The purpose of this card game is to practise forming questions and short answers using the passive voice in the present simple, past simple, and future simple.

This game is a version of the classic card game Go Fish, in which students aim to find pairs of identical cards and collect as many pairs as possible.

The teacher should print two copies of the resource. The cards are shuffled and then dealt so that each student has five cards (seven in small groups and three in larger groups). The remaining cards are placed face down in a pile in the centre of the table.

Students take turns to play the game. One by one, each student asks a classmate if they have a particular card by asking the question written on their card (e.g. “Is the homework checked by the teacher every week?”). If that classmate has the matching card, they must reply with the corresponding short answer (e.g. “Yes, it is.”) and hand it over. However, if the classmate does not have the card, they will respond with a negative short answer (e.g. “No, it isn’t.”). The other students will then say, “Go Fish,” and the student who asked the question will take one card from the pile.

The game continues until all the cards have been paired. The student with the most pairs at the end is declared the winner.