Game of the goose

We all have played the Game of the Goose (Juego de la Oca in Spanish) at least once. With this game, students not only have fun, but also learn and practice their English. This game is very interesting because you can adapt it to your own class' level (as you choose the contents) and also to every skill (speaking, reading, writing and listening), even to vocabulary and culture.

In this document, it is included:

• Rules of the game
• Empty template of the game board to create your own
• Game to practice irregular verbs
• Game to practice verbal tenses
• Game to create sentences
• Game to practice a grammar review
• Game to practice how to tell the time
• Game to practice food vocabulary
• Game to practice London culture and symbols
• Each game includes some possible rules to be applied. Some of them are easier for lower levels while others are to be applied in higher ones.

Here there are some examples of how to use it in class:

• Speaking: ask students to answer to the requirements orally.
• Reading: ask students to read a text, book, novel, comic... and write questions about it on the game board.
• Writing: ask students to answer to the requirements in written form or that write an essay about what they have learnt and how they have felt while playing the game.
• Listening: ask students to listen to an audio, video, song... and write questions about it on the game board.
• Vocabulary: put pictures of the vocabulary seen in class or write the English word or the translation on the game board.
• Culture: explain students something about a country, legend, festivity... and write questions on the game board or put photos of symbols.

As you can see, it can be very easily adaptable to every level and content. It can be played in pairs or small groups. You can give them the solutions of the requirements to check if they have said it right or ask the other partners of the group to decide if the answer is right or wrong (this strengthens cooperative learning)

Hope you and your students like it!