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Storytelling – How important is it in a videogame?

Here’s a video about whether it is important for games to have a good story Suggestions on how to use it Ask your learners to think about games they know and their stories – Are the stories important? Could they be better? Get the learners to tell each other a story from a game to [...]

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 [...]

How to Use ‘Escape the Room’ games

An Escape the Room game is a type of adventure game that lends itself well to the language classroom because they are very difficult to complete without help. The objective of such games is to (surprise! surprise!) escape from a room (or a series of rooms), and this is usually done by completing a number of puzzles.