Tag Archives: interactivereader

A Fun Adventure For Eyes And Ears

Stage 07 is a fun and engaging adventure game where you play the part of young woman called Ms Webb who is on an assignment for her job.  As you play the game you begin to understand that things are not as simple as they at first appear.  At the heart of the game there [...]

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 [...]

All About Alice – Chapter 1

We are pleased and honoured that a colleague of ours, Chris Roland, has written our second guest post, all about Inanimate Alice, an engaging digital fiction project for learners. What is Inanimate Alice? The best thing to do, in all honesty, is to go to the Inanimate Alice website yourself, load up one of the [...]

All About Alice – Chapter 2

Last week I told you about Inanimate Alice.  This week I’d like to tell you about how I’ve used IA in my classes. Can you give me an example of a specific activity you do with IA? Sure. So a clearly defined task, teacher monitoring and evaluation are paramount. With this in mind I divide [...]

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 [...]

Bow Street Runner – A murder mystery.

Level: Upper intermediate/ Advanced Topic:  Murder Mystery Language skill: Reading & listening Game: Bow Street Runner “This game is set in London’s Covent Gardens in the 1750s, and depicts a time when crime and vice in the city had hit such levels that the local magistrates began to introduce the first instances of physical policing [...]

Hetherdale

Level: Upper intermediate Topic:  Jungle adventure Language skill: Reading and online dictionary work Game: Hetherdale the game Hetherdale the walkthrough There is a mystery to solve and its your job as intrepid explorer Dr. Montrose to solve it.  Play the game as you read the story and find out the mystery surrounding the secret jungle [...]

Crime & Investigation – Topic Based Interactive Reader

A computer room reading activity for individual or pair work. Level: Upper Intermediate & above (adults) Topic: Crime (Solve a murder) Language Focus: Understanding Language in Context Time: Computer room + homework to finish (1 hour to complete) Game: Crime & Investigation Preparation A There is an in-game toolbar that you need to make learners [...]

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 [...]

Runescape – An interactive reader

The Game Runescape is a very popular online role playing game where players can interact with each other within a medieval style fantasy world.  It has a short tutorial which serves to walk new players through some of the simple every day in-world activities such as choosing what their character looks like (physical features and [...]