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Zombie Virus Game

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For the PowerPoint version of the game, download using the button above. Click this link to access the Google Slides version.

NOTE: This game is for personal and educational purposes only. You are not allowed to sell this template or use it to make money. Thank you for respecting the work that went into creating these resources!

Game Features

Includes example of how I structured the question and answers (hidden slide at the end of the PowerPoint)
Play as a reading or a speaking game

How to Play

For this game, there are humans, zombies, and doctors.
The teacher will choose select students to start off as zombies or doctors (how many depends on the size of your class).
When the game starts, students go around and play each other in rock, paper, scissors.
The loser asks the question and the winner answers OR if your target language consists only of a statement, just have the winner say the statement.
Depending on what the student is (human, zombie, or doctor), they respond with different answers if they win rock, paper, scissors.
Make sure students whisper their answers in the other student’s ear so they don’t reveal what they are.
Zombies turn humans into zombies and doctors turn zombies back into humans, but only if they are the winner of rock, paper, scissors. If a human wins, nothing happens.
At the end of the game, if more than half the class are humans, humans win! However, if more than half are zombies, zombies win!

Variations

The instructions above are for the reading version of this game. However, you can also use it as a speaking activity. One way to do this is give each student a card with an image on it relating to the word/sentence they should say as a human, zombie, or doctor.

Fonts Needed: N/A

You will get a PPTX (2MB) file

Teacher Feedback

(comments and runtimes from the previous version of my site)

Students: 22 | Time: 25min | Skill Focus: Speaking | Finished Game? 🟢
I had 5 middle school 1st grade classes ranging from 18 students to 22. They LOVED this game! It took 4-5 minutes to introduce the game, then I had each round last 3-4 minutes. Each class got through 3 rounds, and a couple classes 4 rounds. Each round I chose 2 zombies and 2 doctors, but consider doing 2 zombies and 3 doctors. I said the doctors could not become zombies. - Anon
Students: 26 | Time: 20min | Skill Focus: Reading | Finished Game? 🟢
I had 2 classes with 26 students each. We played 2 rounds each. They both loved the game, though it did take a round of playing to really understand how to play. Otherwise the game went smoothly and it was really balanced on which team would win. - Anon
Students: 28 | Time: 15min | Skill Focus: Speaking | Finished Game? 🟢
I've played this multiple times in class and my students loved it! Great for review classes. I used full sentences and each one was about 3-5 minutes. I usually asked students if there should be more or less doctors/zombies depending on how the round goes. - Anon
Students: 35 | Time: 30min | Skill Focus: Speaking | Finished Game? 🟢
I did 5 rounds. I let each round go for about 3-4 minutes each. Students loved it. Explaining the different answers for humans versus zombies versus doctors did take time, but that also reflects the difficult answers I made them say. I wanted to adapt this for a self-introduction practice. For a question regarding favorite food, I had zombies say they like humans. The students could not stop laughing at that. It was fun. It did get a little rowdy, but I didn't mind. - Anon
Love this game idea so much! - Evelyn