Talking Footbal – Present Tense Board Game. A Dynamic Board Game Activity to Learn and Practice English Present Tense – Free Downloadable and printable PDF Included
Talking Footbal – Present Tense Board Game
Talking Footbal – Present Tense Board Game
Skills to practice: Practice using present tenses. Present continuous and present simple. Note that we use the
present simple for habitual actions and the present continuous for one going actions in the present. A good idea is to pre-teach this grammar point and use the game for practice
Class Levels: This game is suitable for beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate English
language learners-ESL, ESOL, TEFL, TESOL Games.
Requirements: Cut out the game resources below. Cut out the balls or players and use as
markers
How to Play
- Use the cue words in the orange rectangles and combine with a verb in the white triangles to make full sentences. Students should change the verbs according to the tense and number. If the cue word has a question sign then they are expected to make questions instead.
- For every correct sentence the students can advance one space ahead from each side of the goal.
- The other team or player must listen carefully to spot the mistakes. If there isn’t any mistake in the sentence, the player can keep his/her space.
- If there is a mistake the team or player gets a yellow card and move back one step. If no mistake they keep their captured space. The other team takes its turn to combine cue words and keys words to make sentences. Every successful sentence means they retain the space and prepare to advance.
- Both teams (players) keep advancing until they meet on one space. When they meet they do ROCKS, PAPER and SCISSORS. The team that looses the ROCKS, PAPER & SCISSORS guess, gets a red card and goes back to start. The winning side continues until they meet again. Every time they, meet they do rocks, paper, and scissors to see who gets a red card. The team that gets to the other team’s goal, wins.
- When players get to the centre, it is a FREE space so they can create any sentence they like.
- If you decide to continue, try different key words or swap sides after the first side wins.
- Feel free to adapt this game for your classes as you like. Also feel free to modify or add rules.
Tips for large classes
This game is a board game, but can also be played in a large class. Photocopy the game on an A3 or larger paper size, or project in on a projector if your class has one. Use blue tag to stick team players as they advanced.
Download the free PDF and introduce this dynamic board game into your ESL classroom today!
Talking Footbal – Present Tense Board Game
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