Mary Errey created a board game called «Word Up»
for learners of English. Now she explains where the
name of the game came from. There was a hit song
called «Word Up»
B11 in the 80s by an _____ group called Cameo. AMERICA
B12 They were African Americans and _____ the APPARENT
phrase was part of their particular idiom, and still
is I believe. It’s used either as a sort of general
greeting, especially among men,
B13 or as a way to indicate _____ with someone. So, this AGREE
was how I first heard it, and when I was trying to
come up with a name for the game it got added to
the list of
B14 _____. And in the end, it seemed like the best one POSSIBLE
I had. It had reference to language, obviously, but
didn’t,
B15 sound too _____ or BOOK
B16 _____. It was short and simple, so thought it’d be ACADEMY
easy to remember, and it had a positive ring to it.
So that was the one I settled on.
