Adventures in Dream Orchard

A Homemade PowerPoint GameBy

Lynn&

Zenobia

Play the game

Game Directions

Story

Credits

Copyright Notice

Game Preparation

Objectives

Game Pieces

The Story of the “Adventure in Dream

Orchard”It’s time to harvest!!! After three years’ study in Junior High School, you must have lots of fruits of your study. Imagine you are lying in your bed in the evening. You try to read more, but you can’t help falling asleep after a day’s study. There, you are coming to a mysterious forest and you are wondering where you are and suddenly you find a big and shiny castle! With several paths surrounding it! You can’t help setting out your feet for them! What’s awaiting for you? Now, be prepared and make your choice, begin your adventure in the dream orchard .

Home Page

Game Directions

Return

To play this game, you have to make choices who start first by throwing dice. Then you will choose to start with which tree: the green one, the golden one, or the red one. With each tree, you also have different choices to pick the fruit you like and then follow the instruction with each slide. For each correct answer to the

question, you will win a corresponding sticker of fruit picture as a prize; for the wrong answer, you will have to try again. Finally, the group which gets the most stickers of fruits will win.

Game Preparation

Home Page

Divide the students into three groups.Have a dice to take turns.Prepare stickers of fruit picture as prize.

Game Pieces

Return

Credits

Home Page

All teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited.

• Originally designed by Lynn Yin and Zenobia Wang, Zhengzhou 47 Middle School of Zhengzhou,China on Feb. 28, 2012. “Adventure in Dream Orchard”.

Educational Objectives

Home Page

This game is designed to help grade nine students review what they’ve learnt in English class. We aim at mastering the words and phrases that students easily mix them in understanding and using. Hopefully this will make learning not that boring.

Copyright

Home Page

• Copyright 2012 Lynn Yin and Zenobia Wang• Permission to copy this game at no cost is

granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools.

• Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.

Home Page

It’s time to adventure in your dream orchard. Which arrow will be your choice? Just click!

Home Page

A tree with life and hope! What’s in it! JUST follow the arrow!

Home Page

Which is your favorite?

1.) When my mother is not at home, I have to babysit my sister, which of the following can take the place of “babysit”?

– Sit down– Look after– Look at

2.) My little brother is very clever, he can always think up good ideas when he meets problems. Which of the following

has the same meaning as “think up”?:

think aboutcome outcome up with

3.) My father is good at repairing things. We can also say: My father is good at

___ things.

fixing upmaking doing

4.) A: Hey, look at that girl. Is she Lucy?B: No, she is Lucy’s mother. Lucy takes after her mother. Which phrase has the same meaning as “take after”?

• Look after• Is similar to• Is like with

Home Page

Can you expect a harvest here? Go!

Home Page

This is in a dream, just reach out your hand…

1.) Lily is not upstairs. Maybe she is ___.

• inside• outside• downstairs

2.)A: Let’s go the supermarket to get something to eat.

B: I’m afraid it’s closed now. It can’t be__ so late.

• opened• open• close

3.) I asked Lily for her homework, but she said she didn’t remember to do

it.That means she ________ her homework.

• forgets to do• forgot doing• forgot to do

4.) I am thirsty. I asked mom for some milk. But she said she couldn’t because there is ____ milk in the fridge. But I

only want a little milk!

• little• a little• few

Home Page

There is a hope of harvest the most. And there is the most fruitful tree. Do have a try!

Home Page

Wow! Charming fruits! My mouth is watering. I can’t help reaching out for them…

1.) My father was ___ the newspaper when I arrived home.

• Seeing• Looking at• reading

2.) The river runs __ the city.

• through• Over• across

3.) I spend ___ practicing speaking English every day.

• sometime• sometimes• Some time

4.) ___ will your father be back? -- In two days.

• How long• How much• How soon

That is Correct!Give yourself applause and a fruit!

Back to Red Tree

Back to Yellow Tree

Back to Green Tree

Sorry, that’s incorrect.

Try Again! Take a Closer Look…..

Back to Red Tree

Back to Yellow Tree

Back to Green Tree