Tag Archives: intermediate

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 [...]

World Cup Rescue

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Computer room Language focus: Gaming dictation Skills Focus: Speaking/ listening Game: World Cup Rescue The World Cup has been stolen and you (Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo) have been chosen to go and get it back. Preparation Depending on how your computer room is set up you need to get at least [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anika’s Annotated Odyssey

This game walkthrough is annotated with links from difficult words to a page with images of the object. Level: Intermediate & above Location: Computer room Topic: Reading and dictionary work Language Focus: Non defining relative clauses Game: Anika’s Odyssey This is a fun walkthrough reading activity for the computer room followed by a writing activity [...]

Cartoon Crazy Zimmer Twins

Lesser controlled computer room writing activity.  This activity can be adapted to the level and grammar area of your choice. Level: Intermediate & above Location: Computer room Topic: Writing direct speech in a cartoon Language Focus: Direct speech, present tenses etc Time: 30 minutes Game: Zimmer Twins Screenshot of Zimmer Twins game Preparation 1 Play [...]

Tale of Big Totem Treasure

Level: Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills focus: Reading Game: Treasure of Big Totem PREPARATION Two possibilities: 1 CLASSROOM – Print off a copy of the story and read the tale in class.  Learners predict the most important elements of the story needed to play the game and underline them.  They then use dictionaries to check [...]

A Game With Teen Appeal

Level: Intermediate Location: Computer room Topic: Prepositions, describing things in a room Skills Focus: Live Listening Game: Obama Guantanamo Escape THE GAME Teenagers sometimes like to play games that have a slight rebellious nature and that pokes fun at authority figures.  The game referrences a few iconic film characters including (in order of appearance) Rambo, [...]