Materials: 3 dice – Preferably the big, plush kind.

Rule: Numbers 1 and 3 are ‘death numbers’.

I use this game for teaching sentence patterns and grammar points.

How to play: Divide the class into two teams.Write the sentence pattern or grammar rule that you are teaching on the board.

Have the two teams take turns making sentences.  Each correct sentence gains one chance to roll the three dice.

Add all the numbers of the dice together to decide the points for the team.

For a longer version of this game, you can roll the dice until all three are dead.

For example: A student rolls 1 + 4 + 6 = 10 points  (remember the number 1 is dead, so it doesn’t count)

You can ask the students to continue rolling the two dice until all the dice are ‘dead’.

The team that gets the most points wins.

Note:  This game can be used to determine points for any kind of lesson.