Tag Archives: ESL

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 [...]

10 Educational Games

Here’s a brief description of ten games with strong social awareness and education in world issues that require very little preparation and some tips on how to use them.  All these games were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and fun for English Language Learners. 1 Against all odds A game that aims to educate [...]

Victor’s nightmare

A relay dictation or graded reading for primary learners. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Topic: Nightmares Language focus: Directions, prepositions & game vocabulary Game: Victor’s nightmare Victor suffers from nightmares and in order to get some restful night’s sleep he needs to learn how to face his fears and vanquish them. Preparation Download and a [...]

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 [...]

Top Ten football games

Below is a list of ten football games you can ask learners who are getting ready to watch the world cup.  All these games were chosen because some of your learners may well be playing them at home or at friends. As well as being popular, engaging and fun to play they also offer great [...]

Hero Machine – Relay Play for Primaries

Learners reproduce the physical appearance of a superhero from reading and relaying a written description. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language focus:  Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes vocabulary/ physical descriptions/ parts of the body Game: Hero machine Preparation Either play with heromachine  yourself and both write a physical description of the hero you produce [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]