Zombie Virus Game

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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.

Runtime

No runtime information has been submitted yet for this number of students. If you have used it with your students and would like to share how long it took to play, please fill out the form on the last tab. It would be very much appreciated and would be a big help to other teachers like you!

STUDENTS: 22 TIME: 25min SKILL FOCUS: Speaking FINISHED GAME?: Yes

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.

STUDENTS: 26 TIME: 20min SKILL FOCUS: Reading FINISHED GAME?: Yes

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.

STUDENTS: 35 TIME: 30min SKILL FOCUS: Speaking FINISHED GAME?: Yes

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.

The runtimes in this chart are based on experiences from me and other teachers. If you had a different experience playing this game and would like to submit your own runtime feedback, please use the form below.