collectif

ELI Language Games - What’s The Weather Like?

What is it?

What’s the weather like? is an engaging and entertaining card game which helps players to learn and practise the vocabulary used to describe and forecast the weather.

Language Objectives

The game helps players to broaden their weather related vocabulary and stimulates logical thinking. As they play the game, players increase their knowledge and comprehension of both oral and written English.

Contents

The game consists of a map of the United Kingdom, 60 weather symbols and 100 cards.

The cards are divided into 30 weather cards (yellow deck) and 70 Mr Breezy cards (blue deck).

;The instruction booklet contains instructions and suggestions for various ways of using the game in the classroom, at home or during online lessons.

ELI Language Games - The Quartet Game

What is it?

The Quartet Game is an engaging fun card game that helps students to learn useful everyday vocabulary and practise new words.

Language Objectives

This game allows students to expand their vocabulary, improve their comprehension and develop their logical-reasoning ability, helping them to boost their overall written and oral knowledge of the English language.

Contents

The game consists of 132 cards divided into 32 quartets and 4 jokers. Each card shows the name and picture of one element of the quartet, the name of the set it belongs to and a picture of the other three elements of the quartet.

The instruction booklet contains instructions and tips about the many different ways to use this game − for lessons either in a classroom or at home, or for distance learning during online courses or lessons.

ELI Language Games - Let's Party!

WHAT IS IT?

Who wouldn’t want to join a party in the garden? Let’s party! Presents a range of planning activities for a birthday party. The aim of the game is to match pictures and sentences while conjugating verb tenses correctly.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn and reinforce 48 regular and irregular English verbs by conjugating them in the present, past and future forms.

CONTENTS

The game includes 48 domino cards divided into two parts: each card has an illustrated action on the left-hand side and a sentence with the verb in the infinitive on the right-hand side. By correctly matching each picture and the corresponding text, the students can complete the domino pathway.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The domino cards can be used without limitation also during online classes and courses. The accurate and detailed pictures are an excellent tool to stimulate observation skills and can also be used to learn to describe what is shown on the cards. Also, the right-hand side with the written sentences can be a very useful resource to practise verbs and can be a starting point to conjugate verbs in whichever form the teacher requests.

ELI Language Games - Who’s Who?

What is it?

Who’s Who? is a useful card game in which players guess the names of the people on the cards by asking and answering questions about physical appearance. The cards depict people of different ages and with different physical characteristics. It is a fun way to learn the vocabulary and structures related to physical description.

Language aims

The players learn to observe and describe facial characteristics using elementary English vocabulary and structures.

Contents

The game contains 132 cards divided into two decks, containing 66 cards each. The cards are the same in both decks, but the colour of the reverse side is different. There is a picture of a person and a name on each card.

ELI Language Games - The Emotions Game

What is it?

The Emotions Game is an engaging card game which helps players to understand and express their own emotions, recognise emotions in others, as well as to learn and distinguish between different emotions.

Language Objectives

The aim of the game is to help learn vocabulary related to emotions in English and practice using the language structures necessary to express them.

Contents

The game consists of 132 cards (66 situation cards, 18 emotion cards, 36 action cards and 6 jokers, 3 game cards indicating how the game should be played and 3 time cards). There is also 1 die depicting the six emotions and 60 numbered tokens.

ELI Language Games - Verb Draughts

What is it?

Verb Draughts is a game which is inspired by the classic game of Draughts and can be used by players with varying levels of English. There are 4 different draught boards to choose from.

Language Objectives

Players move the pieces on the board to try and eliminate their opponent. As they move across the board they practise using the verbs they find along the way.

Contents

The game includes 4 draught boards (for different categories of verbs), 30 black pieces and 30 white pieces, 6 cards with subject pronouns, 4 cards with sentence types and 10 cards with verb forms.

• The instruction booklet contains instructions and suggestions on how to use the game in the classroom or at home with friends.

Words In Pictures (Printed Flashcards With Digital Code)

Words in Pictures is a set of 240 illustrated cards. Each card features a picture on one side and the corresponding written word on the other side.

