EXPLAINING RULES - Card Games and

Group GamesUnit 20ASL III

In our daily lives, we often find reason to discuss rules. They can be rules we live by such as driving rules, societal rules, cultural rules or school rules; or they can be the rules we play by such as rules for party games, card games, or children’s games.

Explaining Rules

In this unit, you will learn to give clear instruction or explanations using classifiers and conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relative clauses. You will learn rule-related vocabulary needed to achieve this goal. You will develop strategies for explaining rules while playing a game and learn to use attention-getting behaviors to manage a group during a game.

Explaining Rules

Explaining a Card Game1. How the game is set up.

□ Make the position of players and card arrangement clear using LCL’s, ICL’s, and spatial agreement.

2. How the game is played.□ Set up hypothetical situations to help you

explain the rule(s). Use conditional clauses.

3. How the game is won.□ Use a rhetorical clause to explain how

someone wins.

Card-Related Vocabulary □ Ace□ King□ Queen□ Jack□ Clubs□ Spades□ Hearts□ Diamonds

□ Deal the cards□ Hold the cards□ To turn face up□ To take card(s) from□ To take turns□ To run out of/get rid of

(all cards)

Explaining a Card Game: War2 PLAY+ER (2h)SCL:V “sit facing each other”

DEAL TILL ALL-GONE. ICL “place cards in hand.”

TIME+SAME (2h)LCL:B “place top card down, face up” WHO HIGH, TAKE-FROM “table”. IF (2h)LCL:B “place face up,” EQUAL, (2h)LCL:B “add 3 more cards face down,” FOURTH, (2h)LCL:B “flip face up” WHO !HIGH! COLLECT “all”.

WHO COLLECT “all”, #ALL fs-CARDS, FINISH WIN.

Review the grammar structures and card vocabulary. Then watch how John describes the position of the players, how to set up, how to play, and how to win (the card game “War”).

You Try One: Memory□ HOW-MANY PLAY+ER, NOT-

MATTER. 2 MORE-THAN□ (2h)LCL:B “place cards in a

series of rows on the table” TILL ALL-GONE.

□ PICK 2 (2h)LCL:B “flip them over”.

□ IF SAME-AS “2 selected CARDS” K, K, (2h) TAKE-FROM “table”.

□ AGAIN, (2h)LCL:B “flip other cards over” IF DIFFERENT, (2h)LCL:B “flip them down,” me-GIVE-TURN-TO-next person.

□ WHO MOST fs-CARDS, WIN.

Practice explaining this card game (Memory). As you practice it, think of the steps and elements required as you sign them.

Explaining a Group Game1. How the game is set up.

□ How is the arrangement of players described?

2. How the game is played.□ How is the information sequenced?□ How are contrastive structure,

conditional clauses, and rhetorical questions used to explain the rules?

3. How the game is won.□ How is a rhetorical clause used to explain

how someone wins?

Group Game Related Vocabulary

□ To win□ To lose□ Captain/Leader□ Points□ Line up facing away from teacher□ Line up facing teacher□ Line up in a row facing teacher□ Line up in a row facing away from teacher□ Make 2 lines facing teacher□ Make 2 lines facing each other

Explaining a Group Game: Lady, Tiger, or CameraPractice using Stefanie’s instructions. Pay attention to where raised eyebrows and head tilt are used to signal different types of sentence structures.

Imagine yourself trying to explain this game to a group. Think about:

where is the best place to stand to explain the game

what parts of the game are better explained before the players take their positions

what is better explained by playing or doing

how to hold the group’s attention throughout your explanation

Watch Stefanie explain how to play the group game. Analyze how Stefanie explains the rules of the game.

ReviewThroughout this presentation, you have learned the following:

□ Explaining a card and group game (basic sequence):1. How the game is set up.

□ Make the position of players and card arrangement clear using LCL’s, ICL’s, and spatial agreement.

1. How the game is played.□ Set up hypothetical situations to help you explain the

rule(s). Use conditional clauses.1. How the game is won.

□ Use a rhetorical clause to explain how someone wins.

□ Card-related vocabulary

□ Group Game-related vocabulary