Design a game

You are going to

• look at game instruction videos
• practise zero conditional, imperatives, language for explaining
• invent, design and make a game (inc. game rules)
• present and explain your game to others

1) Discuss
Think of some games (board games, computer games, word games, card games…)

• How do you play the game? (instructions, rules)
• What do you need to play the game? (dice, cards, pieces…)
• What do you have to do in the game? (answer questions, throw dice….)
• How do you win the game? (score points, win money…)

2) Watch Video 1 - How to play Monopoly

• Have you ever played Monopoly?
• How do you play it?
• What do you need to play it?

Watch and find out

3) Do the matching exercise. 
Put the instructions in order.

4) Watch Video 2 - How to play Scrabble

• Have you ever played Scrabble?
• How do you play it?
• What do you need to play it?

 Watch and find out

5) Do the gap-fill exercise. 
Fill in the gaps with the correct phrase.

Printable worksheets here



6) Grammar
Look at "How to play Scrabble" again

• Can you find any imperatives?
• Can you find any conditionals? What kind?
• What happens to the verb after "by"
• What words do you use to state a purpose?

7) Group activity
Design a game competition
In groups you are going to INVENT, DESIGN and MAKE a game.
It MUST be ORIGINAL (not a copy of an existing game)

• give it a NAME
• MAKE it (all the pieces, board, cards, dice etc)
• write some RULES and INSTRUCTIONS for it and then 
• DEMONSTRATE, EXPLAIN and SHOW how to play it to the rest of the class.
• Everyone votes for the best game
• Try and use some of the language you have seen in the lesson (imperatives, Zero Conditional, so that....)

GOOD LUCK and may the best team win!






More
Online Scrabble
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/scrabbleGame.cfm

http://www.quadplex.com/