Tag Archives: connectedclassroom

Halloween spot the difference

Level: Beginners/ Primary Location: Connected Classroom Topic: Halloween Skills Focus: Speaking Game: The Halloween game Preparation Learners write the numbers 1 – 10 in their notebooks. Present the image above to the class.  It works better if you just present one but the activity still works if you go directly to the site and have both. Brainstorm [...]

Air Pressure

This is a great game for class discussion.  The game is about the relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend aimed very much at teenagers. In the game you choose the best course of action for the boyfriend to take to reach the best ending to the game. Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Speaking [...]

The Impossible Quiz Book

A fun channel 4 commissioned quiz game that has a lot to do with play on words than word play.  Its surprising how low a level you can do this with as the quiz tests their passive knowledge of the language.  However, the language is a high level and if you don’t think fart, poo [...]

Total Eclipse – Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Watching/ Speaking Video: 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive If you teach teen girls and you haven’t heard of Twilight, no scratch that, if you have been living on planet Earth and you haven’t heard of Twilight then get with it.  This teen phenomenon that has swept the world [...]

A Game of Geography

This game can be played at a pre-intermediate level learning countries and nationalities or with a higher level wishing to consolidate and extend their awareness of countries and nationalities vocabulary. Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Speaking & pronunciation Language Focus: Countries and nationalities Game:  Geography game Preparation Hangman for ‘countries/ and/ states’. Brainstorm [...]

Mcdonald’s Parody Game

Connected classroom room reading activity. Level: Intermediate. Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading Game: Mcdonald’s video game Calling itself a digital parody of Mcdonald’s, this game takes a very critical look at the process behind the fast food company.  If you’ve read or seen ‘supersize me’ or ‘fast food nation’ then you should play this. [...]

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 [...]

State of Debate

Level: Upper Intermediate Skills focus: Listening & Reading Location: Connected classroom/ computer room Language Focus: Modals of Obligation Game: State of Debate “It’s the year 2020 and Just-Co have banned hoodies, and you’ve just been spotted wearing one. Can you talk your way out of trouble using your English Language skills?” In this game you [...]

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

http://www.arcademaniacs.com/swf/whowantstobeamillionaire2.swf This is just a quick one – good for a filler or for telling students to do on their own at home. It’s an entertaining version of the popular TV show – the questions are, on the whole, relevant to English teaching, although some are US-culture specific Play Win A Million at Online Games [...]

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 [...]