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General topics

Route 66

Laurence Bernard

Literature

E. A. Poe: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1839); The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

Arthur Miller: Death Of A Salesman (1949)

Climate Change

The city

Cinema

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise: West Sise Story (1961)

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The objective is to review the concepts and vocabulary covered in class and to encourage students to speak.

The students have two dice, but they can also use only one die.

If you are playing with a paper version, each player (or each team) also has tokens of the team’s colour that he/she can place on the squares once their answer has been validated by the designated game master (or by the teacher).

If you are projecting the game on a board in class, you do not use any tokens, you can simply agree on a code to be written on the validated square (a circle for one team, a cross for the other team, etc.).

Each player or team throws the two dice in turn: the first die thrown corresponds to a line, the second die thrown corresponds to a column. The selected square is therefore at the intersection. Of course, you can use only one die that you roll twice ...

The teams/players must make an oral statement in relation to the illustration on the selected square. If the production is validated, the team/player is allowed to place a token on the square. Otherwise, the hand passes and either the other team proposes something for the same square or the other team rolls the dice.

The winner is the one who has placed the most tokens of his or her colour on the board, either after a limited time (15-20 minutes), or when all the squares are covered with a token, or when it comes to 3, 4 or 5 tokens, you decide! You can imagine all sorts of rules, depending on the level of the students, the size of the group, the objectives. We can also provide a board and 2 dice per team and let the students develop their own rules of the game.

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The City

airport (n.)

park (n.)

garden (n.)

leisure park (n.)

architecture (n.)

monument (n.)

landmark (n.)

prison (n.)

garden (n.)

park (n.)

leisure park (n.)

factory (n.)

workshop (n.)

cinema (n.)

movie theater (n.)

bank (n.)

library (n.)

market (n.)

stall (.n)

street vendor (n.)

building (n.)

restaurant (n.)

church (n.)

pier (n.)

river bank (n.)

police station (n.)

supermarket (n.)

grocery store (n.)

city hall (n.)

bar (n.)

pub (n.)

gas station (n.)

petrol station (n.)

university (n.)

college (n.)

stadium (n.)

arena (n.)

bowling (n.)

clinic (n.)

medical clinic (n.)

hospital (n.)

office (n.)

bus stop (n.)

bus station (n.)

coach station (n.)

museum (n.)

gallery (n.)

mall (n.)

shopping mall (n.)

court (n.)

hospital (n.)

post-office (n.)

statue (n.)

monument (n.)

landmark (n.)

railway station (n.)

train station (n.)

underground/subway station (n.)

cathedral (n.)

sports ground (n.)

football ground (n.)

playground (n.)

fire station (n.)

school (n.)

London

The Bank of England

Westminster Abbey

PLAY TWICE

The Gherkin

Madame Tussaud's

The Shard

Hyde Park

Regent's Park

Big Ben

The Tate Modern

Theatre

The Globe Theatre

The West End

PLAY TWICE

Kensington Palace

pound

Speaker's corner

Windsor Castle

map of London

Thames river

red bus

double-decker bus

The British Museum

China Town

Soho

Admiral Nelson's Column

Trafalgar Square

The Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

The House of Parliament (+ Big Ben)

Westminster

Tower Bridge

black taxi

black cab

The O2 Arena

PLAY TWICE

Marble Arch

The UK

Great Britain

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

The London Eye

a wheel

The Tate Gallery

The Underground

The Tube

PLAY TWICE

The British flag

The Union Jack

The City Hall

school

Route 66

ride (v.), rider (n.)

bike (n.) , biker (n.)

The state of Texas

The Mojave desert

Highway (n.)

The Mother Road (n.)

The state of Oklahoma

mountain (n.)

gas station (US) (n.)

petrol station (GB) (n.)

billboard (n.)

drive (v.), driver (n.)

The state of Illinois

road sign (n.)

diner (n.)

The state of Kansas

car (n.)

Cadillac (n.)

The state of California

Chicago, Illinois

Bobby Troup , Nat King Cole , "Get Your Kicks on Route 66"

music (n.)

wind (v.)

curve (n.)

bridge (n.)

The USA

The United States of America

motel (n.)

build (v.)

sunrise (n.)

literature (n.)

John Steinbeck , The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Jack Kerouac , On the Road (1957)

New Mexico

Wigwam motel (n.)

Drive-in theater (n.)

sunset (n.)

