About This Activity

Overview

This set of Monster Body-Part Tiles allows students to practice their spoken English with an engaging speaking game involving colors, body-parts, and numbers.

Students can play this game after memorizing just 10 vocabulary words. The 18 accompanying robot cards provide enough potential outcomes that students will be able to repeat the game many times without it becoming repetitive.

 

Activity Presentation Phase Instructions

 

An Upper-Left Corner Tile

An Upper-Left Corner Tile

 

An Upper Right Corner Tile

An Upper-Left Corner Tile

 

A Bottom Right Corner Tile

An Bottom Right Corner Tile

 

 

 

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How To Play

Groups: This game is best played in pairs of two participants. One partner will describe the robot shown on a Robot Card and the other partner will attempted to construct a match robot based on the description. 

Materials:

  1. One set of 20 Monster Body-Part Tiles (4 x 5 pages)
  2. One set of 18 Monster Body-Part Cards (9 x 2 pages)

Time / Game Round: 1-3 minutes

Gameplay Process:

  • The GOAL of this game is for Partner One to assemble a finished monster composed of 4 tiles by asking Partner Two a series of questions about the monster on their "secret" Monster Body-Parts Card.

  • Partner Two draws a Monster Body-Part Card randomly from the provided set of 18 cards. They must not show the card to Partner One. 

  • Partner One allows Partner Two a series of questions that allows Partner One to systematically narrow down the correct tiles needed to compose a monster that looks the same as the monster on the "secret card" held by Partner Two.
  • After Partner One has finished constructing a monster, Partner Two reviews their "secret card" and the two partners can compare it to the monster composed of Monster Body-Part Tiles to check for accuracy.

  • This game works best if Partner Two cannot see what Partner One is doing. This will prevent Partner Two from being tempted to try to help by adding physical gestures to his or her verbal instructions or reacting to mistakes made by Partner One.

  • After completing a round, the two partners can switch roles and the new Partner Two can draw a new "secret" Monster Card randomly from the deck.

 

How To Play

 

 

 

Completed Tile Monster

A Complete Tile-Based Monster

 

 

Words to Learn Before Playing

The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE playing this game. 

 

Standard Use Vocabulary

Used With All Sets

(We'll Be Adding
More Sets Soon)

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10*, blue, brown, color, gray, green, monster, orange, pink, purple, red, yellow


*Additional numbers could be used to play this game, but aren't required knowledge to be able to play. 

 

Vocabulary Words Used in Activity
Tile Set A (20 Tiles) arm, body, ear, eye, foot/feet, hand, head, knee, mouth, neck, nose, shoe, tail, thumb

 

Important Notes: 

 

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.

 

Standard Use Vocabulary
Tile Set A are, does, doesn't, have, how, is, isn't, it, many, more, no, or, right, the, this, what, yes

 

 

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
What color/colors is/are the monster's _________________?
The monster's _________________ is/are _________________.
Does the monster have one or more _________________?
Yes, it does. / No, it doesn't.
How many _________________ does the monster have?
It has ___ _________________. 
Is this right?
Yes, it is. / No, it isn't.