Tag Archives: connectedclassroom

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 [...]

Stars for good behaviour

Level: Kids of all levels Location: Connected classroom Aim: Better classroom management Game: Flight My star chart for good behaviour was looking a bit dog-eared so I decided to look for some Digital Play that would replace it and I found this game: What is the game? It’s quite simple really.  You pick up the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learning Quest

Learners Listen to Audio plays, solve clues collaboratively while exploring a virtual world Level: Intermediate or Advanced Location: Connected classroom/ Home Skills Practice: Speaking/ Listening Game: Robin Hood Learning Quest It’s not often you get a fun game which is aimed at more than one Language learning level but this one does.  You first join Second [...]

Question forms with ‘Ask Peter’

Learners write questions for the online Tarot reader ‘Ask Peter’ to answer. Level: Pre-intermediate + Location: Connected classroom Language focus:  Wh- (QASI) forms Game: Peter Answers Preparation Ask learners to write down three questions.  there are three rules: The answers have to be the names of people in the room. They should try and use [...]

Gaming against bullying

Level: Upper Intermediate + Language: Modals of probability Skills Focus: Speaking Location: Connected classroom Game: Dixie the Nerd I used this game as a platform to discuss issues connected with bullying at school Preparation First I printed off a single copy of the Dixie the Nerd walkthrough for me to use.  I also played the [...]

Desert Island Misc.

Level: Pre – intermediate Language: Vocabulary – action verb + noun Skills Focus: Dictionary work / Speaking Location: Connected Classroom Game: Dream Machine Nice little one screen game activity. Preparation Play the game and familiarise yourself with how to complete it using the Dream machine walkthrough. Pre-play task 1. Dictate the following text in chunks using [...]

10 Online Games with Walkthroughs

Here’s a brief description of ten online games that have walkthroughs.  What is a walkthrough?  Text written by a gamer to help another gamer complete the game successfully.  All these games and walthroughs were chosen because they have proved popular with language learners, use language that is not too complicated or dense and are not [...]