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Snakes & Ladders
SUGGESTED TOPIC: General Games SUBMITTED BY: Raegina Taylor & Roger Parker & Patrick Bickford INSPIRED BY: Genki English & Okinawa ALT website DATE ADDED: Sep 07, 2010
 è ð 25-50 min. |
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Brief Outline: In this exciting climb-to-the-top game, students climb up or slide down based upon the square they land on.
Materials Needed:
Detailed Explanation:
- Split the students into pairs or small groups, depending on the class size.
- Give each pair/group a game board, dice and markers (you can allow the students to make their own markers if you want).
- Each pair/group plays Janken to decide who goes first.
- The first person starts by rolling the dice and moving their piece to the appropriate square and doing the English task: saying a vocabulary word, making a sentence, asking a question, etc. If they can't do the English task, they must move back an X number of squares. You decide how many squares they move back.
- If a student's piece comes to the base of a ladder, they must climb it and do the English task. Likewise, if a player's piece stops on a square that contains a snake's head, they must slide down to the base and perform the English task.
- The first student to get to the last square is the winner.
Variations:
- Make the students count their moves in English. If you hear Japanese, move the student's piece to any where you like on the board.
- Add or remove ladders/snakes/slides from the game board to increase or decrease the time alloted to play the game.