HEXALEX

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
The teacher says the answer and the students must think of possible questions.
The students themselves think of the questions.
The students must think of a sentence that contains two words that begin with the letter.
Make photocopies and get the students to play in small groups.
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
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.
Forget the high-tech and just chalk a grid onto the blackboard.