Activity

Spy Family Game

A board game and PP game based on Spy Family. The PP has built in questions for all JHS levels and the boardgame can be used with any question set.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • For the PP: White boards, markers, and erasers for each group
  • For the board game: print out the board and pieces. They are meant to be used on the blackboard with magnets.

DIRECTIONS (PPT ONLY)

  • Divide the class into groups.
  • Click on a character to play their mini-game.
    • Click on the question mark next to each character to go through the directions.
  • Have groups work together to do the mini-games.
  • Award points to each group for correct answers.

MINI-GAME TYPES

Anya

  • Use telepathy: have students use English to write down what the characters might be thinking.
  • Give one point for good English and have fun awarding bonus points for funny/creative answers!
  • Click the ??? to show an example.

Yor

  • Assassinate the English betrayers: have students identify and correct the bad English sentences.
  • Award 3 points for "assassinating" the correct person, subtract 3 points for assassinating an innocent person.
  • Click the "1st Year," "2nd Year," "3rd Year" tabs to change the grammar difficulty.
    • 1st Year -> questions are mostly from Unit 1 and 2 of Blue Sky's 1st year textbook
    • 2nd Year -> 1st year review and 2nd year Unit 1 and 2
    • 3rd Year -> 2nd year review and 3rd year Unit 1 and 2
  • Click the star next to the people to reveal the answers.

Loid

  • Perform spy missions: have students race to do a variety of English based tasks.
    • Shiritori: with the given word as the start, have groups play shiritori for 1 minute.
      • The group with the most words is awarded points.
      • Ex. "cat" -> tree, ear, run, name, etc. the first letter of a word must be the last letter of the previous word.
    • List: have groups write down as many words belonging to the given category for 45 seconds.
      • The group with the most words is awarded points.
    • Sentence: have groups write a sentence using the given grammar point.
      • The fastest group is awarded points, or every group is awarded points for correct answers and the fastest group gets bonus points.
    • Race: have groups race to write a finite group of things, like the ABC's or the months.
      • The fastest group is awarded points.

Bond

  • Clairvoyance: have students watch a video and decide if the result will be epic or a fail (think Ellen DeGeneres's Epic or Fail game).
  • Award points to the correct groups based on how many groups were correct. (I.e. if all groups are correct, one point. If only one group is correct, 3-5 points.)

BOARD GAME

  • Print and cut out the board game elements. (There are stars, lightning bolts, game pieces, and the board itself.)
  • Add magnets or bring magnets to pin everything on the blackboard.
  • You can put the board together in any way you wish, but I created it with Monopoly in mind.
    • See the attached image for a guide.
  • Randomly put the stars and lightning bolts on the spaces. When a group lands on that space, they get that item. 3 stars = +5 points, 3 lightning bolts = -5 points.
  • Groups answer questions to roll a six-sided die and move their game pieces around the board. When a group lands on a mini-game, all groups stop to play it.

NOTES

  • Using the boardgame and the PPT together was a bit hectic. If you are by yourself, I would definitely recommend using only the PPT!

For more Bond game videos:

  1. Download the "Spy Family - Bond Game Extra Videos" PPT.
  2. In the extra videos PPT, select the Section name (Bond #) and copy it with CTRL+C.
  3. In the full game PPT, click under the last Bond game slide, right click, then select the Paste option to Keep Source Formatting.
  4. Open the Selection Pane (Home->Editing->Select->Selection Pane).
  5. On the main Bond slide (slide 4), click Round 1 and Round 2 to make them visible.
    • If you add all 3 Extra Videos groups, make Round 3 and Round 4 visible too.
  6. Right click Round 2->Link->Place in this document->choose the main slide of the second group of Bond slides.
  7. Repeat this for every Round button on every main slide for Bond for smooth access.
Files:
Small files
  • Spy Family Board Game Image.png (593 KB)
  • Medium files (requires an account to download) -
  • Spy Family Game Board Pieces.pub (11.1 MB)
  • Spy Family Game Without Bond.pptx (9 MB)
  • Large files (requires a subscriber account) -
  • Spy Family Game.pptx (86.8 MB)
  • Spy Family - Bond Game Extra Videos 1.pptx (44.7 MB)
  • Spy Family - Bond Game Extra Videos 2.pptx (76.8 MB)
  • Spy Family - Bond Game Extra Videos 3.pptx (65.2 MB)
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    Submitted by 4sarah1212 January 12, 2023 Estimated time: 50 minutes / full period
    1. cosmicality February 16, 2024

      Also begging in 2024 for a google slides or drive link to this.

    2. akirmk February 22, 2024

      Me too. I'd love to try this but too poor for a subscriber's account :(

    3. t0630 March 6, 2024

      I hope you could divide the PP. I'm not a subscriber so I can't see it T_T.

    4. raymo1 May 27, 2024

      I'd like to add to the clamoring for a drive link. I had the good luck to access this activity before the subscriber file size limit, truly an incredible resource. Unfortunately, the USB I had it saved on has been lost. To either the OP or one of you subscriber ballers: please hook us up with a Google drive link! 🙏🙏🙏

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