INSTRUCTIONS FOR HEXAGONS GAME

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Description

I got the idea for this game from a British television programme. It can be played at
any level with any amount of students. Good for Friday afternoons.

How to play

If you look at the playing board image. you will see a block of hexagons with a letter in
each hexagon. The game is played between two teams.The object of the game is for
each team to make an unbroken line from either the top to the bottom or from on side
to the other without being blocked by the other team. The first letter to all the answers
starts with the letter in each hexagon. Eg. The yellow team choose to go from top to
bottom. They choose the letter "m" . The teacher says " we drink it and it comes from
cows" The red team are the first to say milk so the teacher colours the "M" hexagon in
red. The reds choose the next letter and so on. If you can't understand these
intructions just ask anybody who is British to explain it it you as they are bound to
have seen the TV programme

Variations

1. The teacher says the answer and the students must think of possible questions.
2. The students themselves think of the questions.
3. The students must think of a sentence that contains two words that begin with
the letter.
4. Make photocopies and get the students to play in small groups.
5. Give each team a time limit to get from top to bottom (45 seconds) You must
accept their first answer. If they get a wrong answer block them with another
colour. For a competetive version the team who gets across in the shortest time
wins.

Suggestions

1. Print the image out and get it photocopied onto a transparency so you can use
it with an OHP. Cut out some transparent hexagons and lay them on as the
squares are won.
2. Forget the high-tech and just chalk a grid onto the blackboard.
 HEXAGONS QUESTIONS (Beginners level)
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A B
Means the same as "over" A very young child
Means the same as "scared" The opposite of good
The capital of this country is Canberra Someone with no hair
The first man A room in the house where you wash
What comes after morning Opposite of after
The eighth month of the year Transport with 2 wheels and no engine
The fourth month An animal which flies
A part of the body The opposite of interesting
Past participle of "eat" The past participle of break
Mountains in France near Mont Blanc A shop where you buy meat
The past participle of buy
C D
The opposite of light
Transport with 4 wheels and an engine
You start a letter with this word
Where you leave your car
Copenhagen is the capital of this
Domestic animal - a white one is lucky
Past participle of do things
Furniture in the kitchen where you put things
The opposite of shallow
Opposite of expensive
You do this in bed
Food made from milk - Roquefort, Brie
This is where you look up words
Festival in December - Jesus was born
The opposite of life
It tells you the time
The twelfth month of the year
Asia, Europe, Africa are them
Past participle of drive
Past participle of cost
You go to him when you are ill
Your mother's brother's daughter
Room in the house where you eat
The opposite of dirty
The people of Holland
E F
You have 2 on the sides of your head
Fifth day of the week
Opposite of late
Isabel's husband (Spanish history)
What chickens produce
Oranges, pears, apples etc.
Opposite of full
They swim in the sea and rivers
London is the capital of this country
Method of cooking
You put a letter in this before you
Animal similar to a dog
Opposite of beginning
Musical instrument
The language you are studying now
Part of the body - we have 10
A big grey animal from Africa or India
Opposite of slow
Opposite of west
Where Peugeot are made
You eat it

