Often I find domino games on this site that have only one way of connecting to other domino �bricks �. (i.e. there is only one picture of a jacket and only once the word jacket appears). How do you play a game like that?

I know the version in which there are several combinations possible so students can connect to different places.

In case there is only one possibility it basically just turns into a long snake (loop) when all the �bricks � are finished. I have downloaded a few but always end up cutting them into pieces to use as a memory game.

Can someone explain to me how they use it in their class rooms?

It depends on what you are goind to practice. If vocabulary, kids have to read/name the object that is on the initial tile and read/name the one they attach to it: a jacket and a T-shirt, a T-shirt and a dress... They can add colour words if you use coloured dominoes. You can ask them to say sentences to make it more difficult: "This is a T-shirt and these are trousers..." or "I was wearing a dress yesterday, but I am wearing trousers now".  Domino in English lessons is not only a game, it is usually meant to practice some structures/phrases you learn. Yes, it is always turns into a long or short snake . It can also be given to check word rcognition when you have some spare minutes left.

 

I will write some more ideas later.

 

 

if you �re just playing dominos to have fun...that �s an entire different reason...otherwise, I just don �t see it....it �s like tic-tac-toe, memory games..or seven-up......great games, but do they teach anything  ---you �re not learning any vocabulary

 

the only way I see a use...is if you helping a kid count in English.... (but how would that work in a class of 30)

 

anyway - for those that use them - that �s great - but I just think you should step back, and assess if these kids are in fact, learning something

 

cause there are other games like bingo, guess who, scrabble

 

cheers