Wortschatz für die Spielshows - Teacher's Discovery

Wade Petersen

Wade Petersen 

Presents: 

Wicked 

Cool 

G A M E S H O W S & 

Board Games 

©2010 

B3044DL 

ISBN 978-0-7560-1303-5 

20 Classic Game Shows 

and Board Games Ready 

for the German Classroom! 

Deutsche Ausabe

About the Author 

Wade Petersen has taught French I, II, III, IV, freshman English, 

A.P. Composition, A.P. Literature, American Literature, World 

Literature and Creative Writing. 

After growing up in Hartley, Iowa, Petersen earned his Bachelor 

of Arts in French and English from Northwestern College in 

Orange City, Iowa. During his undergraduate years, he studied 

at the Alliance Française in Paris through the Alma College 

Study Abroad Program. He earned his master’s degree in 

Effective Teaching, Learning and Leadership from Drake 

University. 

Petersen has served as president of the Iowa chapter of the 

American Association of Teachers of French. Petersen’s 

presentations continue to earn rave reviews, which include 

being named “Best of Iowa” three times. He has presented 

workshops in Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, 

Michigan and Nebraska, and he has served as a keynote 

speaker at state conferences. Wade Petersen was named 

Iowa’s 2004 High School Foreign Language Teacher of the Year. 

Wade Petersen has published over 30 products with Teacher’s 

Discovery. His best-selling materials for world language 

teachers are creative, useful and practical for any classroom .

Other Products by This Author: 

30 Projects on Communicating in French 

30 Projects on Communicating in Spanish 

30 Projects on Communicating in German 

50 French Oral Communication Activities with Mini-Rubrics 

50 Spanish Oral Communication Activities with Mini-Rubrics 

50 German Oral Communication Activities with Mini-Rubrics 

Rubrics Cubed: French Edition 

Rubrics Cubed: Spanish Edition 

Rubrics Cubed: German Edition 

Jouons! Creative Games, Contests & Competitions for the French Classroom 

¡Juguemos! Creative Games, Contests & Competitions for the Spanish Classroom 

Spielen Wir! Creative Games, Contests & Competitions for the German Classroom 

Éclat! (a French version of the game Outburst) 

¡Estallido! (a Spanish version of the game Outburst) 

Knall! (a German version of the game Outburst) 

Le Métro de Paris: A Complete Teaching Resource 

Teaching the History of France: A Complete Teaching Resource Packet 

Teaching the History of Spain: A Complete Teaching Resource Packet 

French Historical Bulletin Board Posters 

French Literary Bulletin Board Posters 

German Historical Bulletin Board Posters 

Spanish Historical Bulletin Board Posters 

My Big Fat Book of French Flashcards 

My Big Fat Book of Spanish Flashcards 

My Big Fat Book of German Flashcards 

Why So Tense? French Edition 

Why So Tense? Spanish Edition 

Wicked Cool French! 

Wicked Cool Spanish! 

Wicked Cool German! 

These 

products are 

available through the 

Teacher’s Discovery 

catalog 

and 

Web site.

auf einen blick: 

Game Shows: 

1. Concentration 

2. Jeopardy! 

3. Wheel of Fortune 

4. Password 

5. Family Feud 

6. Match Game 

7. The Weakest Link 

8. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 

9. Deal or No Deal 

10. Pyramid 

Board Games: 

11. Battleship 

12. Operation 

13. Guess Where? 

14. Connect Four 

15. Outburst 

16. Scattergories 

17. Chutes and Ladders 

18. Trivial Pursuit 

19. Sorry! 

20. Monopoly

Inhaltsverzeichnis: 

