Think Before You Start - Discuss
What board games do you know or have you played?
If you could take one board game with you to a desert island, what would it be and why?
Get the transcriptQuick-Fire Questions
- What’s your favourite board game, and why?
- What are the benefits of playing board games?
- Board games or video games: which are better, and why?
- If you invented a new board game, what would it be like?
Key Words -
Can you use them in a sentence?
Board Game: a tabletop game that involves moving pieces around a board following a set of rules.
Skill: the ability to perform an action well and efficiently.
Be The Teacher -
Fix this broken sentence!
bored games are populer because their enjoyable interactive and create a fun sense of compitition.
Stretch Yourself...
Write a short newspaper article about board games becoming more popular again. Why might this happen?
Go Create...
Design a game that can be played with multiple people in the same room. Can the game be both board game and video game?

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