The dice game: a fun, low-prep speaking game

UPDATE: This blog post has been awarded the 'Blog Award for Innovative Teaching Ideas' by Teaching English British Council for the month of April 2017.

A fun game to revise the question form of past simple and of course... to speak 🇬🇧!!!

Level: elementary

Age of students: Children, teenagers, adults

Aim of the game: Practising past simple forms

What you need: a dice each 3 students

*You can adapt easily this game to meet your students' needs. For example, it can also be used to practise present simple and frequency adverbs.

Rules of the game
1) Think of 6 actions you did yesterday.

2) Write them down.

3) Work in groups of 3.

4) In turn, roll the dice and read out the sentence that corresponds to the number you got.

E.g. I roll the dice and I get 1. I read out the sentence "I ate fish and chips".

5) The other two learners in the group need to make up a suitable question for my answer.

E.g. Question by Maria: " What did you eat for lunch yesterday?"

Question by Francesco: "What did you eat for dinner yesterday?"

6) The student who rolled the dice decides which question is the most suitable for their answer. 

7) The learner(s) who guessed the correct question get(s) as many points as the spots on the face of the dice)

E.g. In this case Maria got 1 point because I had fish and chips for lunch.

Some feedback

My students and I loved this game because:

- it was a good way to drill the question form of past simple;

- they practiced irregular verbs;

- and finally, they got some points to become the best student of the month 😜