One of many possible game scenarios: Shuffle the domino cards and distribute them to the participants. The game is started by the player with the 12 o'clock card on both sides. The other players add their cards one by one in such a way that the time shown in the picture corresponds to its word notation, or that each added card has to differ by an hour, half an hour or a quarter of an hour from the previous one. The first player to get rid of all domino cards wins. In turn, the one who stays with the card last loses.
Language goals: learning French vocabulary and expressions regarding the time question and units of measurement, and - in the case of children - learning to read the hours on the clock
Age range: children from 7 years of age, adolescents, adults
Application: The game is used both during classes at school and and at home (games with friends and family, or private French lessons).
Additional benefits:The game Les Dominos des heures improves mental skills such as memory, concentration and perceptiveness, promotes effective memorization and teaches activity and healthy competition, and its ludic character helps to establish social relations with other participants of the game and has a positive effect on reducing the distance between the student and the teacher.
Additional cube: The game has been enriched with new game variants thanks to the use of an additional cube extending the educational scope of the game.
Extended instructions: The game comes with an extensive instruction in Polish containing:
methodological introduction for teachers, parents and the players themselves,
extensive game scenarios,
proposals for educational games and exercises.
The instruction in Polish is also a convenience for people who do not know the foreign language sufficiently to read the original, foreign-language version of the instruction, as well as the ability to independently manage language and educational games with children or peers.
