Monthly Archives: September 2010

Bonte Room Adjective Order

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Classroom then Computer room Skills Focus: Reading & Writing Language Focus: Adjective word order Game: Bonte Room This is a very short point and click game.  In the gap fill exercise some of the gaps can be filled by simply playing the game and copying them into the right place.  Some objects [...]

Space Quest Reader

Level: Pre-intermediate+ Location: Computer room Skills Focus: (Relay) Reading Language Focus: Directions & Prepositions of place Game: Space Quest This is a short and simple sci-fi point and click game. Preparation Download a copy of the Space Quest Walkthrough and make a single copy to put on the wall of the computer room. Pre-play Put [...]

A Pre-intermediate Reading activity

A cute point and click game with a graded reader for pre-intermediate learners. Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Computer room Skills focus: Reading Game: Bamba Snack Quest A squirrel steals your crisps.  Bamba decides to go and get his crisps back but the ending might be a little different to what your learners predict . . . [...]

Top Ten Guinness Book of Gaming Records

Here’s a list of World records from the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s edition.  Can you identify which numbers below go in the spaces for each record? 376          1 million       24.84 million      2,468        214       156        379,552,748   [...]

The Impossible Quiz Book

A fun channel 4 commissioned quiz game that has a lot to do with play on words than word play.  Its surprising how low a level you can do this with as the quiz tests their passive knowledge of the language.  However, the language is a high level and if you don’t think fart, poo [...]