How the World Has Changed: Present Perfect Board Game

Engage your students with the How the World Has Changed board game, designed to help them use the present perfect tense in a fun and interactive way. This versatile game is perfect for both online and in-person classrooms, making it easily printable or projectable on a screen or whiteboard.

Game Overview:

• The activity includes a game board, scoring mechanism, and vocabulary related to trends and change.
• Divide your students into three teams, providing each with a game piece to place at the starting position.
• Teams take turns navigating a web of topics, moving only between connected bubbles. For each bubble, a team member must create a grammatically correct sentence using the present perfect to describe a change associated with the topic.
• Teams earn a point for each correct response, with vocabulary provided to inspire language use. If a debate or conversation sparks, let it flow naturally!
• The first team to reach 10 points wins!

Enhance the Challenge: To deepen their understanding of change, encourage students to use “used to” alongside the present perfect. This allows for a comprehensive exploration of changes, discussing both past and present states, and can even be made more challenging by forming negative sentences!

Why It Works: This game not only reinforces the present perfect tense but also allows students to articulate changes in a clear and concise manner. It’s an engaging way to understand how to use essential English structures while promoting teamwork and discussion.

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