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Originally submitted by Jackie Vint on Apr 18, 2013.
DETAILED EXPLANATION:
- Have the students get into small groups (lunch groups are fine) and decide the order in which they will answer.
- The first student comes to the front and takes a card and rolls the dice.
- They show the card to the rest of the class who asks, "Who's that?"
- The student at the front answers the question based on the outcome of the dice, e.g. if they take the card with Rola on and roll a 3, they say "This is Rola, she is my grandma."
VARIATIONS:
- You can add a scoring system to make it more competitive. I used the monkeys and bananas dice, (a dice with 1 monkey, 3 monkeys, 6 monkeys, 1 banana, 3 bananas, 6 bananas on the sides). Bananas represent points and monkeys eat bananas. The student rolls the dice after saying the sentence to determine how many points their team will get.
- I know "mother", "father", "grandmother" etc are taught in textbooks more commonly over here, but these are terms that are almost never used in the UK anymore. I therefore chose to teach the words that are used the most in the UK. Obviously you can change the vocabulary on the worksheet if you wish.
- This activity can also be played within small groups as opposed to teams against each other to increase the amount of practice each student gets, I just didn't trust my students to behave.
Comments:
- My students really enjoyed trying to guess which character/celebrity would appear next and what relation they would be to their classmate.
- Practicing family vocabulary with this game prevents any embarrassment/awkwardness for students whose families are not "normal".
- Character roster submitted by Nicholas Hake:
Doraemon Shin-chan Godzilla Edizabus
Sazae-san Kojima Yoshio Matsuko Deluxe Wada Akiko
Akashiya Sanma Rola Kimutaku Kyary-Pamyu-Pamyu
Anpanman Spongebob Nameko Kitty-chan
Tony-Tony-Chopper Elmo Matsujun Mr. Bean
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