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Invite me out
In this teaching activity, students play a game of dominoes matching places and time
expressions with the correct preposition. The students also practice making invitations using
time and place prepositions.

Make one copy of the worksheet for every group of four students and cut the cards up as
indicated.

Before you begin, you may wish to pre-teach or review the prepositions of time and place -
in, on and at.

Procedure

Explain to the class that they are going to play a game of dominoes matching a place or time
expression with the correct preposition, and that the object of the game is to get rid of all
their dominoes.

Separate the class into groups of four and give each group a set of dominoes with the invite
cards mixed in.

Ask them to deal out five dominoes each and to leave the rest in a pile, face down.

The first player puts down one of their preposition dominoes face up.

The player on their left must then put down one of their dominoes, making sure that the
preposition matches the time or place on the first Players domino.

The players take it in turns to add dominoes in this way.

If a player cannot put down one of their dominoes, they have two options. They can play an
invite card by holding up their card and inviting another player to go out, stating the time and
place.

For example:

Would you like to go to the cinema on Friday evening?

When they have done this, they return the card to the bottom of the pile.

The other option is for them to take a domino from the top of the pile and put it down if they
can.

Note invite cards can only be played when a student cannot put down a time or place
domino.

The winner is the first player to get rid of all their dominoes.

When the groups have finished a game, they can shuffle and play another round.




Written by Albert Thompson for Teach-This.com 2013