Games we play

 

• Choose 2 games to speak about.
• Explain the rules. What do you have to do?
• How many players can play?
• Why do you think it's popular?

Which of these games have

• a ball?
• a board?
• a table?
• a field?
• a cue?
• a goal?
• a grid?
• chips?
• cards?
• skittles?
• dice

1. Where do you need special equipment?
2. Where do you have to make fast decisions?
3. What other 3 games would you add to the list?
4. How do games influence our culture?
5. Do you think we should start treating e-sports as seriously as traditional sports?
6. What’s the future of gaming in your opinion?

Look at the words. Try to predict what the video is going to be about.

Watch and check:

Match two halves of a phrase:

colourful	priced
walk	in need
drag	plaything
those	past
go in	their parents into the shop
make	Who
Doctor	Wars
Star	the bin
community	donations
a teddy	centers
Christmas	to cuddle
reasonably	Eve

Use the word combinations to tell the story about the toy charity.

Read the sentences, find idioms and try to explain:

1. He played on her emotions.
2. Stop playing about. You are a grown up boy now.
3. Luck came into play.
4. She needs a loan, but the banks won’t play.
5. We didn't have a plan, so we played it by ear.
6. She was seriously ill but she played it down.
7. The words he said were meant to hurt his rivals but surprisingly they played into their hands.
8. Don't come up to the angry dog! Don't play with fire.

Tell about yourself:

• something came into play when you were not expecting
• somebody played down something important to you
• somebody played on your emotions
• you wanted your friends to join you in some activity but they wouldn't play
• the last time you were playing about
• somebody who played with fire and it made you sick
• something played into your hands
• something you tend to play by ear instead of planning it