Language aim: polite requests in English; food and drink vocabulary.
preparation
Print out playing cards. If you want, you can stick the printout onto the heavy paper. Laminate for future use.
Cut out the individual cards, fold them and glue. Learn more how to prepare our cards (pdf). They are double-sided with tasks on one side and colourful patterns on the other.
Before playing the game revise or pre-teach the names of all the items on the playing cards.
Our printables are in pdf format. To download them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
how to play
This is a game adapted from the traditional game Go Fish! The object is to collect sets of four cards of the same rank, by asking other players for cards you think they may have. Whoever collects most sets wins.
The dealer shuffles and deals 4 cards to each player.
Players take turns asking one other player if he or she has a card. If they have it your turn continues; if not the turn passes to the player you asked. For example, Can I have a carrot, please? / Sorry, go fish!
You must have a card of the rank you asked for. Sets of 4 cards are discarded.
The game continues until all the cards are formed into sets, and whoever gets most sets wins.