What will my ESL young learners learn?

There are several variations so you can easily differentiate the skills practice. Choose the text to text or text to picture options if you want to practise literacy skills, or choose the picture to picture options for children who aren’t reading yet.

The ‘make your own’ dominoes sets allow you to provide even more practice as they make their own copies of the dominoes to take home and play.

Depending on how you conduct the activity, your students also get plenty of practice of their listening and speaking skills.

Don’t forget the valuable classroom language you’ll be helping them learn. See a summary below:

baseball, basketball, cycling, football, golf, hockey, table tennis, tennis, rollerskating, running, volleyball, karate, swimming, yoga

painting, drawing, singing, listening to music, playing the piano, playing the guitar, playing chess, dancing, playing card games, collecting cards, playing board games, playing video games, playing with blocks, reading

While not essential to play the game, you may want to help your learners acquire and/or use the following  structures:

• ‘can’ for ability

e.g. I can paint. Can you do it? I can do it.

• 3rd person personal pronouns

e.g. He, She, They

• present simple with verb collocations

e.g. She paints. They play video games. He plays the piano.

• present continuous

e.g. She is drawing. They are playing a board game.

• like + -ing

e.g. I like collecting cards… / I like/don’t like/don’t mind/hate…