Here's a vocab game that big boys and little boys enjoy (and girls too actually!). Fly swat karuta is a good way to repeatedly hear new vocabulary and raises the energy level in a class if students are getting sleepy! Because they all hit the cards every time and the cards stay down, there are no obvious winners and losers and there's lots of repetition. The students can take the teacher's calling job too and, of course, the students have to shout the words as they hit them too!