Pronunciation - One Piece Board Game
By Melissa Noad
Files
- Pronunciation - One Piece Board Game - Board and Pieces
- Pronunciation - One Piece Board Game - Sentence Cards
- Pronunciation - One Piece Board Game - Card Backs and Blanks
- Pronunciation Trees
- Pronunciation Trees - Large Size
Instructions
Warning: lots of preparation here! You can print in black and white if you only have a few classes to do this with. For many classes, you will want to make this last!
- Print everything out.
- Laminate the game board with extra large laminating film.
- Match up the word cards and their corresponding backing, glue them together, cut them out, laminate, and cut them out again.
- Cut out the ships, laminate them, and cut them out again. Laminate some small coloured circles (about the size of a dime), cut them out, and hot glue them to the bottoms of the ships so that they stand on the board.
Directions
Go over L/R, TH, and V/B sounds with them, as this game focusses on those. I like to draw images on the board of the mouth from the side to show how the sounds are made. You can also use your hands by shaping one hand like the top of the mouth with teeth, and the other as the tongue. Next, I test them with the pronunciation trees. You can even have your kids read some of the answers and have you, the teacher, guess which one they are saying. I cover my mouth when I test them to force them to listen without looking. I use the large pronunciation tree pages and a highlighter to give the answers to the students on the board so they can see them easily.
Instructions for Play:
- Students will make groups of no more than 5 people (unless you want to add more cards).
- Students will choose a ship and put it on a yellow circle.
- Students will roll a die and move their piece towards a harbour of an island or monster. The harbour is the coloured spot. Students cannot simply jump to the island from anywhere.
- If the student does not make it to the harbour on their roll, they have to say the word that they land on for pronunciation practice.
- If the student does make it to the harbour, they take the corresponding card, go to a teacher, and try to say the sentence on the card with correct pronunciation. If it is not correct, the teacher will help the student say the word correctly. Once the student does this right, they can keep the card.
- The student with the most cards wins the game.
I worried about this game stressing kids out and making them not confident with the language, but it ended out being the opposite. They had a blast using their tongue and seeing if they could say things perfectly. They were bursting with confidence at the end, and had a good laugh at themselves if they stumbled on some words. It was a really positive lesson and they had a lot of fun playing (even if they didn't like One Piece).
