If you want this is a good game to go all out on. Draw up a permanent board, get coloured or shaped markers for the places, crazy and humorous flash cards. What ever you put into creating this game you will get back 10 fold from the students.
If you really don't know how to play connect 4 this is how it goes.
- 2 players/teams take turns at placing different coloured markers in a grid.
- The first team to connect 4 of their markers wins.
- The markers can connect horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
That's it really. Simple. If you want to know the mathematical science/art of the game and learn serious how to beat all you friend/students you can brush up your skills with this article/thesis.
A Knowledge-based Approach of Connect-Four by Victor Allis (yes I am a nerd)
Just like in noughts and crosses you will create 2 language terms. The terms should be first based on the level of your students. Nothing kills the competitive and engaged spirit of students more than the language being out of reach. You want to push their obtainable limit. And naturally it should match what you have been teaching them in class.
A simple idea for this would be to have the horizontal columns as types of transport and the vertical columns as places. The target sentence would be. I go to school by bus. I go to the supermarket by plane.
You can easily add a 3 element to this by using terms on their place markers as well. For example Time could be used here. i.e I go to school by bus in the morning. I go to the supermarket by plane at 9.45.
Again just let your imagination go wild here. And remember the level of your students here. It's easy to make this too complicated for younger students.
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