Tag Archives: computer room

Gamify your classroom with Chore Wars

Gamification One definition of gamification is the use of features usually found in games in areas of life which are usually game free. Only time will tell if this buzzword becomes the next big thing as some people are predicting, but meanwhile, sites such as Chore Wars can help you make a game of some [...]

Global Warming Simulation

Lesser controlled speaking activity. Level: Advanced Location: Computer room Topic: Global Warming Language Focus: Modals of obligation Game: Global Warming Interactive “CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions. The game is driven by a systems dynamics model and is presented [...]

An Educational Game – Disaster Watch

Level: Intermediate + Location: Computer room Topic: Food shortage, flood and earthquake disasters Language focus: Writing Game: Disaster watch An Educational game commissioned by Christian Aid to raise awareness of the threat of Food shortages, flood and earthquakes in a Central American country. Pre-Play I started this activity in a connected classroom by dictating these [...]

Mystery Of Time And Place (MOTAS)

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Live listening Language Focus: It’s something you use to + verb / for + gerund Game: Mystery of Time and Space (MOTAS) This game was probably one of the first point-and-click games I used with a class and many consider it a classic ‘escape the room game’.  It [...]

Anika’s Annotated Odyssey

This game walkthrough is annotated with links from difficult words to a page with images of the object. Level: Intermediate & above Location: Computer room Topic: Reading and dictionary work Language Focus: Non defining relative clauses Game: Anika’s Odyssey This is a fun walkthrough reading activity for the computer room followed by a writing activity [...]

Tale of Big Totem Treasure

Level: Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills focus: Reading Game: Treasure of Big Totem PREPARATION Two possibilities: 1 CLASSROOM – Print off a copy of the story and read the tale in class.  Learners predict the most important elements of the story needed to play the game and underline them.  They then use dictionaries to check [...]

Avalon – Online interactive reader

Level:  Advanced / Proficiency Location: Computer room / homework Language skill: Reading The Game:  Avalon is a text based role playing fantasy adventure game based on Dungeons and dragons, the stories of Tolkien and the Ancient Greek myths.  You read the story and make choices in the fantasy world as they are made available to you [...]

A Game With Teen Appeal

Level: Intermediate Location: Computer room Topic: Prepositions, describing things in a room Skills Focus: Live Listening Game: Obama Guantanamo Escape THE GAME Teenagers sometimes like to play games that have a slight rebellious nature and that pokes fun at authority figures.  The game referrences a few iconic film characters including (in order of appearance) Rambo, [...]

10 TEFL Activities for Samorost 2

Here’s a brief description of ten TEFL activities from the site 101 ways (and more) to use Samorost.  All these activities were chosen because they cover a range of levels, location (classroom, connected classroom, computer room and home), language and skills practice.  The links provided direct you to lesson plans, downloadable material and more. 1 [...]

101 TEFL Activities in 1 Online Game

“How many different activities can you do with a single free online game?” The answer to that could be hundreds and to prove it the site below has come up with over a hundred and one TEFL activities with the game Samorost 2.  Is there a guinness book of records entry for this?  Maybe not [...]