Hello and welcome my friend!
Today’s lesson is a lot of fun AND you’ll be learning English. Fantastic!
Hitcents.com, a creative agency from Kentucky, has designed a game played by hundreds of people online. Do you know what a stickman is? A stickman is a person drawn with short lines; a very simplified version of a huma beingn.
“Draw a stickman” gives you instructions on what to draw so that your stickman can have a fun adventure. It’s really cool and original.
Want to play?
First check the vocabulary to make sure you understand all the words you will see.
Vocabulary Episode 1
Key – an object that is used to open locks. It opens things which are closed.
Balloon – a large plastic sac which is inflated with air and used as a child’s toy. If it is filled with hot air, it will rise in the air.
Weird – unusual or strange.
Sword – a weapon with a long metal blade that has a sharp point and edge.
Rain cloud – A cloud white or gray mass in the sky that is made of many very small drops of water. A rain cloud is a cloud which is darker and will certainly bring rain.
Above – on top of.
Drain – something (such as a pipe) that is used for removing a liquid from a place or container.
Vocabulary Episode 2
Ladder – a device used for climbing that has two long pieces of wood, metal, or rope with a series of steps or rungs between them.
Rescue – to save (someone or something) from danger or harm.
Costume – the clothes that are worn by someone (such as an actor) who is trying to look like a different person or thing. In this case, you must make your stickman look like a tiger.
Bucket – an open container with a handle that is used especially to hold and carry water and other liquids.
Elevator – a machine used for carrying people and things to different levels in a building. In English, it’s called a lift.
That’s handy! – an expression that means something is very useful or helpful.
Weight – a heavy object.
Stuck – difficult or impossible to move from a position.
Beaver – a small animal that has thick, brown fur and a wide, flat tail, that cuts down trees with its teeth, and that builds dams and underwater houses with mud and branches.
Wings – a part of an animal’s body that is used for flying or gliding.
Climb on – to move onto something else.
Back button – the button in your browser you use to visit the page you where before.
Disaster – something that has a very bad effect or result.
Game!
Important!! We’d love it if you could do a screenshot of your stickman and post it on our ABA English Facebook wall!
Very good vocabulary, but I couldn’t understand how the game works…. episode 1 and 2 for me are still a mistery, I’m sorry….
Hi Roberto! You have to do what the computer tells you. So for example, if the stickman says “draw a sword”, you must draw a sword and the game will continue 🙂
Hello Gabriel,
I have been reading about your journey and your method in teaching languages and find it fascinating. Let me watch some more videos and I will be happy to use one of them on our blog. However, I tried to access the demo Anki deck to check it out, but the URL does not work.
Thanks and hope to be in contact!