Shove Ha’penny.

  

Shove Ha’penny.
Subject	Any vocabulary or structure should work with this game.
Richard’s comments.	Based on a traditional pub game in England. Do yourself a favour and look it up. The obstacle idea and the penalties idea came from bar billiards too.
Group size:	As you will be clustered around a table, keep the group size down to six or eight. Four would be ideal.
Team teaching game?	One supervisor will be sufficient.
Materials	Laminated paper strip with lines drawn on it. In each section is the picture or word prompt. (If you don’t want to go through the preparation phase, you could draw lines on a table with chalk.) Team markers red on one side blue on the other. Something to slide. Coins, playing cards. Bottle lids. (I use the plastic lids from a certain ice cream company with a European sounding name.
Game set up.	Divide into teams. Tape the paper strip on a table. Go through the vocabulary/structures as you place down the prompts and lay out the markers.
Playing rules.	The blue team is aiming for squares containing red markers. The red team is aiming for squares with blue markers. Shove the coin (I’ll call it a coin) and make your sentence according to the area the coin stops in. If you are successful in landing on an opponent marker, turn the marker to show your teams colour and award yourself the relevant points. At the end, add the points with team markers to find the winner.
Variations.	You could try a carpet-based version using tin lids or playing cards sliding them on the carpet. Give extra points for successful predictions.
Try obstacles on the board and high score bonuses with extra questions. If the obstacles are left free to fall if struck penalties can be awarded. Oh the options…