Advice & Ability Adventure
Young learners navigate everyday dilemmas by asking for advice, expressing what they can and cannot do, making polite requests, and discussing what they must or should do. Players land on spaces and respond to real-world speaking prompts anchored to school, home, and friendship situations.
A free Board Game for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: modals.
Speaking prompts on the board
- Ask your partner what they can do really well. Listen and ask why they are good at it.
- Your team must agree: what should you do if a friend is sad? Discuss your ideas.
- Act out asking your teacher politely if you can go to the toilet. Use good manners!
- Describe something you cannot do yet but want to learn. Why do you want to learn it?
- Ask your partner: what must you do every morning before school? What do you have to do?
- Stand up and mime making a polite request at a shop. Your team guesses what you want.
- Your team has 30 seconds to agree: should children have homework? Explain your answer.
- Explain what you could do last year that you cannot do now. What changed?
- Ask your partner: if you had a problem at school, who would you ask for help? Why?
- Describe a time you asked permission for something. What did you ask? What did they say?
- Act out refusing a friend politely when they ask you to do something. Use kind words!
- Compare what you can do and what your best friend can do. Who is better at sports?
- Explain one thing you must do at home that you do not like. Why do you have to do it?
- Ask your partner: what should you do if you break something at home? What would happen?
- Your team must agree: what could make your classroom better? Share two ideas.
- You have 45 seconds to present: describe a skill you have and how you learned it.
- Stand up and show with your hands: what can you do with your arms? Make big movements!
- Explain what you might do this weekend if the weather is nice. What are your plans?
- Ask your partner: what should friends do to be kind? Give two examples from your life.
- Describe a time someone helped you. What could you not do? How did they help you?
- Act out making a polite request to a family member at dinner. What do you ask for?
- Your team has 30 seconds to agree: what must you do to be a good friend?
- Explain one thing you could not do when you were five. What can you do now?
- Ask your partner: if you could learn any skill, what would it be? Why do you want it?