Snow Slalom: a grammar and punctuation game for the 11+

About Snow Slalom

Snow Slalom practises grammar and punctuation as a slalom race, but the race clock only runs while the skis are moving, never while your child is reading a question. Each run has four gates and a harder jump challenge: the blue run leans on grammar, the red run on punctuation, and the black run mixes both. The total time over the three runs decides the medal.

A wrong answer clips the gate and adds 1.6 seconds, and the trap is explained before the race goes on. Questions get harder after three right in a row and easier after two misses in a row. At the end, the race analysis gives a score for grammar and for punctuation and goes through every trap with a worked explanation.

How to play Snow Slalom

1. Choose a slope (Nursery Slope, Piste Pro or Black Diamond), or take the daily challenge.
2. Read each question while the skis wait at the gate, then tap your answer.
3. Answer while the bar is long to take a tighter line and a faster gate time.
4. Get three right in a row for a powder run, which makes each further right answer quicker until a miss.
5. Land the jump challenge at the end of each run, then read the race analysis to see how each trap works.

What it practises for the 11+

Grammar

11+ grammar questions ask your child to name word classes, match a verb to its true subject, choose the right tense and spot mistakes such as less for fewer or I for me. Each one builds the habit of checking how every word in a sentence works. Learn the topic →

Punctuation

Questions cover capital letters, end marks, commas, inverted commas, its and it’s, and apostrophes for missing letters and for belonging. Your child picks the correctly punctuated sentence, fills an apostrophe gap or finds the part of a sentence with the mistake. Learn the topic →

Try Snow Slalom questions

Questions from the game, for you to try together. Have a go before opening the answer.

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