From ... to ... (prep.)

Chicago, Los Angles

cross (v.)

Missouri

California

Los Angeles

Santa Monica

pier (n.)

Pacific Ocean

Holiday (n.)

Gateway Arch

St Louis, Missouri

Arizona

close (v.)

television (n.)

series (n.)

Climate Change

warning

danger

to be endangered

to melt

the ice

a polar-bear

The North Pole

to pollute

to emit

emission

CO2

pollution

exhaust fumes

a car

to chop down

to cut

tree

forest

wood

fire-wood

Carbon dioxide

emissions

conference

meeting

United Nations

drought

oil

oil well

fossil fuel

clean energy

factories

industry

industrial pollution

flood

to be flooded

to burn

gas

snow caps

the ice is melting

hurricane

cyclone

violent storm

natural disaster

temperature

to rise

global warming

the heat

the weather

the ozone layer

the water cycle

a global issue

to plant

to protect

nature

the sea

the ocean

to rise

flood

to be flooded

solar energy

solar panels

the ice

to melt

to recycle

a nuclear site

nuclear energy

rainfall

rain

pollution

to pollute

to dump

pollutant

chemical

oil spill

iceberg

ice

to switch off

to turn off

the light

aplliances

coal

coal mine

mine

wind (n.)

energy (n.)

turbine (n.)

renewable (adj.)

clean (adj.)

nature

rise (v.)

temperature (n.)

hot (adj.)

warm (adj.)

gas (n.)

emission (n.)

pollution (n.)

CO2, Carbon dioxide (n.)

time

global warming

temperatures

to rise

degree

methane

meat

Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

the eye

the vulture eye

a brother - a sister - twins

friends

to dismember

body part

leg

a ghost

to haunt

the heart

the heart beat

to cut

to dismember

to be frightened / to be afraid

to fear

to be frightening

to frighten

fear

terror

blood

the floor

the floor-boards

the heavens

The house of Usher

lantern

light

a disease

death

to die

to be dead

the old man

bed

bedroom

to sleep

mad

madness

insane

insanity

cotton

twins

brother - sister

Frederick and Madeline Usher

a wall

the police

a police-officer

the mind

the soul

a bath-tub

midnight

a vulture

a vulture eye

the tarn

an arch

a watch

an eye-like window

a storm

to bury

a coffin

evil

The Devil

you

the reader

to callapse

to fall

cracks

The Fall of the House of Usher

light

darkness

The author

The writer

Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Miller

Death Of A Salesman, 1949

the car; the old Chevvy ; the Studebaker

to drive

stockings

the house; the Loman's home; the mortgage

"a silver athletic trophy" ; a sports cup

a suitcase; a valise

the dollar ; a dollar-bill; money; bill; salary

a family; the Lomans;

education; university; graduation

maths

a hotel-room (in Boston)

The USA;

Alaska

road

a rubber-pipe

fruit; fruit-peel

a diamond

Africa

elm trees

flute

wire-recorder

fridge

seeds; to plant; to grow (carrots, peas, etc.)

apartment buildings

well-liked; popular; famous

popularity; fame

love

love-affair

to cry

theater; stage

a play; a playwright

Broadway

death; grave; to die

New-York

memory; reminiscence; flashback;

to remember; to recall;

the past

football

flowers

the garden

the office

Arthur Miller

playwright

Brooklyn;

bridge

dream

Jerome Robbins

Robert Wise

West Side Story (1961)

bridal store, wedding store

window

knife, weapons, to stab, violence

candy store, Doc's, drugstore

skip a turn

fight, rumble, opposition, violence

love at first sight

immigration, immigrants, migration, migrate

territory, opposition, division

cop, police, Krupke

dance, dancing, Mambo, ball, ...

music, musical, songs, lyrics, ...

street(s)

Jets

Broadway, theater

prejudice, discrimination, racial prejudice, racial discrimination

choose your square

gang(s), rivalry, rivals, enemies..

movie, film

marry, marriage, wedding, groom, bride, mock-wedding, arranged wedding

forgive, pray

sharks

throw dice again

the Gym

to shoot down, to kill, gun, violence

America, The USA

Puerto Rico, Puerto-Rican(s)

roof-top

skip a turn

fire escape, exit stairs

to die, death

choose your square

New York city

play ground, sports ground

forbidden love, secret love

prejudice, to be prejudiced against, to hate, hatred,

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