The tug of war game.

  

The tug of war game.
Subject	Basic questions.
Richard’s comments.	I designed the game to practice basic questions, but it will work with vocabulary and structures too.
Group size:	Suitable for all class sizes but getting everyone involved will, as always, be the challenge.
Team teaching game?	This game can be played with one teacher.

 

Materials	The tug of war rope and point band. The lower scale can just be squares or could have words or pictures in each square. The upper section (The two ‘teams’) should be free to move laterally up and down the scale.   A dice. Suitable basic questions or other topic focus cards.  A simple game using the flash cards can be played on the carpet. See ‘variations’ below.

 

Game set up.	Simply played at the table with the ‘tug of war’ game on the board. Don’t forget the carpet version. See ‘variations’ below.
Playing rules.	In two teams. Alternate turns. Answer a basic question and throw the dice. Pull the ‘rope’ the correct number of squares towards you. After a fixed number of throws judge who has pulled the furthest. (Or award the win to the first team to pull the marker to their end.) If necessary, you can play more than one round.

 

Variations.