Snail Books

Elements of the game

• Toy snail
• Illustrated storyline strips for attaching to the snail's neck

Aims of the game:

Intellectual

• Inventing step-by-step, interesting stories
• Describing pictures
• Developing mental activity
• Increasing attention span
• Reinforcing memory
• Developing logical skills

Educational

Grammar

• Simple present and simple past tenses
• Sentence building (interrogative, affirmative, negative forms) using these tenses
• Use of strong verbs (have/had, make/made)

Vocabulary

• Regular and strong verbs; nouns, pronouns, adjectives

Results/Teaching outcome

Psychological/cultural

This game is foremost about developing and strengthening memory. It also encourages logic skills. Players will understand how to build sequential stories with a beginning, middle and end - and a moral. The game also teaches patience and unhurried, step by step expression of a point of view, following a clear storyline.