Activity

Marvel Wipe Out

A race and speak Powerpoint Game for groups

This was inspired by Super Mario World, Bullet Bill's Revenge! I will link the activities.

Update

For the relative pronouns version I replaced Captain America with Black Panther so you'll need to cut out his card and add it.

I fixed an issue that was causing problems when I removed the answer picture from the template. If you are making your own version of this. Base it on the template and not the complete versions. Those ones will glitch if you remove the pictures.

Notes

The template version needs to be edited before it is used. I have included red banners that point to some of the things that need to be edited. A note about editing this. Thanos blocks the hint picture a bit. You might have to work around him or just delete that picture. The 'possessive pronoun' version is MOSTLY ready to go. YOU SHOULD CHANGE the picture of ME to YOU.

How to Play

Do the demonstration slide before putting students into groups. Each group will be a Marvel Character from the game. They can select the character or you select them. After the demonstration slide make groups and assign characters.

When you first arrive on a slide you click on the question number circle near the top left. This will reveal the key words or the question depending on the version. You can then click the same circle again to reveal a picture hint if you are using the picture hint. If you are not using a picture hint then delete the small picture in the top right corner of each question slide.

The students who should be in groups will decide their answer and one member will then come to a teacher with the answer. IF the answer is correct they / or a teacher will tap their team character picture causing a version of their character to appear in the top row. The character can either stay there or you click the newly appeared character to move to the middle row and again for the bottom. Clicking the bottom will return it to the start box.

After every team has gotten a chance to answer or a time limit is reached you click small circle with the question number again to reveal a sample answer. Do an answer check then click that circle one last time to make the answer vanish.

Now you click the READY button. After clicking it you click on Thanos. This will cause a dust cloud to slide across one row eliminating all the characters from that row. All the remaining teams get one point. The eleminated teams get nothing.

Then click on Thanos again to go to the next slide.

The worksheet has lines for writing the answers. I generally make this optional. While waiting for other teams to finish students can write down their answers but they don't need to and they shouldn't write before coming to answer. Answer first then write if there is time.

After the twelve questions are done the team with the most points is the winner.

Writing Practice

After the activity I usually include a few questions for writing practice. The slideshow has an example. I typically break up the groups before this and have them do the writing solo. I reward stickers if they complete two questions depending on the time.

Small Talk

Most of my classes start with 1 or 2 minutes of free talk at the beginning of lessons. The slide at the beginning is for that. Delete it if your class doesn't do small talk or does its own version of small talk.

Files:
Small files
  • 1. Marvel Wipe Out TEMPLATE character cards.docx (938 KB)
  • Marvel Wipeout RELATIVE PRONOUNS characters 'Includes Black Panther'.docx (943 KB)
  • Medium files (requires an account to download) -
  • 1. Marvel Wipe Out TEMPLATE.pptx (3.44 MB)
  • 2. MARVEL WIPE OUT 'It's his house'.pptx (8.65 MB)
  • 2. MARVEL WIPE OUT 'It's his house'.docx (1.19 MB)
  • Marvel Wipeout RELATIVE PRONOUNS 'It is a game that we play in English Class'.pptx (5.76 MB)
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    Submitted by UonumaRobert October 7, 2021 Estimated time: 25-30 minutes plus longer with follow up writing
    1. vaudeville April 21, 2022

      Got a lot of mileage out of this. Thank you. These kind of games are great for reviewing targets after having more structured, build writing lessons.

    2. ameykk123 September 21, 2023

      Hope the actress (from India) whose photo you added in your ppt (page 1) won't mind seeing her there! :)

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