Monthly Archives: April 2012

Charles Dickens’ London

Level: Upper Intermediate/ Advanced Location: Computer Classroom Skills Focus: Reading Language Activity:  Note-taking Language focus: Used to/ would/ could have Game: Charles Dickens’ London To celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, Digital Play has found a game for you packed full of lovely written text for your learners to practice reading and learn a [...]

Unlocked achievements

We have written about gamification in previous posts on this blog, including tools such as Class Dojo and Chore Wars. Here’s another way you can use the idea of gamification in class if you have a data projector and computer (or IWB) in order to motivate students to work harder and for you to help [...]

Digital Play on the short-list for an ELTON

Kyle and I are very excited that Digital Play (the book, not the blog) has been short-listed for a British Council 2012 ELT Innovations award (an ELTON). This prestigious award is given to the very best in English Language Teaching. Competition is fierce, given the amount of very high quality language teaching and learning materials [...]

Reservoir Dogme

Level: Upper Intermediate/ mature students Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Speaking Language focus:  Meaning from context/ hypothetical situations Game: Mr. Vengeance This game contains scenes of cartoon violence (against stickmen) using guns and with scenes of blood so discretion is advised when using this game.  Adapting this game came about as a result of mature students in [...]