Monthly Archives: June 2011

Gaming Soundtracks

Level: Intermediate/ upper intermediate Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Writing Language Focus: Relative clauses This is a nice little activity to stimulate a little writing in class.  I have used it to practice relative clauses but there’s no reason that you can’t just forget a language focus and just get learners to write.  I’ve done [...]

Playing At Pirates With ‘The Ballad of Kinetto’

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean‘ has proved such a successful movie franchise that we’ve decided to get in on the act at Digital Play.  The Ballad of Kinetto is a series of online pirate adventure games involving strong narrative features, some great puzzles and its own pirate heroes – Kinetto and Amber.  ‘The Pirates of [...]

Free Online Game Creator

This free downloadable game creator let’s you make your very own flash games. If you’ve ever fancied turning your hand to making a simple flash game or perhaps you’re looking for a summer course project to run with learners then Stencyl could be just the program for you.  It’s free, online, simple to download and [...]

Stars for good behaviour

Level: Kids of all levels Location: Connected classroom Aim: Better classroom management Game: Flight My star chart for good behaviour was looking a bit dog-eared so I decided to look for some Digital Play that would replace it and I found this game: What is the game? It’s quite simple really.  You pick up the [...]