What Time Uno
Submitted by: Patrick Bickford Borrowed or inspired from: www.akita-ajet.com Date added: 02-07-08
Brief Outline: Students enjoy playing Uno while practicing asking/telling the time. Materials Needed
Preparation Needed:
Print out and make sets of the Uno time cards. A color printer is best but printing them out on a B&W printer and coloring them is also an exhausting option. Also, printing them out using a thick non-see-thru paper is best. If you don’t have access to that, either color one the other side of each card, make your own logo and print it on the backside of each card or double-layer each card. If you are really lazy, don’t do anything and have the students hide the ‘draw deck’ and the cards in their hands.
Teaching Suggestions:
Review the Uno rules to ensure the students know them.
The target question for laying down a ‘Change’ or ‘Draw 4’ to all the students except for the one playing the card is: “What time is it?”
The target grammar of laying down Draw 1, 2 and 4’s is “Draw .”
The target grammar to change the color is “Change to .”
The target grammar for laying down every card is “It’s .”
Detailed Explanation:
Split the class into 4-6 groups. Each group receives a full set of Uno time cards.
Each student is dealt 7 cards.
Play Janken to see who starts first.
Variations and Options:
- There are varying ways to draw cards from the deck. If a student can’t play a card, OPTION #1 is to have them draw 1 card from the deck. If they can play it, so be it. OPTION #2 is to have the student keep drawing cards until they find one they can play. However, this could result in the discarded cards being reshuffled many times.
Cautions:
- Sometimes when the students are having too much fun, they forget to speak English.
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