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G H
Wine is made from them What you wear on your head
Animal with a long neck You have two, each with 5 fingers
Your father's father Opposite of sad
A colour made from blue and yellow You are this when you haven't eaten
An alcoholic drink - Beefeater, Larios Opposite of cold
Your daughter's daughter Opposite of low
A colour made from black and white A type of animal with 4 legs you can
Shop where you buy vegetables and fruit ride
A musical instrument played by Andres A place where you go to exercise
Segovia A building with rooms and a garden
A type of animal like a monkey Opposite of goodbye
Athens is the capital of this country If you go on holiday you may stay in
Bottles are made of this one
Past participle of give Opposite of love
The opposite of boy
A very expensive material
I J
Opposite of possible
The first month
Opposite of out
Type of trousers - Levi's
The Taj Mahal is in this country
A sweet food you have on bread
Violin, piano, flute are musical _____
If you work you have one of these
A very, very small animal - eg. fly, spider
A type of martial arts
You give this to someone if you want them
The sixth month
to come to your party
Another word for sweater
Frozen water
The seventh month
Dublin is the capital of this country
A short coat
Opposite of out of
Where snakes etc. live
The building where eskimos live
A type of music
You are this if you have got a cold:
Tokyo is the capital of this country
opposite of well
K L
Meat from sheep
An animal that lives in Australia
Opposite of first
Assassinate
Opposite of early
One thousand grammes
An old language that no one speaks.
What you open a door with
Past participle of lose
What Japanese people wear
Someone who doesn't work hard is this
Don Juan Carlos is this person in Spain
Opposite of right
Past participle of know
If you didn't have these you couldn't
The middle part of your leg
walk
A room where you cook
Opposite of dark
What you cut things with
Where you can borrow books from
Past participle of keep
French, Spanish, Esperanto etc.
One thousand metres
Opposite of "a lot"

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M N
Female pop singer Not wide
She is your father's wife Between the head and shoulders
A very long running race Three times three
The third month Oslo is the capital
You do it in church The eleventh month
Big city in the south of France Opposite of always
You light cigarettes with them Religious woman
The fifth month You smell with it
Chicken, pork, lamb, vela etc. 6,7,2,9,13 etc.
It comes from cows They work in hospitals
You can see yourself in it A type of synthetic fibre
Not less John, Peter, Susan, Mary etc.
O P
Capital of Norway You wear them in bed
Opposite of under Opposite of pull
Opposite of in Young dog
The first The sex pistols, the damned, stiff little fingers.
Heart, liver, lungs, kidneys Mr. Clinton is one.
Big-small, rich-poor, cheap-expensive Someone who is never late is this
Not closed Opposite of push
Vegetable To distribute a book
The smallest number Place where you drink alcohol
Opposite of young You put your food on it
Place where a secretary works Eastern European country
It's black and petrol is made from it Leader of the Catholic church
Q R
Not slow A flower
Opposite of answer It heats the house
Elizabeth the Second You listen to it
To divide into 4 equal parts The colour of blood
Four footed animal To save someone from danger
Amount A place where someone cooks for you
You find this mineral in watches Food - small white grains
Shaped like a circle Not common
Not noisy Moscow is its capital
General knowledge test To say again
Protagonist in Cervantes novel A shape

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S T
Sixth day of the week Animal of the cat family
You put it on your food
Type of fish you can buy in a tin
There is a lot of it at the beach
Musical instrument
Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc.
Where you go to learn
Country in Britain
After the first
Small unit of time
The sun does it
Big boat
It's white and cold
U V
Country in South America
Opposite of over
The name of the metro in London
Take your clothes off
Without a job
Opposite of down
Perfect state
Place where you learn
You use it when it's raining
Opposite of beautiful
Not organised
W Y
When 2 countries fight each other
You look at it when you want to
know the time
Ceremony when a man and a woman
get
married
Country in Britain
Seven days
A bicycle has got 2
Strong alcoholic drink
Movement of air
Cold season
Past participle of write
Opposite of lose
Not cold
Place where you see animals
Person who makes clothes
Opposite of short
Water comes out of them
You do it with the tongue
A car that takes you where you want
Hammer, saw, spanner etc.
A popular English drink
You use them to eat with
A game played with 2 people and a ball
A finger
Part of the leg
A big number
You do this at an election
Country in South America
A planet
Fear of heights
Musical instruments
Sixth sign of the zodiac
Strong alcoholic drink
Hot geological phenomena
Unit of electrical force
Way of copying T.V. programmes
Words
Onion, carrot, potato etc.
Give, take, walk, speak, drink etc.
A colour
365 days
Opposite of no
Opposite of old
Second person pronoun
The day before
A food made with milk
A young person who is very rich
The money in Japan
Hindu system of meditation
Z
Black and white animal
Nothing or nought Every pair of trousers has one
A type of Buddism The last letter of the alphabet
A tribe from South Africa When the sun is at the highest point in the
sky