Introduction to Teachers....................................1 

Vocabulary for Game Shows..............................2 

Vocabulary for Board Games.............................3 

Game Show #1: Concentration............................4 

* Teacher Background Information............5 

* Blank Game Grid....................................6 

* Sample Game Grids................................7-10 

Game Show #2: Jeopardy!..................................11 

* Teacher Background Information............12-13 

* Game Board Grid....................................14 

Game Show #3: Wheel of Fortune........................15 


* Wheel Template....................................17 

Game Show #4: Password...................................18 


* Password Clue Cards.............................20 

Game Show #5: Family Feud................................21 


* Opinion Survey Cards..............................24 


Game Show #6: Match Game...............................26 


* Question Grid.........................................29


Game Show #7: The Weakest Link........................30 

* Teacher Background Information.............31-32 

* Question Grid..........................................33 


* Game Statistics Grid................................35 

Game Show #8: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?....36 


* Choice Cards..........................................39 


* Question Choice Grids..............................41-42 

Game Show #9: Deal or No Deal...........................43 


* Suitcase Grid...........................................46-52 

* Teacher Vocabulary Grid.........................53 

* Photo Pages...........................................54-55 

Game Show #10: Pyramid...................................56 

* Teacher Background Information...........57-58 

* Teacher Planning Grid............................59 

* Student Clue Cards................................60 

* Front Game Overhead............................61 

* Winner’s Circle Game Overhead..............62 

Board Game #11: Battleship...............................63 


* Game Board Version A...........................66 

* Game Board Version B...........................67 

* Game Board Version C (Sample).............68 

* Game Board Version C...........................69


Board Game #12: Operation................................70 


* Question Grids.......................................73-74 

* Specialty Cards.....................................75 

* Body Parts Cards................................... 76-78 

* Difficulty Cards...................................... 79 

* Euro/Money Cards................................. 80 

Board Game #13: Guess Where?..........................81 


* Rooms Game Chart................................84 

* Family Member Icons.............................85 

* Photo Page...........................................86 

Board Game #14: Connect Four...........................87 


* Game Board Grid...................................89 

* Vocabulary List Grid...............................90 

Board Game #15: Outburst..................................91 


* Game Cards..........................................95 

Board Game #16: Scattergories..........................96 


* Topic Grid..............................................99 

* Student Playing Grid..............................100 

* Common/Suggested Letters..................101 

Board Game #17: Chutes and Ladders.................102 


* Gaee Board..........................................104 

* German I Sample Questions....................105 

* German II Sample Questions...................106


Board Game #18 Trivial Pursuit............................107 


* Team Game Pie......................................109 

* Pie Pieces..............................................110 

* Categories Overhead............................111 

* Drawing Cards......................................112-113 

* Teacher Question Sheets........................114-115 

Board Game #19: Sorry!......................................116 


* Game Board..........................................119 

* Student Instructions (English)..................120 

* Student Instructions (German).................121 

* Sample Questions..................................122 

* Photo Page...........................................123 

Board Game #20: Monopoly...............................124 


* Student Game Board.............................127 

* Student Rules Sheet..............................128 

* Photo Pages..........................................129-130 

* Property Set Game Pieces......................131 

* Chance Cards........................................132 

* Community Chest Cards.........................133 

* Money Cards.........................................134-137 

* Team Answer Slips.................................138 

* Lifeline Slips.........................................139 

* Game Token Signs..................................140-141 

* Team Moves Log...................................142 

* Sample Deutschopoly Questions............143-144 

Bonus: Creating Your Own German Board Game! 

A Student Group Project with Evaluation Rubric 

* Student Handout/Rubric........................145-150

Game Show 

Come on down! The survey says ... ! Pass! That’s my final answer! 

We have all grown up playing fun, challenging board games as well as watching entertaining 

game shows on television. The competitive spirit that makes us want to give the right price, make it to 

the bonus round, send our opponents backward and win the big prize can now come alive in your 

German classroom! Let’s see what you’ve just won! 

Your students have been working hard in your German classes. A great way to reinforce their 

study of vocabulary, grammar and culture is to put these materials into game formats. Students love to 

take a break from the routine by playing games. Using formats of popular game shows and board 

games they grew up with will excite them even more! German teachers are some of the most creative 

teachers in the world; we are continually searching for effective ways to help students learn new 

materials. To reinforce this learning, we spend countless hours planning and preparing review games. 

Let me take some of the work out of creating those games! Let’s see what’s behind the curtain! 

This book is a compilation of the most popular game shows and board games of all time. 

With each game, I provide a complete set of instructions to help teachers and students prepare. 

These instructions are fairly detailed, and some may feel like I’ve written a lot. I would rather 

have teachers understand all aspects of the game than to be left wondering how to play each 

one. We’ve all been to a great conference and experienced some new activity that we want to 

bring back to our classroom; it sounds great at the time, but when we later try to prepare it, 

we forget how all the details work, and the handout is not that thorough. Zonk! 

Some games in this book are relatively easy to prepare and play while others will require 

more of your time. Many of the games require teachers to provide their own set of review questions. 

This may work well at the end of a unit, chapter or even in preparing for semester or final exams. I do 

provide some examples in the book, but it’s important that each teacher tailor a set of review questions 

to his or her specific content; a set of generic review questions from me would simply not work for all 

German classes. Game over! 

Teachers must decide how and when to use each competition. Some games are only suitable 

for your lower-level classes (German I or II), but most can be adapted through advanced content to 

work with your upper-level German classes as well. Let your students help prepare the games! A great 

review for your German III and IV students will be to work on games for your lower-level classes. 

(They may get as much out of the review as other students get from playing the game!) Remember, the 

time and energy you invest into getting ready for each game will be lessened every time you play it in 

your classes. Make these games your own! Every teacher will want to adapt to meet his or her own 

needs. Feel free to change, alter or manipulate any aspect of these games; a book is only as good as it is 

useful. As you look through this book, some of these game shows and board games have been easily 

adapted to the classroom and can be played much like what you and your students are used to; others 

have been creatively adapted to work for an entire class. No whammies! 

So ... get ready, get set ... it’s time to roll the dice, spin the wheel, make a guess, devise a 

strategy, answer a question and have the time of your lives in German class! If you play your cards right, 

your students will be rushing to your class to playgames and learn more German! 

Spielen wir! 

1

• game show = die Spielshow 

• game show host = der 

Spielshowmaster 

• audience = das Publikum / 

die Zuschauer 

• curtain = die Gardine/der Vorhang 

• microphone = das Mikrofon 

• celebrity = die Berühmtheit/ 

der Prominente 

• player = der/die Spieler(in) 

• contestant = der/die Kandidat(in) 

• champion = der/die Meister(in) 

• judge = der/die Punktrichter(in) 

• opponent = der/die Gegner(in) 

• team = die Mannschaft 

• partner = der/die Partner(in) 

• timekeeper = der/die 

Zeitnehmer(in) 

• timer = der Timer/die Stoppuhr 

Wortschatz 

für die 

Spielshows 

• buzzer = der Klingelknopf 

• gesture= die Geste 

• clue = der Anhaltspunkt 

• round = die Spielrunde 

• score = die Punktzahl 

• point = der Punkt 

• goal = das Ziel 

• rules = die Spielregeln 

• prize = der Preis 

• jackpot = der Jackpot 

• tournament = das Turnier 

• to play = spielen 

• to win = gewinnen 

• to lose = verlieren 

• to qualify = sich qualifizieren 

• to guess = erraten 

• eliminated = ausgeschieden 

2

Wortschatz 

für die 

Brettspiele 

• board game = das Brettspiel 

• rules = die Spielregeln 

• instructions = der Spielablauf 

• object of game = das Ziel des Spiels 

• game prep = die Vorbereitung 

• materials = die Materialien 

• course of the game = 

der Spielverlauf 

• token/chip = die Spielmarke/ 

die Spielfigur 

• cards = die Karten 

• dice = der Würfel 

• to roll the dice = würfeln 

• point = der Punkt 

• bonus point = der Bonuspunkt 

• space/square = das Feld 

• c lue = der Anhaltspunkt 

• move = der Zug 

• player = der/die Spieler(in) 

• to play = spielen 

• to win = gewinnen 

• to lose = verlieren 

• to jump = springen 

• to pick/select = auswählen 

• to replace = ersetzen 

• luck = das Glück 

• strategy = die Strategie 

• score = die Punktzahl 

• Whose turn is it? = 

Wer ist jetzt dran? 

• category = die Kategorie 

• bonus question = 

die Bonusfrage 

• question box = 

der Kasten mit Fragen 

• correct answer = 

die richtige Antwort 

• wrong answer = 

die falsche Antwort 

• scoreboard = 

die Anzeigetafel 

• hidden = versteckt 

• team = die Mannschaft 

• opposing team = die 

gegnerische Mannschaft 

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Die Spielshow: 

Konzentration 

4

Konzentration 

Teacher Background Information 

German Title: Konzentration 

English Title: “Concentration” (board game ©Milton Bradley/TV show ©NBC) 

Target Level: German I, II, III or IV 

Target Grammar/Vocabulary: various vocabulary topics 

Activity Duration: five to 10 minutes per round 

Object of the Game: Based on the children’s game “Memory,” students will 

attempt to find matches with hidden vocabulary by uncovering two squares in a grid. 

Teacher Preparation: This activity is extremely simple to prepare. You will find a blank grid on the following 

pages along with several examples of actual games that I’ve used in class. Photocopy the grid and place eight 

vocabulary items in German within random squares. In the other eight squares, either place the eight English 

equivalents of the German vocabulary or use pictures to represent the vocabulary. Once you have done this, 

photocopy this master game grid onto an overhead transparency. Then cover the 16 squares on your transparency 

with mini sticky notes (the enclosed grid is spaced so that the smallest 

sticky notes will fit). When you place this on your overhead projector, you will be 

able to see beneath each of the sticky notes, but students will not see anything. 

Student Preparation: Students must only be familiar with the rules to 

play. They will need to have studied the vocabulary used, and they 

must be able to call off squares using basic German numbers and letters. 

Playing the Game: Begin with any student. The student will call out the 

coordinates of any two squares on the grid (auf Deutsch, bitte!). The 

teacher will then uncover those two squares by removing both of the sticky notes from the transparency (the 

students will then be able to see what is underneath). If the student has made a match, the teacher will 

exclaim „Stimmt!” or „Gut gemacht!” That German student then receives a small piece of candy or a sticker 

(whatever you want) as a prize. Those two squares are left uncovered and play continues with the next 

student. If a student does not make a match with the two squares, the teacher will reply „Stimmt nicht!” or 

„Schade!” and the teacher will cover those two squares again with the sticky notes. Play continues with the 

next student. Students must try to remember what lies beneath squares in hope of making a future match. 

Winning the Game: Play continues until all eight matches have been discovered and the board is cleared. Play 

as many rounds as you want, based on available time and desired review. 

Teacher Hints/Suggestions: 

* Once you have done this activity, students easily understand how it works. You can have a student in charge 

of running the game for the class while you work with other students on remediation; this also gives you 

some time to do oral testing during a unit. 

* I usually like to play at least two rounds, depending on class size. Start 

with a different student so more students have a chance to win prizes. 

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