Do you keen on about board games? (Speaking club)

Do you keen about games?

Say which of the board games below you have played, who you have played them with and how difficult you think they are.

Chess Monopoly Scrabble

Do you keen on about board games?

Categorize

Options (6)

Players create words using letters.

The pieces have different shapes, like a top hat, a car, an iron, a boot.

The goal is to score more points than other players.

The goal is to attack the opponent’s king so that it cannot move.

Players roll the dice and move forward on the board.

It can only be played by two people.

Look at the sentences and decide whether they describe chess, Monopoly or Scrabble.

Chess

Monopoly

Scrabble

Answer the questions about the games. If you don’t know the answer, guess.

a) How many pieces are used in chess?

b) Is there a time limit for a chess move?

c) How many dice are needed to play Monopoly?

d) How do you beat your opponents in Monopoly?

e) Does a Scrabble player score more points using the letter A or the letter X (when they play in English)? Why?

Do Scrabble players roll the dice at the beginning or at the end of the game?

• What do you think about the idea of a board game library?

• Would you borrow a game from the library? Why/Why not?

• Would the library be popular where you live? Why/Why not?.

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Watch the video and say where the speaker is. After that discuss the questions.

Eurogame

a board game in which players score points in various ways; players are never eliminated from a Eurogame " 

Say at least one piece of information you hear about each of the board games from video.

a) Monopoly

b) Clue

c) Scotland Yard

d) Catan

e) Codenames

Discuss the questions.

• Have you played any of the games from the video? How good are they? If you haven’t played them, which one(s) would you like to try?

• Do you prefer strategy games or games in which you only need luck? Why?

• Do you enjoy playing cooperative games or do you prefer games in which you play against your opponents? Why?

• How important is winning a game for you?

• What other board games have you played (as a child or an adult)?

• Would you agree that board games are not only for kids? Why/Why not?

• Do you know anyone who collects board games? If so, do you sometimes play with them?

• Have you ever created or thought about creating your own game? What was it about?

Think and create a short presentation about a game you know. Use the questions below to guide you (you don’t need to answer all of them).

• What kind of game is it (e.g. a board game, a video game, a card game)?

• How many people can play?

• Do you need pieces and dice?

• Can you score points? How?

• What is the goal of the game? / What do you need to do to win the game?

• Is there a time limit for a move?

• How long does one game last?

• Are there different difficulty levels?

• How good or bad is the game