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You shall not pass, Billy Goats Gruff gameauthor: Nigel
level: Elementary
target_English: Do you have + Classroom Objects
big_small: Small Groups
Place lots of items that the children will normally have with them for
school on a desk (like pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers, English / maths
/ etc books, bags, pencil cases, etc). Each student who is not a troll
(guess we shall call these goats), picks up 5 objects only.
Put 5 chairs in a row with plenty of space between them. Next to each chair
put 1 student (they will be like the troll in the 3 Billy Goats Gruff story
guarding the bridge)
All the other
students (the goats) line up at the first chair.
The first student goes to the first chair, where upon the troll will ask,
"Do you have a ???" (for slightly more advanced students add
adjectives like blue pen, long ruler, snoopy bag etc)
The student will answer either "yes i do" or "no i don't"
If they have the item they must show it to the troll (to prove
they have the item and stop cheaters) and can then step over the chair and then
pass to the next troll's chair where the same question will be asked.
If the student does not have the object, then the troll can say "you
shall not pass" just like in Lord of the Rings, then they must go
back and pick up the object from the table and rejoin the queue to cross
the bridge.
First
person to pass all 5 troll's bridges wins.
For an easy game the trolls
must decide what they are going to ask for and ask the same question every
time.
For a slightly more difficult game the trolls can change what they
ask for, in which case the goats should try not to let the troll see what they
are carrying.
And for even more difficulty, if the goats do not have the
item a troll asks for and goes to the table to get it, they must replace it with
one item that they are already carrying so that they will always have only 5
objects.
Nigel
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