UNIT 6 - GO SHOPPING
Each unit has activities with 3 levels of difficulty, for example:
• In easy level you are going torecognise your goal on each boardand to move the robot on the board (Reading ability is not required. I could only present images of some objects.)
• In medium level you can use the board provided or create your own. On this level it is possible to use QR codes to get more information about the topics and involve reading ability. The players can create their own shopping plan (what?,where from ?,how much?).
• In advanced level you have to cooperate with other people. It’s a level for 2 or more players.
Medium Level
Hello I'm a robot, I'm ready to go shopping with you.
Place the ROBOT on START.
Take a card. Identify the image according to the number on the card.
Take a card.
Where would you like to go shopping? Identify the image according to the number on the card.
Move the ROBOT from START to the place where you can buy the chosen product. On your way you can collect lucky stars. Take the ROBOT to FINISH and place it on the number representing the total number of stars collected. Look at the images and choose your favourite shopping places.
Medium Level
In order to go shopping, place the ROBOT on START. You move the number of squares shown by the dice.
Do not cross the red line.
You can buy what you find on your way. In the end, place on the square of each shop as many coins as specific products you bought there. Answer the questions:
1. What shops did you buy most products from?
2. What shops did you buy nothing from?
3. What else would you have liked to buy? Additional questions:
What fruit/vegetables do you like?
What would you choose for a healthy menu?
Where could you find these items?
How much would you buy?
What are your favourite clothing items?
Follow the instructions below if you reach the green squares:BANK – you rest. Stay one lap.PARK – you breathe fresh air. You can move faster to the next square.BANK– you have got plenty of money. Go to the first product you come to and take it.
POLICE OFFICER – helps you to move three squares forward or backward.
ZEBRA CROSSING – you wait and stay one lap.
AMBULANCE – you stay one lap. You wait for the ambulance to pass.
SPINACH – you have energy. You buy spinach and you also move to the first unbought product.
ROLLER SKATES – you do sport. You move straight to the first unbought product.
THE OLD WOMAN – you help her cross the street. You deserve the right to move on the board wherever you want but no more than 3 squares.
Additional activities:
Take the robot to the market. Through the QR code you will have more information about it.
Take the robot to the mall. Through the QR code you will have more information about it.
Advanced Level
For this game you need playing cards (only cards with numbers 1,2 and 3) and one dice. • You roll the dice and choose where you go shopping and what kind of products you intend to buy (summer/winter clothes, vegetables/fruit from the greengrocer’s, sweets/food from the grocer’s).
• You choose a card. The number on the card shows you how many squares you can move.
If it is heart, move forward as many squares as the number on card indicates. If it is spades, move backward as many squares as the number on card indicates. If it is clubs, move right as many squares as the number on card indicates. If it is black heart, move left as many squares as the number on card indicates.
If the number is greater than the existing squares, you move to the available squares and stay one lap.
If you reach the green squares, read the information in QR (plant a tree, walk in fresh air, feed animals, throw the paper to the garbage bin, recycle selectively, turn the light off, water the flowers), you win a life and you have the right, when you are in danger, to leave the game, remain on the edge of the board and from there to go on by taking another card.
You reach the TAXI, move freely to a product you want to buy.
You reach the BUS, move one square in any direction
You reach the NEWSPAPER STAND, you can move one square forward or backward.
You reach the PARK, you can move freely one square to the left or to the right.
If you reach the FISH MARKET, you can take 2 cards once.
You win if you can buy the 3 products specific to the chosen shop.
Challenges:
1. How much money do you think you need to buy your favourite items?
On your way to different shopping places you can face some difficulties: the shops are closed, you have little money, they do not have your favourite item. What would you do?