[LouannePiccolo]

Hello,

I'm not sure which version you have seen or where you have seen it, and I suppose the game can be used in so many ways, but I use tic-tac-toe often and this is how I do it:

I often use it to teach vocabulary or reading but you can adapt it to sentence use too. Students draw up a grid of 9 squares. I write a word in each square. The aim is to get three in a row, either diagonally, horizontally or vertically, in order to win.

The first student will pick a square and make a sentence with that word in the tense they are revising or using the structure I want them to revise. If they make a mistake or can't do the task then they can't claim the square. If they are successful, they get to place a token in the square (this can be a coin, piece of wood, a dried bean or whatever you have).

There is a double task in this game. Students must try and get three in a row and block their component at the same time. This means that students don't always get to choose the square they want and may have to make an attempt on a square just to stop their component from winning. This makes the game more difficult for students who always try to do only the work they are sure they can do!

So, how can you adapt this to the present perfect? Put part of a sentence in the squares and ask students to make a full sentence in the present perfect. For example: you could put "break a leg" in a square so that students could come up with "I have broken my leg".

Louanne