story of the game

History of the game:

The idea for the Diversonopoly project was first developed within the framework of a Grundtvig contact seminar in Toulouse, in November 2007. We (all partners) met there and decided to go on with the original idea of forming an intercultural board game that would serve foreign language learning classes and any intercultural setting as an ice-breaker and as a playful yet useful ground for intercultural communication.

The person who came up with the idea was Mrs Kerstin Liedtke who then contacted Mr Thomas Vondrak and formulated the concept of the board game.

Basic information

• Τarget-audience: immigrants, adults or/and teenage learners of the mother tongue as a second/foreign language coming from a different linguistic and cultural background.
• Language level: B1/B2 following the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) descriptors and levels (the language level can be adjusted).
• Μain objective: “ice-breaking”, development of the intercultural and language awareness and learning
• Playing method: 6 question categories, 2 different versions, about 32 - 600 different questions, proposals instead of rules.
• Basic proposal: there is no winner- if there is a need for a winner, that would be the first to “win” all question categories
• Indicative implementation time: two teaching hours, it can be played in sequences and among classes
• Implementation framework: the language learning class of the mother tongue as a second/foreign language. Teachers and trainers may include Diversonopoly as a game in the class or adjust it according to the language needs of the target-audience.