top.
That is the game. Family Feud is an American television show in which two teams compete to guess the most popular answers to a survey question. Nobody needs to know the show to play: a question goes up, five answers hide behind numbered cards, and teams guess until the board is full or the strikes run out. This week Cool English adds five new editions to one of the most played games on the site, bringing the collection to 21 activities.
The argument is the activity
The board is not where the English happens. It happens in the ten seconds before a team commits to a guess. One student is sure "I forgot" is number one. Another insists "I was sick" beats it. They have to convince each other, agree on one answer, and say it out loud. Then the card flips, and they either celebrate or argue about why the survey got it wrong. Ask a team to rank all five answers from first to last before any card is revealed and you will not be able to get them to stop talking.
Two games in every edition
The older Family Feud boards came as separate Basic and Advanced activities. Each new edition holds both. A toggle on the start screen switches between Beginner and Advanced, and each level has three rounds of its own, which makes six rounds per edition and thirty new rounds in total. In Friends and Social Life, a Beginner round asks what you do at a friend's house. An Advanced round asks what makes a group chat go crazy. Same topic, same format, different language.
Scoring on the board, not the whiteboard
Two team panels sit under the board. Tap plus or minus to adjust a score, add a strike when a guess misses, and watch the point value appear on each card as it flips. Round 3 doubles the points at both levels, so a team that lost the first two rounds is still in it.
Check a guess, or keep the whole key
Running the game from the front of the room raises one question: how do you know the answers? There are now two ways. The first is a text box under the board. Type a guess and the matching card flips, so a teacher can check an answer without leaving the game. The same box lets students play in small groups or at home, typing guesses and seeing which ones land on the survey.
The second is the Teacher Key. Open it in the narrow view beside the game window, or in the wide view to see all six rounds at once. Copy the answers as text, print them before class, or copy a phone link and keep the whole key in your hand while the board fills the projector. Nothing appears in front of the class that should not.
Five topics worth arguing about
The new editions are Friends and Social Life, Work and Jobs, Entertainment and Media, School and Study, and Food and Travel. Every question comes from everyday life, so every student walks in with an opinion to defend.
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