They are divided into lexical topics of high frequency and daily use: animals, the body, clothes, food and drink, health, at home, the city, school, sport and free time, time, toys and games, means of transport, the weather, jobs, the environment, actions and prepositions. This very large set of cards

Flashcards are an indispensable tool in language teaching, especially for beginner students (level A1): they provide a visual support to introduce new vocabulary and provide the stimulus for a variety of memory activities. The number of cards (240), their format (12x15) and the quality of the

One Photo, A Thousand Words - Speaking English With Pictures

A collection of 75 large photo cards, chosen to encourage an exchange of opinions and class discussion.

75 photos which illustrate environmental, social and personal themes and encourage students to speak, interact and exchange opinions with others. Students improve their comprehension, oral production and interactive skills in an interesting and stimulating way.

These cards are ideal for both group and pair work, and they can be used in online lessons.

On one side of each card there is:

The box contains:

ELI Language Games - The Great Game Of Numbers

What is it?

Language aims

Contents

ELI Language Games - Adjectives And Opposites

WHAT IS IT?

Adjectives & Opposites is a very simple, useful and enjoyable card game, based on observation and matching illustrated adjectives with corresponding opposite adjectives.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn, memorise and practise 130 commonly-used English adjectives in a fun and engaging way.

CONTENTS

The game includes 130 illustrated cards divided into two packs identifiable by the colour on the reverse side. Each card has very clear and detailed pictures with the adjective shown below. It also includes a Joker card and a Surprise card to make the game more dynamic and fun.

DISTANCE LEARNING

These cards are the perfect tool to use during online classes and courses: the super-detailed pictures can be described to stimulate observation skills and to develop speaking skills. It can also be used as a starting point to identify who are the fastest students to remember the opposite of the adjective shown.

ELI Language Games - Time For Dominoes

Time Dominoes is an A1-A2 level educational game in English that presents, in a playful and engaging way, a fundamental topic when learning a foreign language: the hours of the day.

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

CONTENTS

DISTANCE LEARNING

ELI Language Games - Triboo ELT

WHAT IS IT?

Triboo is a useful and challenging game based on the exchange of questions and answers, using keywords and clues to guess in the English language.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn and revise vocabulary, cultural and interdisciplinary elements of the English language.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards divided into six decks corresponding to six vocabulary and disciplinary categories: Science, History, Geography, Sport, Entertainment, Art and Literature. Other contents: a playing board, a dice, 15 counters.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The cards for matching words and pictures make this a perfect and useful tool during distance learning situations. The pictures can stimulate students’ descriptive skills and the questions with suggestions do not require the physical presence of students in order to be used. Therefore, this game is also perfect during online classes and courses.

ELI Language Games - Famous People from the Englishspeaking World

WHAT IS IT?

Famous People is a useful and fun card game, based on matching illustrated cards with famous English people and their corresponding identity cards.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn, memorise and practise high-frequency English language structures to identify and present a character in a fun, easy and engaging way.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards: 66 illustrated cards with pictures and 66 cards with brief identify information.

DISTANCE LEARNING

These cards are a valid tool also during online classes and courses because they provide a vast range of potential uses. Each picture of a famous person becomes an important conversation topic and each identity card is a prompt to learn who the characters are, what important things they have done, and in which sector they have made themselves known.

ELI Language Games - Fairy Tales in Games

WHAT IS IT?

Fairy Tales in Games is an educational and fun game which combines the telling of five traditional fairy tales with learning basic English vocabulary and grammar.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to memorise the wonderful and engaging contents of the selected fairy tales and to learn or revise the vocabulary and grammar elements included in each fairy tale: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, The Bremen Town Musicians and Hansel and Gretel.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards: 125 cards with questions and answers (25 cards for each fairy tale), 7 Special cards, a playing board with 5 paths, counters, coins, and a dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The playing board full of details and the cards with multiplechoice questions make this game an excellent, fun and stimulating tool which can be easily used during distance learning. During online classes and courses, the teacher can coordinate the game and the related educational activities by moving the counters along the playing board.

ELI Language Games - Play For The Planet

WHAT IS IT?

Play for the Planet is a board game with an illustrated playing board where players move along a path that contains information about an eco-friendly lifestyle in order to reach the finish square.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to practise vocabulary related to the environment: recycling, renewable energy, organic agriculture and food.

