On this page, you can find the Snakes and Ladders board sheet for the Dragon Boat Festival. Snakes and Ladders is a fun and engaging board game, my students absolutely love it. We always play this game as a stirrer or for vocab review. It can also be played for Dragon Boat Festival themed Chinese class.
How to play the dice game
Props: Snakes and Ladders game sheet, dice
Instructions/Notes: Each square has a Dragon Boat Festival themed word. Each player places their token at square 1 (the start). Players take turns rolling the dice. Move their token forward the number of spaces shown on the dice. If student lands on the bottom of a ladder 🪜: Climb up to the square at the top of the ladder. If student lands on the head of a snake 🐍: Slide down to the square at the snake’s tail.
Student who reaches the goal square first wins.
Language Target: Vocabulary
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Here are eight words on the Snakes and Ladders game sheet which are top eight symbols of the Dragon Boat Festival along with their meanings:
1. Dragon Boat Festival: 端午节 duān wǔ jié
2. sticky rice dumpling: 粽子 zòng zi
3. sticky rice: 糯米 nuò mǐ
4. sachet: 香包 xiāng bāo
5. drum: 鼓 gǔ
6. colorful rope: 五彩绳 wǔ cǎi shéng
7. dragon boat: 龙舟 lóng zhōu
8. dragon: 龙 lóng
For the Snakes and Ladders game sheet, print it on A4, A3 or other sizes of paper you like. Make sure to set the printing scale to fit the printing area. suggest laminating it for durable use.
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I usually use board game template for vocabulary and grammar review. My students love it! For vocabulary review, what I usually do is copying pictures that I need from the textbook or other learning materials with a copy machine. You may need to enlarge the pictures according to the size of your grids on the Snakes and Ladders board sheet. Cut out each picture, and then paste each picture on grids on the board game template, then it’s ready to play.
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