Care should be given to the selection so that the success of a game is inevitable. Choose a game that complements whatever you are doing in class. Developing games for the classroom is often too costly for the teacher in terms of time and money to make the effort worthwhile. Typing handouts and making copies for the class becomes draining physically and financially whether the teacher is working with institutional or personal funds. However, index cards provide an inexpensive and easy source of possible activities for language learning.
Index cards have several favorable aspects.
Aside from being relatively inexpensive, they are also easily available anywhere in the world. Teachers in both small rural communities as well as in major cities have access to them. These cards are easily organized and stored in any type of small box. Special index card files make organization quick and handy, but often an old shoe box works just as well. Once cards are stored, they are also easily portable from classroom to classroom or country to country.