TPT: Fruit Dominoes

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” goes the famous saying. More often than not, pupils will learn the word ‘apple’ as one of their first fruit words. But what about the other fruits? To help, I created a set of Fruit Dominoes that can make learning English fun!

Talking about different types of fruit can be really helpful when discussing what you eat every day or what your food preferences are. It’s also useful for real life situations when you go to the supermarket in an English-speaking country.

Teaching pupils about fruit, and other types of food, can lead to fun activities such as tasting sessions or cooking lessons with your class. With my classes, I loved bringing in typical British food items for my pupils to try. Something they found interesting was how fruit is packaged in the UK and also where it’s imported from. It’s a good learning opportunity for them to create links with their home country.

How to play

Just like the Halloween Dominoes I created, these Fruit Dominoes can be used in the same way. Pupils can play them individually or as a team. They can try to translate each food item without looking at the images. Or they could show the images to a partner and their partner has to correctly name the fruit.

My intention for all of my domino activities is that they can be used for two things: initial learning and reinforcement learning. Initial learning is when pupils are first introduced to the vocabulary so it is new to them. Reinforcement learning is when they have already encountered the vocabulary and they are now just reviewing it.

I really believe that language learning should be fun. Playing games such as dominoes is a great way for pupils to enjoy English and motivate them to continue learning.

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