Teacher guide · Hall of Banners

Team scoreboard: how to use it in class

Team points the room can read from anywhere, with a crown that finds the leader on its own.

At a glance

Three ways to play it differently once the class knows the rules.

Points for English
Give a point whenever a team asks for something in English instead of in their own language.
Teamwork points
Score the behaviour you want — tidy tables, helping, a raised hand — not only the right answers.
Beside another game
Keep the hall open in a second tab and switch to it after each round of another game.

Word lists that suit it, with pictures and translations.

Interactive Game

Every name is a pebble in a leather pouch. Tip it over a circle of standing stones and the class lands in fair, random teams.

Interactive Game

Tip the leather cup and one to four ivory dice tumble out onto the velvet. The total is stamped into the felt in wax.

Interactive Game

One question, two great doors, one answer on each. The class votes, and the right door swings open into the light.

Interactive Game

A painted carnival wheel with your class on its slices. Spin it, hear the ratchet slow, and a ticket prints with the lucky name.

Teacher Tool
Team scoreboard
Two to four teams, big buttons, numbers the back row can read.
Interactive Game · 5–15 min
Two Doors
One question, two great doors, one answer on each. The class votes, and the right door swings open into the light.
Interactive Game · 5–15 min
Painter's Attic
A secret word arrives on a painter's palette and you draw it on a real easel canvas — brush sounds, paint-blob colours and a skylight for a timer.
Worksheet
In, on, under — where things are — worksheet
Fill the gap, put the words in order, circle the right one — answers at the bottom.