Monthly Archives: October 2009

Machinarium – a phrasal verb gap fill activity

Machinarium is an incredible hand drawn online video game with engaging puzzles, a little humour and a walkthrough that is great for a phrasal verbs gap fill activity. The Game You are a robot and you find yourself in a scrap yard and you need to get back to the city.  First of all you [...]

Gateway – a puzzle game for whole class activity

Gateway is a short, absorbing and entertaining puzzle game with ten levels that can be used to generate language in the ESL classroom, especially if you have access to a connected classroom (with an internet enabled computer and a data projector). The Game You have to guide a robot through a number of different rooms, [...]

Narrative Tenses With Grow Cube

Level: Intermediate Topic: Writing stories Writing Focus: Narrative tenses Time: 30 – 40 minutes Game: Grow Cube Key Language: canal    pool    pot    pipe    waterfall    dish    steps    cave    tower    skull    springs    dug    planted   flowed    built    grew    cut down    lit    added    threw [...]

‘Word up’ with fun, free and engaging vocabulary games

Here’s a brief description of ten word games that require very little preparation and some tips on how to use them.  All these games were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and fun for English Language Learners. 1)                 Fowl words – Seven hens have laid an egg each with a letter on.  Use the letters [...]