First you need to know how to play the original Gun, Heart, Bomb.
If you already know how to play it … just scroll down to the next paragraph. If you don’t know how to play it; I will quickly explain how to do it now.
You will need to draw a large grid on the board. At the top of the grid, you will need to write the letters A – J. Put the A in the first box on the far left. Put the letter B in the box to the right of A. Then C, and so on.
You will need to write the numbers from 1 to 10 in the boxes on the far left. Have the number one in the top box. Write the number 2 in the box below. The number 3 below the 2 and so on.
You should now have a large grid on the board. Your ESL students should be able to easily pick a box: A – 6, F – 2, 7 – G, etc.
During your prep time, you must decide which ESL games to play. If you decide to play this game … then you will have to draw the same grid on a sheet of paper.
On your grid, you will need to fill in all the boxes. These are the elements that you can put in each box.
Gun, Heart, Bomb – Articles from the original version:
A weapon means that you can shoot members of the opposing team at the hit point.
A heart means that you can give an additional hit point to one of your teammates.
A bomb will explode and explode whoever chose that box and minus one of their life points.
Gun, Heart, Bomb – Version 2.0 Items:
The gun, the heart and the bomb are items that your students can find in this version of the game.
Also included in this set are:
A Tank – A tank can shoot a person from the other team 3 times.
A helicopter: A helicopter can shoot three other people once.
A Flamethrower: A flamethrower can shoot two people twice.
And of course, use your creativity to create even new items.
When you start the game, you will have to divide the class into equal teams. Give each student the same number of life points.
And because this is an ESL game to play during your English class … you will need to practice English before and during the game.
What I usually do is have all the students stand up. I will ask you a question. Once they have answered the question correctly, they can sit down. When all the students are seated ~ I will let one person from each team have their turn.
If it is Jimmy’s turn and he chooses box 8 – C … the ESL teacher will have to look at his answer sheet that he wrote during his prep time to see what is in that box.
Keep playing until one team destroys all of the other team’s hit points.