Activity

The Harry Potter Train Game (New Horizon Vers.)

A game to practice giving directions for train lines related to New Horizon 2 (p. 81)

This was adapted from @onaka's excellent work, so (wizard) hats off to them!

This version has slightly different language related to the New Horizon 2 text (p. 81).

I have also added more "hand holding" by doing a couple examples together as a class. I find this helps prepare students. It has also made it a longer activity (45 mins for my classes).

I have included two pdf files with a map and dialogue. These can be sent to the student's tablets for their reference, if desired.

Because both Magic Station and Snake Station are one stop from Daigon Alley Station, I've found it useful to discuss North/South/East/West. So students can say "Take the Green Line South" for example.

Between slides I've had a couple students 'present' their dialogue to the class. Ideally, by the last couple slides, some students should be able to give directions without referring to the text.

Again, thanks to @onaka for the excellent activity!

Files:
Small files
  • The Harry Potter Train Game Student Slides.pdf (341 KB)
  • Medium files (requires an account to download) -
  • The Harry Potter Train Game.pptx (26.3 MB)
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    Submitted by barronator November 4, 2022 Estimated time: 40-50 mins
    1. ChetBorneo November 4, 2022

      Thanks! I was planning on changing this for my NH classes so you've saved me a load of time. Nice one!

    2. crisxselda November 7, 2022

      Nice. Thank you!

    3. onaka November 7, 2022

      Fantastic! Happy to see these great improvements to the original version!

    4. ShadowTheHedgehog November 8, 2022

      Outstanding! Thanks a lot for sharing!

    5. jiggswalsh November 24, 2022

      There's a couple of typos in the letter. "instructions" and "Also" are misspelled. Great activity though, I might use it next week! Thanks

    6. reynnich January 18, 2023

      Thanks or the upload, my students got a real kick out of it! It was also easy enough to modify to make it take less time.

    7. Joanne November 1, 2023

      Hi, great work! Any chance of getting the PPTto adapt a bit, also to correct any spelling mistakes, thank you.

    8. jiggswalsh November 13, 2023

      I was just looking at this activity again and realised that "Diagon Alley" is spelled correctly on the map, but then incorrectly though the dialogue demos ("Daigon Alley").

    9. barronator December 12, 2024

      Better late than never, but I finally fixed the spelling of "Diagon Alley". I guess in my mind the pronunciation always sounded like 'a' before 'i'. Sorry!

      As for the typos in Harry's invitation letter -- I didn't create it and it's uneditable. I also don't think it's a problem. In my opinion there's no need to actually read the letter word for word anyway.

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