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What's in the fridge?! 'There is/are' board game 🎲 🎲 🎲

Updated: May 3, 2019


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Well that was a lot, and I mean A LOT, of work 😅 But I am very happy with the final effect which I am going to not only show you but also share with you! 🎉🎉

I'm still working on countable and uncountable nouns with grade 4. We are now covering picture description with "there is/are" putting it all together. I wanted to make something that will really drill this sentence structure. I already have something but it's using "toys" and "furniture" vocab (check it out here) and I wanted something with "food".

I spent one evening sitting in my bed staring at the wall, thinking . . . I knew I wanted to make a board game but I didn't want it to be exactly the same as every other game I have in my classroom, only with different grammar and vocab. It took me two days to perfect the idea but I think I've made something that will get my kids really excited 😁 And here it is:


The game's called "What's in the fridge?!". It's composed of a board, cards, and golden "coins". You need counters and dice to play it. Here are the rules:

  • you set a time limit on each game, e.g. 10 minutes

  • you roll the die and move along the board

  • if you land on a space which says "pick a card" you ... pick a card 😝 from the pile in the middle

  • your task is to make a correct sentence: ✔︎ means a positive statement; ✘ means a negative statement

  • each correct sentence needs to start with "there is/are" and include "some/any/a/an"

  • if your sentence was correct you collect the amount of coins that you card tell you to

  • if your sentence is incorrect you lose the amount of coins that your card tells you to

  • after ten minutes, the player with the most coins wins

If it's a bit confusing look at the cards closely: