Let's Talk About Music – ESL Board Game

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Let’s Talk About Music Board Game gives learners 26 music-themed conversation, vocabulary and action prompts. Students discuss preferences and experiences, name instruments or genres, and hum a tune for others to guess.

Choose the color or black-and-white board and supply dice and tokens. Model a response before paired or small-group play, adapting response length and offering alternatives to performance prompts as needed.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Answer personal-experience and opinion questions about music in spoken English.
Sustain turn-based conversation in pairs or small groups using varied question forms.
Ask follow-up questions as classmates respond to open prompts like how music brings people closer together.

Teaching tips

Model one square first - answer 'What kind of music do you like best?' yourself - so students see the expected answer length before play begins.
Set a minimum-sentence rule per square for stronger groups to stretch answers past yes/no on prompts like 'Do you like classical music?'
Choose the color or black-and-white board and print a copy for each group. Provide dice and tokens.

Skills covered

ESL speaking fluency - squares combine conversation questions, vocabulary lists and action prompts about music, from favourite bands to concerts.
Topic vocabulary retrieval - list squares demand ten instruments and five music genres on the spot.
Expressing opinions and preferences - prompts contrast happy versus quiet music, classical music, and life without music.

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What kinds of prompts fill the board's squares?

A deliberate mix: preference questions (favourite band, best music), experience questions (concerts, performing outside school), opinion prompts (could you live without music?), quick-fire lists (ten instruments, five genres), and action dares like humming a song for others to guess.

Which learners will get the most from the topic?

Students old enough to have music lives of their own - the squares ask about following artists on social media, attending concerts and opera, and music classes, so the game plays best from upper elementary through teen and adult ESL groups.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

SL.6.1

Core concepts

ESL conversation
Speaking fluency
Music vocabulary
Board game

Topics

Music discussion ESL speaking Board game Conversation prompts

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ELA Activities ESL Activities Literacy Activities Literacy Activities ELA Games ESL Games

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