The understanding and sharing of this information in order to play the game, help to make the learning process, revision and correct use

of English language structures and vocabulary, a fun and enjoyable experience.

CONTENTS

The game includes 60 photographic cards, 72 game cards, a playing board with 100 spaces and a dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

Thanks to all of the elements and features on the cards, the game is also a perfect educational tool to use during online classes and courses. The 60 photographic cards are excellent to stimulate observation and descriptive skills. The 72 question cards can be the starting point for a fun quiz game that can be played remotely.

ELI Language Games - The Animal Kingdom

WHAT IS IT?

The animal kingdom is a card game where players have to identify, name and collect as many animals as possible on their list. The animals relate to a variety of categories: household pets, animals of the savannah, farm animals, forest animals, polar animals, mountain

animals, sea animals, jungle animals, and include different features: with two legs, with four legs, with fins, with wings, with ears, with horns, with a tail, with hooves, with fur, with feathers, but also carnivores, herbivores, invertebrates, mammals...

Using the multi-image boards, the game can be also used for playing bingo.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of vocabulary and language structures related to animals,

and expands students’ vocabulary via the presentation of animals within a stimulating and fun context: Where do they live? What do they look like? What do they eat?

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 photographic cards and 36 boards with lists of animals and bingo cards on the reverse side.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The photographic cards and the reversible boards are perfect tools to make this game an excellent resource to use during online classes and courses. For example, students can include the animals in sentences that describe their habits or they can assign the correct name to each picture included in the bingo boards.

ELI Language Games - Picture Bingo

Picture Bingo is based on the fun, well-known game of observation and matching.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps students learn and memorise 100 basic English words in a fun and enjoyable way. The words relate to a variety of lexical topics: animals, colours, shapes, food, household and school items, toys, clothes, nature, weather and means of transport.

CONTENTS

The game includes 100 cards with a picture on one side and the corresponding word on the reverse side, and 36 boards with

six pictures on one side and the six corresponding words on the reverse.

DISTANCE LEARNING

Dividing the game into multi-image boards and reversible cards with pictures and words allows for an alternative use of the material also during online classes and courses, such as assigning the correct name to each picture shown on the board or asking students to form a sentence by using all of the pictures on the board.

ELI Language Games - The Busy Day Dominoes

The Busy Day Dominoes is a fun and enjoyable game that presents the daily actions of the likeable character, Granny Fixit, from the moment she wakes up, to the moment she goes to bed. The aim of the game is to match the pictures and the sentences, conjugating the verbs in the correct form.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps students memorise and conjugate 48 high-frequency English verbs (regular and irregular verbs) in the present, past and future forms.

CONTENTS

The game includes 48 domino cards divided in two parts: each card has an enjoyable illustration on the lefthand side and a description on the right-hand side with a verb in the infinitive form. Students complete the dominoes path by matching the pictures and the corresponding sentences correctly.

DISTANCE LEARNING

All of the domino cards can also be used in an alternative way during online classes and courses. The pictures are the perfect tool to learn to describe what we do every day. The sentences with the verb indicated within brackets in the infinitive form can replace the usual instruction of “conjugate the verb… in the present form,” making this activity more dynamic and fun.

ELI Language Games - That's My Job

That’s my job! is a board game based on matching pictures, words and sentences related to jobs.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn and memorise English vocabulary and language structures in a fun way by matching jobs to their corresponding activities.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards divided into two packs: the illustrated cards immediately communicate their meaning, while the cards with the name of the jobs stimulate memorisation and help with matching pictures and words. The sentences on the playing board allow students to develop vocabulary and language structures and to describe the skills of each job. It also includes a dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

By modifying the use of the cards and the playing board, this game can also be used during online classes and courses, for example, by asking students to describe the details of the illustrated cards or what the characters are doing. The cards with the information related to the jobs can also be used as a starting point to create mini-dialogues.

ELI Language Games - Super Bis

Super Bis is an effective and fun card game, based on matching questions and answers.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn and practise English grammar and sentences in a fun and engaging way via questions and answers relating to everyday situations.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards divided into questions (red cards) and answers (blue cards). Each card presents a fun, illustrated situation

and a sentence (question or answer).

