雅思口语素材大搜集——童年之游戏

看到某个英语论坛的一个问题：what are some joys that come really cheap?很多人就忍不住sense of nostalgia，回忆起童年的各种innocent games，那时候，天空是蓝蓝的，空气是香香的，世界就是我们的游乐场，万事万物都可以成为我们的玩具。似乎快乐，童年，游戏三者就是一个统一体，可as a chronic fun-spoiler, I have to say it is just a romantic version of childhood when you see it through rosy lens.

排除掉从魂斗罗（contra），俄罗斯方块（brick game），超级马里奥（Mario），拳皇（king of fighters）到魔兽世界（world of warcraft），刀塔（DoTa），英雄联盟（league of legends），穿越火线（cross fire）等一干video games，即with limitation on TV and computer，有些什么游戏能闪回（flash back）。排名第一位的，好似是hide and seek，其次有tag（追逐游戏），还有hopscotch（跳房子），还有本人觉得很具有成就感的游戏stone skipping（打水漂）。男孩子比较多的marbles，还有女孩子比较多的rope jump.

 

1

魔幻角色扮演 magical role play

Me and my sisters spent our childhood playing a game that could turn into anything from treasure hunt, adventures in strange lands to magical wars.

I thought I was a great adventurer and kept exploring this small forested place around my house seeking treasure (It looked more like a deep mysterious jungle to us). I had a goat who was a great climber. He taught me to climb the hills. I would pick up weird seeds and bring them to my sisters as the eyes of strange animals. They particularly liked a red-black seed which we thought belonged to the fire crow. Once we found a pit that had a lot of broken toys. (Later we realized that we were plundering someone's garbage dump)

round our house we spent most of the time warring invisible forces.  The tree below was my favorite horse and I used to shoot arrows at other tree monsters while riding it. But sometimes it became my castle too. The defense strategy of my castle was to shake vigorously if enemy came nearby. It had a lot of heavy green seeds that fell when shaken. So me or my sisters couldn't attack each other when it shook. It also had beautiful yellow flowers that made my sisters' long witch nails.

And sometimes my sisters would dress up as princesses from strange lands. I would enact various strange animals. They used to run around when I became the flying tiger. Their favorite strange animal was the octopus who loved to drink the tea they made. The octopus could sing Arabic songs too.

2

动作角色扮演 action role play

We roared around on our horses (sticks) shooting each other with rifles and handguns (sticks) and dying in agony, only to get up again a few moments later to resume the fighting. Sometimes we would be horribly wounded and the game would morph into Nurses and Doctors with much bandaging and splinting (sticks), injections (sticks), thermometers under tongues (sticks) (... in retrospect I am delighted that we had no idea there was any other way to take temperatures!)

I have no idea if there was any plan or strategy to our games but they were always outdoors, often involved co-opting our willing pets as playmates (we lived in the country and didn't always have enough victims for our shoot-outs). The dogs, we found, quickly learned they were supposed to "die" when shot, the cats however, were hopeless for that. We had to send them off as "carrier pigeons" with notes attached for reinforcements.

We had court cases and put our cowardly teddy-bears on trial for desertion and hanged them, afterwards having lovely ceremonial funerals, complete with flowers and everyone (including the pets) dressed up in mourning clothes.

Oh it was all such fun.

A century ago now, it seems. I can't wait for my second childhood to begin!

3

追捕 "Manhunt"

There were two versions of this game, similar to "It" or "Tag", that we used to play. They both had the same name.

One kid would start off as the bounty hunter (although I doubt we called them that at the time) while all the other kids would run off and hide. The bounty hunter would then have to find them and physically touch them in order to catch them. Once caught, the fugitives turned bounty hunter too, until eventually there was a group of them and only one fugitive remaining who was declared the winner. Basically "Hide and Seek" but on a bigger scale.

There was a team of bounty hunters against a team of fugitives. The bounty hunting team simply had to catch every member of the fugitive team within a set time period to win. If they failed, the fugitives won. The fugitives did not join the bounty hunters in this version. This version can also involve the fugitives trying to reach a particular point (a base) where they must tag something. I remember we used to use either a giant log near the entrance to the woods and in the middle of the field, or a particular tree that stood in the centre of a glade. The final dash for the base was the most exciting part of this version.

