PLAY FOR THE PLANET

WHAT IS IT?

Play for the Planet is a board game with an illustrated playing board where players move along a path that contains information about an eco-friendly lifestyle in order to reach the finish square.

Language Aims

The game allows students to practise vocabulary related to the environment: recycling, renewable energy, organic agriculture and food. The understanding and sharing of this information in order to play the game, help to make the learning process, revision and correct use of English language structures and vocabulary, a fun and enjoyable experience.

Contents

The game includes 60 photographic cards, 72 game cards, a playing board with 100 spaces and a dice

Distance Learning

Thanks to all of the elements and features on the cards, the game is also a perfect educational tool to use during online classes and courses. The 60 photographic cards are excellent to stimulate observation and descriptive skills. The 72 question cards can be the starting point for a fun quiz game that can be played remotely.

WHAT IS IT?

Around the City is a lively board game based on the observation of illustrations and the exploration of lexical themes related to the city.

Language Aims

The game allows students to learn, memorise and develop their knowledge of lexical sets related to urban features, shops, places in town and services, means of transport, road signs and road safety.

Contents

The game includes 132 cards divided into six decks with a variety of activities, plus one deck of penalty cards. It also includes a playing board and a dice.

Distance Learning

Although the game was designed to be played in the classroom, most of the cards (both the multiple-choice ones and the true or false ones) don’t require a physical presence, so they can be used to create a fun activity based on questions and answers also during online classes or courses.

WHAT IS IT?

Sentence Maker! is a fun board game that helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of verb tenses.

Language Aims

The game helps students to improve their comprehension and production skills and to form sentences using time expressions and different tenses: past simple, present simple, present continuous, future simple. It also expands English vocabulary related to everyday verbs.

Contents

The game includes a playing board with 66 spaces (each space shows a verb in the infinitive), 66 cards with time expressions, a numbered dice in order to advance along the board, a dice with personal pronouns, a dice showing one affirmative, one negative, one interrogative and one continuous form and counters.

Distance Learning

Despite the typical features of a traditional board game, Sentence Maker! can also be used as a tool for alternative learning during online classes and courses. The cards with time expressions and the verbs included in the playing board can be useful prompts to form correct and complete sentences.

WHAT IS IT?

English Championship can be used by the teacher in the classroom or at home to challenge friends in a fun test of general knowledge to figure out who is more familiar with the English language and culture of the English-speaking world via questions about history, culture and traditions, geography, civics, common expressions, nature and free time.

Language Aims

The game helps to familiarise students with the language and culture of the English-speaking world, to expand their range of vocabulary and knowledge via interesting questions. It also helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of language and grammar structures related to specific topics.

Contents

The game includes a playing board with a track marked with the five colours of the Olympic rings: red for Culture (art, music, cinema, literature); green for Geography; black for History (traditions, school, social education and road safety); yellow for Healthy Living (free time, food for a healthy diet and lifestyle, sport); blue for Nature (science, animals, technology, astrology). It also includes 132 cards divided into two different levels of difficulty: red cards for easier questions and blue cards for more difficult questions, a dice and 60 coloured counters

Distance Learning

All of the cards can be easily used, without changing them, to create a fun and engaging quiz game. Therefore, English Championship maintains the goal for which it was designed, even if it is used during online classes and courses.