DISTANCE LEARNING

The clear and detailed pictures on the cards allow the game to be played using the full potential of each card. For example, students can describe all of the details shown in the picture or they can answer the written question or say which question the answer written on the cards refers to. This version of game play makes it possible to use Super Bis also during online classes and courses.

ELI Language Games - Around the City

Around the City is a lively board game based on the observation of illustrations and the exploration of lexical themes related to the city.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to learn, memorise and develop their knowledge of lexical sets related to urban features, shops, places in town and services, means of transport, road signs and road safety.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards divided into six decks with a variety of activities, plus one deck of penalty cards. It also includes a playing board and a dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

Although the game was designed to be played in the classroom, most of the cards (both the multiple-choice ones and the true or false ones) don’t require a physical presence, so they can be used to create a fun activity based on questions and answers also during online classes or courses.

ELI Language Games - Roundtrip Of Britain And Ireland

WHAT IS IT?

Roundtrip of Britain and Ireland is an original and fun game that allows players to expand their knowledge related to English-speaking culture, just like during a real trip.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game allows students to become familiar with the language and culture of the English-speaking world, to expand their vocabulary

and the correct use of grammar structures: definite and indefinite articles, high-frequency verbs, interrogative and negative forms,

tenses, numbers up to 100. An additional benefit is that this game promotes learning and using commonly-used idiomatic expressions.

CONTENTS

The game includes a playing board with a map of Britain and Ireland with a path to discover cities, monuments, festivals and traditions, 132 cards divided into two packs for level A2 and level B1 with questions about history, culture, geography, grammar, riddles, idiomatic expressions, lexical choices and two dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

All of the cards and the questions can be used without limitations even during online classes and courses. The playing board can also be a starting point for finding out more about the English-speaking world and its most characteristic locations.

ELI Language Games - Verb Bingo

WHAT IS IT?

Verb Bingo is based on the traditional game of bingo and allows students to memorise 66 basic English verbs in a quick, fun and pleasant way.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game can be used to organise fun activities to practise memorisation skills or as an educational tool for language revision and reinforcement. The verbs relate to a variety of lexical topics: daily actions, school, sport and free time.

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 illustrated cards and 36 boards. Each card has a simple and clear picture of an action on one side and the corresponding verb on the reverse side. Each board has six illustrated actions on one side and the six corresponding verbs on the

reverse.

DISTANCE LEARNING

Dividing the game into multi-image boards and cards with a picture on one side and the verb on the other allows for an alternative use of the material, such as assigning the correct name to each picture. In this way the game becomes an excellent tool that can also be used during online classes and courses.

ELI Language Games - Questions And Answers

WHAT IS IT?

Questions and Answers is a useful board game to revise pronouns and adverbs in questions in an alternative way, all in the fun context of a fun fair.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game is designed to stimulate conversation, learning and the use of vocabulary and language structures. It is perfect both as a board game to play at home with friends and as an educational tool to revise and reinforce language in the classroom.

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 illustrated cards with 66 elements from the playing board. The playing board shows a detailed fun fair, full of useful elements to stimulate observation skills and to guess a specific card. The dice with the words who, what, where, how, when, which marks the path of the questions that can be asked upon each throw of the dice.

DISTANCE LEARNING

As with our other board games, Questions and Answers was initially designed to be used in the classroom, but the cards and the playing board make this game an educational tool that is also adaptable during online classes and courses. The playing board is perfect for learning to describe a very detailed picture and the cards can be used to learn new words, but also to create a ‘virtual’ treasure hunt.

ELI Language Games - My Shopping List

WHAT IS IT?

My Shopping List helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of vocabulary and linguistic structures related to shopping.

LANGUAGE AIMS

This fun game allows students to learn and memorise English vocabulary for food and drinks and language structures related to buying and selling.

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 photographic cards and 36 boards with shopping lists and bingo cards on the reverse side.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The traditional structure of Bingo with multi-image boards and photographic cards makes this game an excellent tool for online classes and courses. Students can describe the pictures included on the boards or use all of the ingredients included on their lists in dialogues.

