About This Activity Type
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Overview Tile-Based Games are great for information-gap activities. The use of tiles allows for a wide variety of different versions of the same thing to be assembled. For example, our Body-Parts Monster Tile game makes it possible to build various different configurations of the same basic monster character. We currently have two Tile-Based Games available, but have many more in development. |
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Methodological Background These resources are designed for use in information-gap activities. Information-gap activities are a type of classroom communication practice exercise in both communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). These activities allow teachers and students to complete a task that can only be successfully completed through authentic verbal communication. Note: For card game-based information-gap activities, please visit the Deduction Card Games page. |
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Family Tree Builder
This kit provides a wide assortment of different Character Tiles that can be used to build different family trees. Each character tile can verbally be described differently than all other character tiles by communicating some combination of information about the characters clothings, accessories, hair color, or facial hair style.
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Girl With
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Boy With
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Woman With
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Man With
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Woman With
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The backs of each "character tile" feature the character's age, which can be used for activities that involve asking questions about age. The age on the back of each tile roughly matches how old the character on the other side looks.
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Tile For 5
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Tile For 14
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Tile For 41
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Tile For 56
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Tile For 70
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Every Character Tile has a different age than all of the characters sharing the same gender, so every single tile can be differentiated from every other tile just based on questions about age and gender. This will be useful if a teacher wishes to provide their students with an activity that just uses age and/or gender specific vocabulary words.
The Character Tiles fit into spaces in the five-layered cardstock based modular family tree builder.
Accompanying these resources is a set of completed family tree cards that can be used in conjunction with the tiles and family tree builder for information-gap activities that utilize family vocabulary words as well as vocabulary words related to clothing, color, and wearable accessories.
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1st (Top) Layer of
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2nd Layer of
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3rd Layer of
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4th Layer of
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5th (Bottom) Layer of
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"Train" Shape Builder Kit
This kit provides a printable PDF features a variety of shapes in different colors. The shapes can be used to create more than a dozen variations of a simple train engine. The printable shapes are accompanied by a set of 12 cards showing 12 different possible variations of the train engine.
These materials can be used for an information-gap activity where the first of two participants communicates verbally which color each shape in the train is, and the second participant must use their partner's verbal instructions to try to construct a train that matches the one on the card they cannot see.
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Shape Printable
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Layout Guides
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Each of the 12 provided cards has a different combination of colors for each of the train parts. Activity participants can refer to the parts as (from left to right, top to bottom) the 'front,' the 'body,' the 'wheel,' the 'chimney top,' the 'chimney,' the 'drive rod,' the 'cab top,' the 'cab,' and the 'window.'
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A Train Shapes Card
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A Train Shapes Card
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