Vocabulary is particularly important when learning a foreign language: it is the basis of everything and without knowing it, both oral and written communication are impossible. CEFR itself makes little mention of vocabulary. Learners at all levels may have difficulties retaining vocabulary, and textbooks offer few exercises to aid in memorizing it. Knowing that games have many advantages, we recommend the Happy Families game for the acquisition of vocabulary in oral classes through repetition. Building on François Weiss’s research, we attempted to adapt the same game for four university classes of different levels. At the end of this paper, we introduce our results in university: we submitted questionnaires to students in order to know their points of view on this method of memorizing vocabulary and tested their knowledge during oral exams.
