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Snake & Ladders  
Submitted byRaegina Taylor     Borrowed or inspired by: www.genkienglish.com     Date added: 10-29-07

Outline: Students play the snakes and ladders game, aiming to be the first to finish in their group.
 
Teaching Suggestions:
  • Preteach grammar ‘How do you say ~ in English?’.
  • Students need to know numbers 1-100, weather, emotions, days of the week and general vocabulary to play this game.
 
Procedure:
  1. Students work in teams of 4-5 students.
  2. Explain the rules of the game to the class.
    • On squares with ladders, you go up the ladder (level up);
    • On squares with snakes, you go down the snake (level down)]
    • Students must count the squares and die numbers in ENGLISH. If Japanese is heard, the teacher can put the student’s marker back to wherever they like!
  3. Hand out one board, two die and markers for each student, to each group
  4. Students play English janken to decide on the order of playing. Students one rolls. If they land on a square with a picture on it, the rest of the group asks them ‘How do you say ~ in English?’. The student tries to answer, but if they don’t know, the other members can help them out.
  5. Students play the game and the teacher supervises. If students come across a word they don’t know they must come to the teacher and ask them, using the relevant grammar.

 

Tips or Cautions:

  • Don’t make a rule where students have to go back a space if they don’t know the word. This is embarrassing and the student’s loose interest in the game very quickly because they are not going anywhere!

 

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