Tag Archives: computerroom

MP for a Week

Level: Advanced Location: Computerroom Language skills: Reading Topic: The British electoral process Game: MP for a Week   This is a great activity for an advanced group of English language learners with not only lots of reading practice but also the opportunity to learn a little about the political process that a British MP has to [...]

Xtranormal Movie Maker

Level: All Location: Computer room Language Focus: Any Game: Xtranormal Xtranormal is a text to speech movie maker that’s free and easy to join.  It might be a bit heavy to run but it’s a definite hit with learners. On the right here you can see a screen shot of the movie maker editor. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Another Interactive Text Adventure : Spent

As Chris Roland showed us with Inanimate Alice (Part I & Part II), there is a lot of scope for language learning and teaching in Interactive fiction. Spent is a very different type of text adventure. It’s not interactive fiction – firstly, because it deals with a very serious subject : poverty. It is also [...]

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 [...]

Gaming Statistics III

Level: Intermediate + Language: Numbers and statistics Skills Focus: Scan Reading / speaking Location: Computer room Group A Group B Preparation Download the ‘Gaming Statistics worksheets‘ and make enough copies for each learner in your class. Research & Record Divide learners into two separate groups – A & B. Hand out the worksheets and get [...]

Blockbusters

Level: Advanced Location: Computer room Topic: Revision & test of course book vocabulary. Language focus: Reading Game:  Blockbusters How to play Your learner plays the single red team against the computer (the two blue guys).  The aim of the game is to make a white line across the board from top to bottom (or the [...]