ELI Language Games - Preposition Island

WHAT IS IT?

Preposition Island is a board game which helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of prepositions of place.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game develops understanding and encourages the formation of sentences with prepositions of place.

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 cards including 58 with pictures and sentences and 8 with prepositions of place: above, under, behind, in front of, between, next to, inside, on. It also includes 60 gold coins and an illustrated playing board of ‘Preposition Island’. The pirates’ galleon is anchored on ‘Preposition Island’, and by looking at the pirates, the players have to form sentences that require a particular preposition of

place in order to win the treasure.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The cards and the playing board that is full of interesting details, can become an excellent material to use during online classes and courses, for example by describing all of the details included in the playing board scene.

ELI Language Games - English Championship

WHAT IS IT?

English Championship can be used by the teacher in the classroom or at home to challenge friends in a fun test of general knowledge to figure out who is more familiar with the English language and culture of the English-speaking world via questions about history, culture and traditions, geography, civics, common expressions, nature and free time.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps to familiarise students with the language and culture of the English-speaking world, to expand their range of vocabulary and knowledge via interesting questions. It also helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of language and grammar structures related to specific topics.

CONTENTS

The game includes a playing board with a track marked with the five colours of the Olympic rings: red for Culture (art, music, cinema, literature); green for Geography; black for History (traditions, school, social education and road safety); yellow for Healthy Living (free time, food for a healthy diet and lifestyle, sport); blue for Nature (science, animals, technology, astrology). It also includes 132 cards divided into two different levels of difficulty: red cards for easier questions and blue cards for more difficult questions, a dice and 60 coloured counters.

DISTANCE LEARNING

All of the cards can be easily used, without changing them, to create a fun and engaging quiz game. Therefore, English Championship maintains the goal for which it was designed, even if it is used during online classes and courses.

ELI Language Games - Pack Your Bag

WHAT IS IT?

Pack your Bag is a card game in which the players have to pack their ‘suitcase’ and try to obtain all of the items on their list. The game can also be used for playing bingo.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps with the learning process, revision and correct use of vocabulary and language structures related to clothes, presenting them in the stimulating context of holidays.

CONTENTS

The game includes 66 photographic cards and 36 boards with the lists that can also be used for playing bingo.

DISTANCE LEARNING

The photographic cards and the multi-image boards can easily be used in different variations of the game, such as indicating in which situations you can use the items in your ‘virtual suitcase’. For this reason, the game can also be used during online classes and courses.

ELI Language Games - How Are You?

WHAT IS IT?

How are you? is a board game with an illustrated playing board where players move along the path and have to reach the finish line by

overcoming a series of trials relating to the body, well-being and a healthy lifestyle, such as simple physical exercises.

LANGUAGE AIMS

The game helps students to learn, revise and correctly use vocabulary related to nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

CONTENTS

The game includes 132 cards divided into six categories: yellow cards (draw the illustrated item), green cards (mime a state of health), blue cards (say the illustrated word), orange cards (answer a question), red cards (answer true or false), purple cards (ask what type of doctor cures a particular health problem), a playing board with a track of 100 spaces, a numbered dice in order to advance along the board, a dice with coloured faces (yellow, green, blue, orange, red, purple).

DISTANCE LEARNING

During online lessons and courses, all of the cards can be used with just a few changes to the game. For example, the questions, both the ones with true or false answers and the ones with multiple choices, can be asked during online lessons and the illustrated cards can be a tool to prompt players to describe what the pictures show.

The Workbook pages provide additional practice to reinforce language and grammar presented in classroom lessons. A bound-in Audio CD allows the Workbook to be used at home, or in the classroom. Bold, beautiful and bursting with color! Packed with tools to learn! Backpack, brings to life a love of learning through songs and chants, stickers, and hands-on activities. Your students will want to speak English with Backpack and enjoy doing the fun-filled activities in the classroom! With seven levels, Backpack has a strong focus on grammar and writing and is packed with the latest trends and up to the minute technology, including Active Teach, for use in your classroom. From singing to games, your students will love learning with Backpack! www.pearsonELT.com/backpack