Title: Days Card Game
Type: Game
Target: Days of the Week
Materials: cards available form genkienglish.net
Procedure: The days of the week in English have a special meaning. They each
go with a planet. Tuesday - Mars Wednesday - Mercury Thursday - Jupiter
Friday –Venus = Saturday - Saturn. Sunday, of course, is named for the sun.
Monday – named for the moon. Now I have these cards. Each one has one day
of the week on it and a number. The number matches how far it is away from
the sun. The farthest planet had the biggest number. Now in partners we will
play the card game. The first person asks “What day is it?” The next person
turns over a card and says “it’s _______.” The other person turns over their card
too. Whichever card has the biggest number takes both cards into their pile.
Whoever collects all 7 cards (or you can play for the most cards) is the winner.
If there is a tie of numbers, then you do it over again and the winner of the
second time gets all 4 cards!