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Brief Outline: Students become ninjas in search of Shingen Takeda's lost treasure, using English along the way to move forward on the gameboard and defeat monsters!

Materials Needed:

• GameBoard attachment.
• 6-sided die - one per group.
• Takeda's Treasure game board - one per group. It needs to be printed out horizontally and in color. If you don't have access to a color printer, simply print the board in B&W and color in the 'colored' squares with the appropriate colors.

Detailed Explanation:

1. This is a traditional roll-the-die-and-move board game with a twist; the players become ninjas in search of Shingen Takeda’s legendary secret treasure! The game begins as the students janken. The winner is the first player to move. Allow the students to use anything in their pencil cases as their gameboard pieces.
2. Each student (starting with the winner of janken) then rolls the die to move his game piece along the board. When he lands on a color, an animal, or a food, he has to say, “I like ~.”
3. If he lands on a monster (scary mask or skeleton), he must 'battle' the monster by rolling a 4, 5, or 6 on his NEXT turn. If he loses to the monster, he has to remain on the space and keep rolling until he gets a 4, 5, or 6. (This is a rule you may want to suspend for younger players who may have difficulty with it.) If he lands on a space that contains an English phrase, he will need to follow the instructions on the square. As for the 'Trade Places' square, the student MUST trade places with someone, whether it benefits him or not. (Again, this rule may be suspended for younger players if need be.)
4. The winner is the first student to reach the finish line and claim the treasure!

Variations:

• Add more pictures for more speaking practice.

Teaching Suggestions:

• This game works well with 3rd grade students or older, but it can be adapted for younger students, also.
• This game can be adapted easily for other grammar point lessons as well.
• In a group of four (the ideal number of students for this game), students will need at least 8 turns (should they roll all sixes) before they reach the treasure, so plan time accordingly.
• Everything here is spaced quite nicely, so to change the game, I recommend leaving the monsters and ‘English spaces’ where they are and changing the colors, fruit, animals and food.
• For you Samurai/history fans: Shingen Takeda (the Tiger of Kai), arch-enemy of Kenshin Uesugi (the Dragon of Echigo), died of illness at the age of 49, but before he did, he supposedly hid a great treasure of gold that he had collected as taxes from the people over many years, as well as the gold he was able to dig from mines on his lands. This treasure, still legend in contemporary Japan, is sometimes featured in video games, and is a pay-attraction at Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park.

• 各グループにサイコロが一個
• もし、カラー印刷が出来なければ、白黒でプリントを作った後で適当に色を付けます。

1. 一般的なサイコロで進むゲームを少し変えたものだ。選手は忍者になって「武田信玄」の伝説的な財宝を探す。最初に児童はお互いにジャンケンをして勝った人がゲームを始める。ゲームの駒として、消しゴムや鉛筆などなんでも使っていい。
2. サイコロを投げて出た目の数だけ駒を進める。もし色の付いたところや、動物の絵や、食べ物の絵の場所に着いたら、英語で好きな物を言う。“　I like ～～
3. もし化け物（怖いマスクや骸骨）のいる場所に着いたら、戦わなければならない。　戦うには次回にサイコロで４以上を出さなければならない。化け物に負けたら、サイコロの目が４以上出るまでそこにとどまらなければならない。（年少の児童には難しいかもしれないので、このルールに関しては無視してもよい。）もし英文がある場所に着いたら、英文の指示のようにする。「他の人と替わる」と書いてあれば良くても悪くても他の児童と場所を交換しなければならない。（これも、年少の児童には、このルールを無視してもよい。）
4. 最初にゴーラインに着いて財宝を自分のものと宣言した児童が勝つ。

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