New game
Download
SCORM download
To be used in an LMS (Moodle, Blackboard...)
Regular download
To be published on a website or blog.
Downloading games is an exclusive feature for users with an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.
Get your Academic Plan or your Commercial Plan now and start integrating your games into your LMS, website or blog.
Get Academic Plan
If you wish, you can download a demo game here and test its integration:
Share game
Fill in the Blanks
Fill in the Blanks

Dancing through generations

Integrate it into your platform
G. Classroom M. Teams
You can integrate the game into an LMS compatible with LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3 such as Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard. This way, the scores will be automatically saved into the platform’s gradebook.
Download
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can integrate into Google Classroom with your current Plan.

To integrate as many games as you want in Google Classroom, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can integrate into Microsoft Teams with your current Plan.

To integrate as many games as you want in Microsoft Teams, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
Downloading games is an exclusive feature for users with an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get your Academic Plan or your Commercial Plan now and start integrating your games into your LMS, website or blog.

If you wish, you can download a demo game here and test its integration:

Get Academic Plan

Dancing through generations

Fill in the Blanks

Played 0
Create copy

About this activity

Read an article from the New York Times and fill in the gaps

Created by

Adriana Pérez Vieira
Adriana Pérez Vieira
Spain

Download the paper version to play

Make your own free game from our game creator
Compete against your friends to see who gets the best score in this game
Make challenge

Top Games

 %
Anonymous
Anonymous
 %
%
%
You have exceeded the maximum number of games you can print with your current Plan.

To print as many games as you want, you need an Academic Plan or a Commercial Plan.

Get Academic Plan
Print your game
Dancing through generations
 

Fill in the Blanks

Dancing through generationsOnline version

Read an article from the New York Times and fill in the gaps

by Adriana Pérez Vieira
1

dancing I life remember sky midnight family floor shoulder who movie black me taught hobbies living activities marriage hand blonde friends teenager slow

As the holiday break comes to a close , think about how you spent your time . Did you see a , attend a sports event , take a hike or enjoy other favorite ? Where , when and with whom did you first do those things ? What about now ? What role did members play in shaping the and pursuits that are today a big part of your ?


In " Dancing Across the Generations , " Roy Hoffman writes about , a passion that was fostered by his parents and older sister .

For as long as I can , we have danced . My parents began their romance at a dance in Mobile , Ala . , and raised me and my three older sisters in a home where the right song on a scratchy Victrola was enough to set off a two - step or rumba .

It's the last night of 1986 , and the band at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear , Ala . , across the bay from Mobile , is playing " Fly Me to the Moon . " I'm 33 , and dancing with my mom . She is light in my arms , following , with patient ease , my clumsy foxtrot . Alongside us , as the clock winds toward , Dad sends my Nancy into a slow turn , bringing her back more smoothly than I ever could .

We look out to Mobile Bay , a slender moon in the New Year's Eve . The night is chilly , but in here the dance band is cooking .

A new tune begins ? a peppy " Bye , Bye , Blackbird " ? and my mother and I start in . I'm rusty , not sure of my steps , but eighth - grade cotillion training from 1967 is still in my blood .

My mom guides me in an easy swing , leading me by deftly following . As she rocks back and I pull her close again she is beaming , exclaiming , " You've got it now . " Then my father is tapping me on the , cutting back in .

Nancy and , in our second year of , begin a Cajun step we learned in New Orleans . I look at her , tall and , moving with ease , then over at my parents . In their seventies , their quick step turns back the hands of the clock . I see them not as cute , but stylish , the embodiment of charm . The dance burnishes their aura .

They are gone now , but not their dancing .

* * *

It was my big sister Becky got me started when I was 6 , turning our room into " American Bandstand . " While Dick Clark introduced acts like Jerry Lee Lewis on the - and - white screen , she welcomed boyfriends who pulled up to our curb in freshly waxed Chevys , and girlfriends in saddle oxfords .

On her record player in a zippered case , I can still see the 45 - r . p . m . recording of Elvis's " Hound Dog " spinning around . When one finished , another clattered onto the turntable . Becky me the jitterbug to " Be - Bop - a - Lula . " When heavenly Johnny Mathis crooned at her slumber parties I learned the dance , how the woman would lean her head on the shoulder of a man while maintaining a proper distance . As a first grader , I was the practice partner for her 16 - and 17 - year - old girlfriends . Then the big boys showed up to escort them to the Murphy High hop .

? In Mobile , when my daughter was a , we sent her to cotillion , but she and her chafed at what she calls " organized dancing . " The joy of moving as you wanted ? the tribal heat of youth , not the directives of ballroom ? was what was liberating , expressive .

For me , though , it doesn't matter whether it's Sinatra or the Stones on my sound system at home in the Alabama woods , or a global beat at a Brooklyn bar . My parents' gracefulness still rises inside , and I take my wife's , feeling her pull , press and twirl as we start a slow swing .

 
Are you sure you want to leave the page?

If you leave the page, you will lose your game progress.