10 Countries of the World Game Cards

Product Description

89 printable game cards on 10 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:

• 89 playing card-size printable cards with names of countries, cities and other places (9 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 Japan last year?”

“I went to Japan last year.”

“Who was watching a program about Italy until midnight?”

“I was watching a program about Italy until midnight.”

“Who had already seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa when they went there with their friends?”

“I had already seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa when I went there with my friends.”

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These game cards work well as review for the following lessons:

• Canada
• China
• France
• India
• Italy
• Japan
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• United States of America

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Instructions to the teacher

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

Auckland
Beijing
California
Canada
Cape Town
Cardiff
Chicago
China
Christchurch
(the) Colosseum
Disneyland
(the) District of Columbia
East Asia
Edinburgh
(the) Eiffel Tower
England
Florida
(the) Forbidden City
France
(the) Ganges River
(the) Grand Canyon
Great Britain
(the) Great Wall of China
Guangzhou
Hong Kong
India
Italy
Japan
Johannesburg
Kolkata
(the) Kruger National Park
Kyoto
(the) Leaning Tower of Pisa
Liverpool
London
Los Angeles
(the) Louvre Art Museum
Macao
Manchester
Marseilles
Mexico
Miami
Milan
Montreal
Mount Fuji
Mumbai
Nagoya
Naples
New Delhi
New York
New Zealand
(the) Niagara Falls
Nice
(the) North Pole
Northern Ireland
(the) Notre Dame Cathedral
Osaka
Ottawa
(the) Palace at Versailles
Paris
Portugal
Rome
San Francisco
Scotland
Shanghai
South Africa
South East Asia
(the) South Pole
Southern Europe
Spain
St. Peter’s Basilica
(the) Summer Palace in Beijing
Switzerland
(the) Taj Mahal
Tokyo
Toronto
Tower Bridge
(the) Tower of London
(the) United Kingdom
(the) United States of America
Vancouver
(the) Vatican City
Venice
Wales
Washington, D.C.
Wellington
(the) Western Cape
Western Europe
Yokohama

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