2D Shapes / 2D Shapes: Small Talk Game for English Class

The Smalltalk Game is a board game for English lessons in which children move around a game board and answer English questions about geometric shapes, such as “How many corners does a trapezoid have?” or “What shape is a stop sign?”. In addition to the sides and corners of shapes such as square, triangle, or parallelogram, it also covers shapes in everyday life, from traffic signs to clocks and slices of pizza.

What is included

• Game board with start and end spaces, 21 question spaces in English and 4 action spaces, which skip a turn or move two spaces forward or backward
• Game instructions in German, explaining how to play and the objective of the game

Tips for using the material

• For two or in a group: The game can be played by two or more people.
• How to play: Players take turns rolling the dice and moving around the board; whoever lands on a space with a question or task answers the question or carries out the task, and the first person to reach the end space wins.

These skills are developed

• Vocabulary: English names for geometric shapes such as square, rectangle, triangle, or trapezoid
• Speaking: understanding English questions and answering them in conversation

On the same topic, there are also the Smalltalk Cards, a Memo Game, and a Drawing Game.