Zombie Virus Game

Description

For this game, there are humans, zombies, and doctors. The teacher will choose select students to start off as zombies or doctors (how many depends on the size of your class). Small cards can be given to each student to let them know what they are.

When the game starts, students go around and play each other in rock, paper, scissors. The loser asks the question and the winner answers OR if your target language consists only of a statement, just have the winner say the statement.

Depending on what the student is (human, zombie, or doctor), they respond with different answers if they win rock, paper, scissors. Make sure students whisper their answers in the other student’s ear so they don’t reveal what they are to surrounding students. Zombies turn humans into zombies and doctors turn zombies back into humans, but only if they are the winner of rock, paper, scissors. If a human wins, nothing happens. At the end of the game, if more than half the class are humans, humans win! However, if more than half are zombies, zombies win!!

Notes

This game has never been played. If you do try it out, please leave a comment!

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Posted byTrevor on April 4, 2024(last edited April 5, 2024)

One comment on “Zombie Virus Game”

  1. Chris says:
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    I tried this game with my ESG4 students. They love the regular zombie game and ask me for it almost every single class, though we have only played it maybe 5 times in 2 years. It's important to find a good ration of zombies to humans. If there are to many zombies and not enough doctors, it's too quick to just completely overrun the humans, but of course all the zombies also disappear if you have too many doctors. I had 2 doctors, 4 zombies, and 5 normal humans. It wasn't too bad for a class of only 11. Also, the first time I played this, I was not careful in thinking about what each group should say, and it was difficult for the students. Please don't be like me and be more careful choosing the language the zombies and doctors should say. I recommend trying to find something that you can reuse every time you play this game for the younger grades. So, basically, don't make mistakes like I did, and your kids should love this game. Mine did even with my mistakes!

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