Hedbanz and Hedbanz for kids (Eng)

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What kind of game:
a communicative game where the players have to guess the objects on their cards
similar to the game “Who am I?”

Use in teaching foreign languages:
to practise open and closed questions and syntax

Level:
The Kids-Version from A2 upwards, the adult version from B1 upwards

Group size:
6 players

More than one group possible ?
no; one would need further headbands

Time:
20-30 min

Contents of the game:
6 headbands, 72 cards each with a picture and a word, 1 egg timer, 24 tokens

What is it about:
The cards are to be placed face down in a pile. Each player takes a headband and adjusts it around their head. Without looking at the picture, the players insert their first card into the slips of their headband. Each player takes three tokens.
The egg timer will be turned over and the first player starts asking questions, clockwise, trying to identify the picture/word on their card. The players have to answer correctly.
If the player guesses what is on the card before the egg timer runs out, he/she can take a new card, returns a token and continues asking. Otherwise, the player has to wait until the next round. The first player to get rid of all their tokens is the winner.

Variations and our experience with the game:
Appropriate cards only containing these words that are known aleady can be pre-selected. If however all cards are left in the pile, players should be made aware that there are new words they do not know yet. These can then be learned whilst playing the game.
Although on the cards the words are only written in English, there is usually enough space to write the word in different language underneath it. This would allow playing the game with different target languages.
The number of tokens handed out and thereby the length of the game can be varied.

Our valuation:
+ easily portable
+ a funny game, that takes some time but is a good drill for syntax and the structure of open and closed questions

Author/publisher:
published 1999 by Paul Lamond Games

Further comments:
Many thanks to the publisher for kindly providing a free sample of this game.

Price category: 2


watch also our german description

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Angélique Bruns, 25.November 2007

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