North America Game Cards

Product Description

85 printable game cards on the Canada, Mexico and United States of America lessons in the Countries of the World series, with a sentence structure sheet to practice grammar in a fun way.

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This product contains the following files:

• 85 playing card-size printable cards with names of countries, cities and other places (8.5 pages, 10 cards per page)
• Printable list of all the places with phonetic pronunciation
• Sheet with question-and-answer sentence structures for the 12 tenses, with more advanced example sentences plus a list of almost 150 travel/places-related verbs

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Examples of question-answer sequences:

“Who went to Cancun last year?”
“I went to Cancun last year.”

“Who was watching a program about Banff National Park until midnight?”
“I was watching a program about Banff National Park until midnight.”

“Who had already been to Times Square when they went there with their friends?”
“I had already been to Times Square when I went there with my friends.”

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The grammar sentence structures in this sheet can be used with most sets of cards published by Essential Language Resources.

STEP 1: Choose what tenses and/or sentence structures you want to review with your students. (See OPTIONS in the “Countries of the World – Grammar Practice” PDF.)

STEP 2: Write the sentence structure(s) on the board for reference and a quick review, or print copies of the page in the PDF entitled, “12 Tenses: Simple Sentence Structures” to hand to students.

STEP 3: Shuffle the cards.

STEP 4: Keep one card (or if a student shuffled the cards, he/she should hand one card to the teacher without looking at it).

STEP 5: Distribute the cards among the students, with each student (hopefully) getting a handful of cards. The cards can be placed face-up on the desk, or the students can hold the cards in their hands.

STEP 6: Start the game by asking a question about the country, city or place at the bottom of the card you held back. IMPORTANT: Ignore the name at the top of the card.

STEP 7: Students listen carefully to hear if they have the card with the place asked about. If they have, they answer the question with the grammatically appropriate statement. They then ask a question about the place at the bottom half of the same card.

STEP 8: Once a student has answered and asked questions using both names on a card, they can turn the card over.

The game continues until all place names have been called. The first student to turn over all their cards, wins the game.

If necessary, the teacher can correct pronunciation of place names.

Please note that the statement at the top of the card with which the game begins is the answer to the FINAL question that would be asked. Since that would be the final question, the student with that particular card will be the last to turn over their final card. It is therefore important not to let anyone know what the final question would be until the end.

Also included in the PDF is a list of travel-related verbs. For more advanced students, of for a more challenging review, choose a number of verbs and specific sentence structures for a round with the Countries of the World cards

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List of places on the cards

Alaska
Alberta
Arizona
Banff National Park
Boston
British Columbia
Calgary
California
Canada
Cancun
Central Park
Chiapas
Chicago
Chihuahua
Ciudad Juarez
Colorado
Dallas
Disneyland
(the) District of Columbia
Durango
Edmonton
(the) Empire State Building
Florida
(the) Golden Gate Bridge
(the) Grand Canyon
Grand Central Terminal
Guadalajara City
Guanajuato
Halifax
Houston
Illinois
Jalisco
(the) Las Vegas Strip
León
Lincoln Park
Los Angeles
Manitoba
Mexico
Mexico City
Miami
Michigan
Michoacán
Montana
Monterrey
Montreal
Nevada
New Brunswick
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York City
Newfoundland
(the) Niagara Falls
(the) North Pole
Nova Scotia
Oaxaca
Ontario
Ottawa
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Puebla City
Quebec
Quebec City
Regina
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Saskatchewan
Sonora
Sumidero Canyon National Park
Texas
(the) White House
Tijuana
Times Square
Toronto
(the) United States of America/
(the) USA
Vancouver
Veracruz
Victoria
Washington, D.C.
Winnipeg
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yucatán

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