Let's Talk About Health – Class Board Game

Answer open questions about health, illness and hygiene aloud in English

Use health and medical vocabulary in context — allergic, lifestyle, remedies, paramedic, fever, contagious, injections

Recount personal experience in response to prompts such as "Have you ever broken a bone?" and "Have you ever been sick while on holiday?"

Give practical health advice, including why hands should be washed regularly and what to eat with an upset stomach

Describe a physical state in detail, as in "Describe what it's like to have a fever."

The spaces split into questions about personal experience and questions that ask for an explanation, so a group that needs an easier start can be steered to the experience spaces first.

Several spaces carry a whole discussion rather than a one-line answer — "Can diseases also have positive sides?" and "Why are there sometimes clowns in a hospital?" both work as a full-class talking point.

Pre-teach the board's harder vocabulary: contagious, paramedic, remedies, injections and allergic all appear inside question text and gate the answer.

Because the same board is laid out twice, two groups can play side by side from one printing.

Questions about hospital stays, broken bones and illness in the family touch on personal history; offer students the option to answer about someone else or to pass.

Spoken response to open questions — students answer prompts such as "What do you do when someone in your family is sick?" in their own words.

Health and medical vocabulary in use — the board embeds allergic, lifestyle, mosquito bite, remedies, paramedic, fever, contagious, toothache and injections inside the questions themselves.

Giving health advice — spaces ask what helps against a sore throat, what to eat with an upset stomach, and why hands should be washed regularly.

Recounting personal experience — several spaces ask whether the student has broken a bone, been in hospital, or been sick while on holiday.

Speculative reasoning — playful spaces such as "What do superheroes do when they're sick?" push students past factual recall into invented explanation.