UPDATE 2024:
My JTE wanted a mixed version after all (regular past tense and irregular). So I have added the mixed version, included PDF versions of both and the worksheets to go with them.
I saw wanifan's Animal Crossing sugoroku and loved it, but wanted a version for just regular past tense verbs because New Horizon splits them up. A couple of my first years wrote about the Tsum Tsum game lately, so I went for that as the theme.
It's very straight forward. Student rolls a dice and moves their eraser, they say the sentence written in the space they land on but substituting the Japanese verb for the correct English one. Example. She (見た) TV. => She watched TV.
There's a few New Horizon references, so feel free to change them, or edit sentences to practice verbs that are covered in your textbook. (I tried my best to avoid the verbs that are hard to translate directly.)
There are also optional worksheets to see if the students can properly form the past tense.
Worksheet: A gap fill that has the same sentences that appear on the board game.They fill in the verb.
Verb Table: As it sounds, a table with all the verbs. The gap fill has blanks spread throughout all columns. Past tense only is just for filling out the past tense form etc.
Materials:
- Print out enough copies of the board for 1 per group. (3-4 students per group)
- Dice! (1 per group)
- Have the students use their erasers as their marker.