Author Archives: kylemawer

Online Dictionary Work

Level: Advanced Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  Descriptions of Nouns Game: Mortimer Beckett and The Time Paradox As Mortimer Beckett your task is to travel in time to various points in history and gather fragments of broken objects, put them together and return them to the right time and place.  Good luck! I used this [...]

Top Ten Game-Based Learning Articles

You may have been using digital play elements with your classes for a while now and want to know a little bit more about what’s happening in the field.  Here are our top ten (in no particular order) reading tasks for you edugamers out there.  If you’d like to read and comment on their content [...]

Disney Top Trumps

Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Speaking Language focus:  Comparatives and superlatives Game: Disney Top Trumps This is Disney’s online version of the popular Top Trumps game which is great fun for practicing comparatives and superlatives. Preparation Present  and practice comparative and superlative forms. Pre-play Learners draw a table in their notebook consisting of four columns.  They label [...]

The Idiot Test

Level: Beginners Location: Connected Classroom with an IWB Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  Colours, shapes & basic vocabulary Game: The Idiot Test This is a great game to have on an interactive whiteboard for fast finishers.  Learners can take it in turns to see who can get furthest through the game before making a mistake and having to start [...]

Honoloko – The Health and Environment Game

Level: Upper Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Reading Topic:  Health & the Environment Game: Honoloko Choose your character (a breakdancer or a kung-fu master) and move around the island reading facts about health and the environment, answer a few questions and when you get to the end you’ll find out how well you’ve done.  Your score points [...]

Dragons, Dictionaries & Diligent Reading

Level: Upper intermediate+ Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Reading Language focus: Following instructions Game: Nick Toldy & The Legend of Dragon Peninsula I like this game not only for its engaging storyline and entertaining main character but also because of the sheer amount of text that this game uses and demands both in game in the form of dialogue [...]

Music Box Of Life

Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Writing Language focus:  There is / There are some/n’t any Game: Music Box of Life This is a nice spot the difference game.  Nice for two reasons.  One, that there is no time limit so learners have time to look, talk and write.  Two, that as you find the differences and [...]

Scan The Scale of The Universe

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  Question forms Game:  The Scale of The Universe This interactive guide allows you to zoom in from the edge of the known universe right down through to the smallest thing known (quantum foam) while looking at a few things along the way and in between. Preparation None.  Pre [...]

Digital Play Around The World

Scoop.it is a great free tool to use in class by getting your learners to curate their own highly visual magazines.  They choose a topic they are interested in, source content for their scoop.it online, then they scoop.it. They can edit the links description and also write a personal reflection or comment below. If you’ve [...]

Lucky Luke?

Level: Upper Intermediate+ Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  Expressing opinions/ modals of probability Game: Luke Luke has been trapped by Alexis and it looks like after his very first date he is being tricked into marriage.  You need to help him get out of getting married by solving various puzzles. I like this game for a [...]