Tag Archives: ELT

Christmas Quiz Fun

Here’s a great Christmas quiz to let your learners play and see how much they know about Christmas. It’s timed, so you can see how long it takes them to get the answers right. You can find it here: http://www.sporcle.com/games/calvinbudnick/christmasknowledge The site has many other timed quizzes. Here are some more Christmas-themed ones: Guess this [...]

I’m Dreaming of a conditional Christmas

Level: Intermediate Topic: Christmas vocabulary Language Focus: First Conditional Time: 30 minutes Game: Christmas Escape The Game Explore the house and find the fourteen hidden presents to get a key which will let you escape through the front door.  The object for your language learners is to use 1st conditional sentences to walk you through [...]

Christmas ecard picture dictation

Level: Primary Topic: Picture dictation Listening focus: Describing a Christmas Ecard (prepositions of place) Time: 30 minutes Preparation: A copy of  the Ecard Wordsearch for each learner.  A single copy of the Ecard Picture Dictation or a screenshot of a finished ecard. Game: xmas ecard maker Screenshot of the finished picture dictation Key Language: Snowman, [...]

Brain Cell – Interactive Story for Upper-Intermediate EFL/ESL learners

Brain Cell (http://www.desq.co.uk/braincell/braincell.htm) is a short but engaging puzzle of a game with 3D graphics and sound. It’s a room escape game with a science-fiction atmosphere and has been made by DESQ, an organization devoted to the development of Web-based and digital learning projects. You can read more about Brain Cell here. It works well [...]

Junior’s Christmas – a fun Christmas activity for low levels

Level: Pre-intermediate Topic: Christmas Focus: Christmas vocabulary Time: 30 – 45 minutes Game: Junior’s Christmas Junior wants to get a present from Father Christmas but there are a few things getting in his way. screenshot of Juniors Christmas  Key Language: Carpet, cookie jar, key, hug, cupboard, knock, feather, wing, box, tail, elf, tickle, window,  bird [...]

Designing a Gaming shop

A speaking activity on the subject of gaming that requires no connectivity in the classroom. Level: Intermediate Topic: Designing the layout of a gaming shop Language Focus: Future clauses with if, when etc Time: 20 – 30 minutes Preparation Download a copy of the gaming shop worksheet and print off enough copies for each pair [...]

Get hip with Hapland – A Live Listening

Level: Intermediate Topic: Vocabulary within the game Hapland Listening Focus: Instructions & directions Time: 20 – 30 minutes Game: Hapland Screenshot of the game Hapland (what you see is what you get) Hapland is a point and click game which takes place over the space of one screen.  Basically, in the screenshot above you can see [...]

Tube Crisis – puzzle game for conditionals

Tube Crisis is a short point-and-click puzzle game that is good for stimulating conversation with (upper-intermediate + ) learners if you are lucky enough to teach in a connected classroom (i.e. one equipped with a computer and data projector and/or interactive whiteboard) Language: descriptions of people, relative clauses and the difference between first and second [...]

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #2 ‘Lil Poison’

The World’s youngest professional video gamer Manyparents complain that their children waste too much time playing video games and not enough time on their schoolwork.  Maybe it’s because they are worried that their children won’t study hard at school.  If they don’t get good exam results they won’t grow up and get a good job [...]

Dictionary work with online point-and-click game ‘Blue Beanie’

Level: Pre-intermediate Topic: Doing a crossword/ Using a dictionary. Focus: Vocabulary in an online game walkthrough. Time: 1 hour/ 1.5 hours Preparation: Download a copy of the walkthrough for yourself and a copy of the crossword and crossword clues for each pair of learners. Game: Blue Beanie A young ghost has his blue beanie hat [...]