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Originally submitted by Patrick Bickford on Sept 18, 2008.
DETAILED EXPLANATION:
- Have the class make pairs and give a game board to each pair. Review the people and things on the worksheet to ensure the students know who and what every picture is.
- Split the class into pairs, the pair plays Janken and the winner goes first.
- The name of the game is Squares. The object of the game is to draw lines to complete a square. The student who draws the final line to complete the square, signs their name inside the square they just completed.
- How to Draw a Line: The winner of Janken must say two sentences. The sentences indicate a starting and ending point for the line. Say for example, a student wants to draw a horizontal line from Bob Sapp's orange juice to Bob Sapp's computer, the two sentences the student would say are: "Bob Sapp likes orange juice. Bob Sapp likes computers." If the student successfully says both sentences, they draw the line and it becomes their partner's turn. If a student can't successfully navigate both sentences, play is stopped and it's the next person's turn. Also, lines don't have to connect. Students can draw a line anywhere on the board. Let's say the first student uses the Bob Sapp example from above, and then the next student says "Ai-chan likes video games. Ai-chan likes baseball", that is okay. The only requirement is that the two sentences spoken have to be adjacent dots.
- The game is over when the all squares have been completed on the grid. The champion is the person with the most signatures.
VARIATIONS:
- Once the students get a hang of the game, try inserting a more strict rule. At any point that a student makes a mistake AND their opponent catches the mistake, the round ends and it's the next person's turn.
- You can play with more than two people, just keep the paper one student ahead of the student forming the sentences.
- Also, if you are looking for a longer game, instead of squares, play 'triangles'.
- Instead of forming Present Tense Plural sentences, you can use this activity to form Bare Infinitive sentences: "Bob Sappy must drink orange juice. Bob Sapp must use a computer."
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