About This Activity

Overview

This Robot Cut-&-Glue Kit allow students to play an engaging speaking game involving colors, shapes, and prepositional phrases.

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

 

Robot Assembly Sheet

Robot Assembly Sheet

 

Robot Cards

Robot Cards (Standard)

 

Robot Cards (With L/R Markers)

Robot Cards (with L/R Markers)

 

 

 

Download Game Materials

 

 

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 Robot Assembly Sheet (for each round).
  2. One set of Robot Cards or one set of Robot Cards with L/R markers (18 of each type of card available).

Time / Game Round: 1-2 minutes

Gameplay Process:

  • The GOAL of this game is for Partner One to describe a robot shown on a card and for Partner Two to correctly construct a matching robot using scissors, glue, and robot components from the bottom of their Robot Assembly Sheet.

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

  • Partner One tells Partner Two which components the robot on the Robot Card has and where they are.

    For example, Partner One could use the following sentences to provided instructions for re-creating this robot.

 

Robot Card Example

"There is a head in the robot."

"There is a wheel on the bottom of the robot."

"There is an arm on the left side of the robot."

"There are two legs on the top of the robot."

"You are finished!"

 

  • After Partner Two has finished constructing a robot, the two partners can compare it to the robot on the Robot 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 Robot Card randomly from the deck.

 

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 (18 Cards) arm, bottom, head, left, legs, right, side, top, two, wheel

 

 

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, finished, in, is, of, on, the, there, 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
There is ___ _________________ _________________ the robot.
There two legs _________________ the robot.
You are finished!