GAME: “Ark Nova”
– B2-C2 (advanced) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
One of my favourite board games is called, Ark Nova. This deeply strategic game focuses on competitively creating a zoo, populating it with a variety of animal species in improvement of your commercial appeal, while you balance this with your university connections and animal conservation efforts.
WHAT TO LEARN
By playing this game with others, you can practice and learn many different elements of the English language, including:
speaking
actively thinking in English
reading comprehension
present simple
infinitive
giving instructions
cause and effect
use of the modal verb, “may”
vocabulary related to:
zoos
animals
animal conservation
research
numbers
card collecting
geography
strategization
balance
competition
and much more…!
Ark Nova is an international award-winning board game, so you can often find it at your local board game store, toy store, book store, and/or department store. If you want to try playing it virtually, you can do so by signing up to BoardGameArena.com, where you can play with other players for free or for a cheap $4 CAD/month membership fee (as of 2026).