This game was great because where I grew up we were lucky enough to have a sizable, but not excessively large, wood near my estate. This consisted of a woodland area, a couple of open fields, a pond area and a hilly part. The fence surrounding it acted as a boundary for the game (you couldn't hide outside the boundary) and we would synchronize our watches for the games with a time period. The first version of the game, at which I excelled, could go on for hours as the last two kids held out like Japanese soldiers in the hills of the Philippines. I had a real knack for finding hiding places and staying dead still and silent. I was also quite adept at running through bushes, climbing trees and leaping over fallen logs. Ah, those were the days

4

丢沙包 dodge ball

I never played this game, but it was a craze amongst most of my friends in school. Two teams are selected at random, and then people scatter in a open area. A person needs to hit a person of the other team with a sponge ball( Sometimes, even cosco balls are used. The plight of the person getting hit!). There is no winner in this game( But you will feel very sore at the end of it!). Whoever gets the ball, gets the chance to hit any person from the opposite team. Passing is allowed too.

5

亲情角色扮演 ‘mother, may I?’

We used to always play this game during recess in elementary school. This game was so much fun!

This game is for as many people that want to play. Everyone, except one person who's alloted the title of "mother or father (in case it's a boy)", is supposed to stand at least 6 feet away.

Each person will ask "mother/father" a question such as, "Mother may I take two steps towards you?" If the mother says, "Yes, you may." The person who asked the question takes two steps forward. If mother says, "No, you may not." The person stays in their spot.

The objective of the game is to reach mother/father. Whoever does this, is the next parental figure in the next round.

I don't remember if there were different rules, but we used to play this game almost 16 years ago. It was extremely fun because people would get creative, such as, "Mother, may I jump 3 steps ahead?" People would always get pissed if they didn't get to be the parental figure.

It's a shame to see kids stuck on their phones, video games, and laptops instead of playing outside. I can definitely say that the 80's and the 90's were the best!

6

打水漂 stone skipping competition

We used to go to the ponds where we would get a lot of flat shaped chunks of stones/mud cups which have been rejected after having tea. We would break them and compete with each other, how many times we could bounce those chunks on water before dispatching it to the diametrically opposite side of the pond. Bouncing stones on water, you must be joking, right? Hell no. Well i found it in the wiki. And it is a serious game with championship. It is called stone skipping. Also you can search how to skip rocks. Here you go:

Step 1: Hold the piece of rock

Step 2: Face the water side ways, legs wide apart, slightly bent on your waist.

Step 3: Bending your wrist and snapping the stone

Step 4: The follow through

Step 5. Practice and more practice. The current record is 40 jumps.

7

蒙眼追逐 blindfold tag

The kids in my family used to play a game we made up called Blindfold Tag. It's pretty self-explanatory. Go into a room and close the door. Blindfold "It". They chase everyone around until they tag someone. Repeat.

If you were "It" you relied on your hearing, feeling, and memory of the room to find players to tag.

Most rounds consisted of leaping off the furniture to get away/tag someone. One time, in a stroke of genius, we silently moved the furniture forward so it was really easy to escape a dead end. That round went on for about half an hour. Another time, my sister tried to jump from one bed to another, and misjudged which bed she was on. She jumped right into the wall and slowly slid down it.

I honestly don't know how this game never resulted in any hospital trips. Also, the adults did not know we played this game until years later when we told them.

8

中国跳绳 Chinese rope jump

First you begin with the rope around the ankles of two children.

Another child jumps in the rope with both feet. Then the child jumps out of the rope with both legs straddling each outside rope. Next, the child jumps from side to side. (Straddling each side of the rope.) Then the child jumps on the rope. Then out again. Finally, the child takes the rope, crosses it using their legs, so that their legs are in side of an x. Then the child has to jump out and straddle the rope.

With each jump if they land on the rope when they are not supposed to, then they are out. Or if they are trying to land on it and miss they are out. Once you accomplish the ankles, you move up to the waist, then below the arms, then finally the neck (I have never seen it go that far.) With each sequence you say, "in, out, side, side, on, in, out."

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