🎯 What’s This Game About?
This game was an absolute hit with my 5th-grade elementary schoolers! It's inspired by the classic American TV show The Price Is Right and works perfectly to practice pronouncing numbers in the hundreds (e.g., "555 = five hundred fifty-five").
Age Group:
- Designed for 5th-grade ES, but it’s a great time filler or review game for older students, too! I have used in in my Special Needs JHS classes a few times and they love it all the same.
đź“ť General Notes
- âś… Start with a quick review of number pronunciation before playing.
- đź’´ All prices in this game are under 1,000 yen, so no teams will need to guess over that amount.
- 📸 The prices are taken directly from Amazon—complete with screenshots of the actual webpages. My kids loved seeing the surprising (and sometimes crazy!) prices! Some of the listings are sketchy with 0 reviews, but it's a game so who cares lol~
🛠️ Materials
- Whiteboards, markers, and erasers (one set per team).
- Blackboard or another way to track scores.
- TV + HDMI + laptop for the PowerPoint.
👩‍🏫 How to Play
1) Split the class into teams, giving each team a whiteboard to keep their guesses honest.
2) Start with the example slide (USB example):
- The USB’s actual price is 700 yen, which will be revealed at the end of the example round.
3) Walk students through the example guesses:
- Team 1: 705 yen (too high—overshot the actual price).
- Team 2: 600 yen.
- Team 3: 690 yen (the closest without going over—Team 3 wins! 🎉).
4) Practice speaking: Have each team say their guessed price aloud before revealing the correct answer.
5) Click the "# points" button to return to the category selection slide. Let a team pick the next category and number.
6) Keep track of team scores on the blackboard for some friendly competition. 🏆
🤩 Why It’s Great
This game gets students:
- Excited to guess prices.
- Confidently speaking big numbers in English.
- Working together as a team in a fun and interactive way!
Happy teaching,
CarpenterBee
Beautiful PPT
My kids had great fun! Thank you!
Very, very well done.
Nice! Thank you for sharing.
My first graders loved it but some of the prices were crazy, like 434 yen for 1 Koala no march? I had to lie and say it's for 3.
Great job! I used this in a class of three and they seemed to enjoy themselves. I think it would be fun to play again with new items or categories.
Played this with a bunch of different groups and they all loved it. Fabulous ppt.
Played this with my JHS Year 1 students and it was a hit! Great find.
I played this with my English club (average age 74ish) and they loved it XD. They were kinda mad at the prices and think I was messing with them but the enthusiasm was great.
I love it! Great powerpoint, but after playing it I would stick to using only listings which have reviews and stuff. Having twist answers are fun, but like the high heel listing is so fake the title of it is for men's large sneakers. I guess it could be fun to make a point that some listings on Amazon are fake, but it sucked a bit of fun for the class I jst played with! Could be due to the students personality tho, haha, they didn't think it was fair