The Tower Game

Language Focus: All skill

Usage Level: All Level

Notes:

This game will teach the children how to answer and respond on instructions well. The competition makes it more interesting, since they can also play in groups.

Materials:

1. List of words in theme of learning

2. You can use any type of block from large plastic bricks to dominoes

3. stopwatch

Method:

1. Play a game like the Ball and Music game or stopwatch

2. The person chosen answers a question and if they are correct they come to the front and has 5 seconds to build their tower as high as possible.

3. Repeat from 1.

4. At the end of the time, the team with the tallest tower is the winner!

The good part is that if one team's tower falls, then they have to start again with what's left. This means that weaker teams always have the chance of beating better teams!

The 5 second time limit is very important as it keeps the game moving. The kids also have to think a bit, either placing one block on safely, or maybe taking a risk in trying to put on 2 blocks!

You can do this with up to 4 teams.

One brilliant way to play this is the "Double Stopwatch Tower Game". This is similar to the stopwatch game. But this time you have 2 circles. When you say "Go", one person in each team asks a question to the next person in their circle. The fastest team to have the question goes round the circle wins. They do the tower building bit. Then do the question asking part again, this time starting from the next person in the circle. Of course the teams have to have equal numbers. In Junior High try this using the questions "What did you do yesterday?" or "What will you do tomorrow?" In Elementary school you can use "What's your name?" or "Do you like .....?" or whatever!

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