Author Archives: kylemawer

A Fun Adventure For Eyes And Ears

Stage 07 is a fun and engaging adventure game where you play the part of young woman called Ms Webb who is on an assignment for her job.  As you play the game you begin to understand that things are not as simple as they at first appear.  At the heart of the game there [...]

Abuba The Alien

Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Computer room Language Focus: Game vocabulary (things in the street) Skills Focus:  Receptive – Reading Game: Abuba the alien Preparation Download and print a copy of the Abuba the alien worksheet for each learner. Pre Play Hand out dictionaries and the worksheet for learners to work through. Learners complete page 1 of [...]

10 Gaming Genres To Adapt In Class

Here’s a brief description of ten gaming genres and some tips on how they can be used in the classroom.  All these games were chosen because they are popular with young language learners, engaging and fun.  You can read lesson ideas and plans on this blog by following the links. 1  Point and click These [...]

It’s not a walkthrough – it’s a marathon!

Level: Advanced Topic: Discussing a sequence of events Language Focus: Linkers and sequencers, (first of all, then, after that, finally, etc) Location: Classroom/ Computer room Game: War Bears: Mission 1 I like this game because well, it’s fun first and foremost.  It’s also very easy to keep an eye on learner’s progress in the game [...]

10 Websites to source online games

Here’s a brief description of ten online gaming sites that have a range of possible games to adapt for use in the EFL classroom.  All these games were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and easily adaptable.  With each link there is a brief description and some advice on how to adapt the game [...]

Escape the (Plush) Room

Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language Focus: Receptive – There is/ are, prepositions of place.  Productive – Short answers (Yes, I can/have etc) Game: Escape the Plush room Situation My class was pretty proficient with most of language structures I used within the live listening dictation I scripted for this activity (including prepositions of place, [...]

Game Tester Job

Learners watch a short video on game testers and then write a job application to be a game tester. Level: Upper intermediate Location: Connected classroom/ Home Language focus:  Vocabulary of games / Formal language in an application letter Skills Practice: Listening / Reading / Writing Maybe you have looked at formal language for writing a [...]

All About Alice – Chapter 1

We are pleased and honoured that a colleague of ours, Chris Roland, has written our second guest post, all about Inanimate Alice, an engaging digital fiction project for learners. What is Inanimate Alice? The best thing to do, in all honesty, is to go to the Inanimate Alice website yourself, load up one of the [...]

All About Alice – Chapter 2

Last week I told you about Inanimate Alice.  This week I’d like to tell you about how I’ve used IA in my classes. Can you give me an example of a specific activity you do with IA? Sure. So a clearly defined task, teacher monitoring and evaluation are paramount. With this in mind I divide [...]

I ‘Adam & Eve’ it!

Level: Primary Language: Narrative devices Skills Focus: Reading or Listening Location: Computer room or Connected classroom Game: Adam & Eve This is a simple point and click game with a simple story and basic repetitive language elements. Preparation Either: Download a copy of Adam & Eve or use and Online electronic version of the Adam & Eve [...]