Present Simple- Personalised Board Game

Present Simple personalised board game

Sports/

Exercise

Shopping

Language

learning

Travel

START

In the morning

Health

Instructions

Choose something to be a counter for each

person in your group, for example different

erasers or coins. Place all of them on the START

square. Decide who will go first. People must

make true statements about other people in their

group (or those people’s friends, family etc.) as

described in the square that they are on or using

the words that are written in that square. How

many true sentences they can make without

saying something wrong will decide how many

spaces they can move around the board. If they

say something which isn’t true or if they reach six

true statements, they have to stop speaking and

can move the number of squares of the number

of true statements that they said before that. For

example:

A: “You brush your teeth in the morning.”

B: “That’s true.”

A: “And you look at the BBC website in the

morning.”

C: “That’s right!”

A: “And I think you use floss in the morning.”

C: “No, that’s not true. I never use floss. You can

move two squares. Now it’s my turn.”

Play then passes to the next person.

The person who has gone furthest around the

board when the game stops is the winner.

Different groups can go clockwise or

anticlockwise around the board, so that you aren’t

all speaking about the same topic at the same

time.

Afternoon

habits

Friends

In the evening

Family

On holiday

Cook

On Sundays

Housework

At lunchtime/

For lunch

Clothes/

Fashion

Housework

Charity

Money

Green habits

TV

Drink

Music

Eat

Internet

Homework

At work

With friends/

family

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2014