About This Activity

Overview

These Flags Cut-&-Glue Kits allow students to play an engaging speaking game involving colors, shapes, and prepositional phrases.

Students can play this game after memorizing as few as 21 vocabulary words. Currently, there are 32 flags that students can play this game with.

 

Activity Presentation Phase Instructions

 

Cut & Glue Flag Backgrounds

Flag Backgrounds

 

Cut & Glue Flag Components

Flag Components

 

Cut & Glue Flag Rectangles

Flag Components (Rectangles)

 

Cut & Glue Flag Cards

Flag Cards

 

 

 

Download Game Materials

 

 

How To Play

Groups: This game is best played in pairs of two participants. One participant in each group will give instructions and the other will follow the instructions.

Materials:

  1. One or more Flag Cards (4 per printable page, 32 available). 
  2. One full set of Flag Component (3 pages total).
  3. One full set of Flag Backgrounds (3 pages total).

Time / Game Round: 1-3 minutes

Gameplay Process:

  • The GOAL of this game is for Partner One to describe a world flag shown on a card and for Partner Two to correctly construct that flag (using scissors, glue, and the the provided multi-colored shape print-outs) based only on Partner Two's verbal instructions.

  • Partner One draws a Flag Card randomly from the provided Flag Cards. They must not show the card to Partner Two. 

  • Partner One tells Partner Two which color background to begin with.

    To do this, the Partner One can use the sentence pattern "Please start with a _________________ background." and insert either 'blue,' 'yellow,' or 'white' into the blank in the sentence pattern.

  • Partner One tells Partner Two which shapes to use and where to place them on the the background to assemble the flag.

    For example, Partner One could use the following sentences to provided instructions for re-creating the Flag of the United Arab Emirates:

 

Flag of the United Arab Emirates

"Please start with a white background."

"You need a wide green rectangle."

"Put the green rectangle at the top of the flag."

"You need a wide black rectangle."

"Put the black rectangle at the bottom of the flag."

"You need a tall red rectangle."

"Put the red rectangle on the left side of the flag."

"You are finished!"

 

  • After Partner Two has finished constructing a flag, the two partners can compare it to the flag on the Flag Card to check for accuracy.

  • This game works best if Partner One cannot see what Partner Two is doing. This will prevent Partner One from being tempted to try to help with cutting, gluing, and assembling. As well, it will prevent Partner One from adding physical gestures to his or her verbal instructions.

  • After completing a round, the two partners can switch roles and the new Partner One can draw a new Flag Card randomly from the deck.

  • One full set of Card Backgrounds and Card Components will be sufficient to constructed up to a dozen different flags.

 

How To Play

 

 

 

Words to Learn Before Playing

The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE playing this game. Students will only need to learn the words listed for a specific set of cards to play this game with that set of cards.

 

Core Vocabulary Words Used in Activity
Kit A (32 Flags) blue, black, bottom, circle, cornflower (blue), flag, green, left, medium (blue), middle, orange, rectangle, red, right, side, star, tall, top, white, wide, yellow

 

 

Words to Learn While Playing

The following words will be used to the play this game (with every available set of cards). However, these words don't need to be pre-taught. These words can and should be learned WHILE playing the game.

 

Vocabulary Best Learned In Context
Used With All Kits a/an, are, background, finished, need, of, please, put, start, the with, you

 

 

Sentence Patterns to Use While Playing

The following sentences and sentence patterns are recommended for use while playing this game. The best way to teach these sentences, is to use them in context while introducing the game and demonstrating how to play it.

 

Standard Sentences and Sentence Patterns
Please start with a _________________ background.
You need a _________________ _________________ _________________.      (tall/wide) (color) (shape)
Put the _________________ at the top of the flag. / Put the _________________ at the bottom of the flag.
Put the _________________ on the left side of the flag. / Put the _________________ on the right side of the flag.
Put the _________________ in the middle of the flag.
You are finished!