Tag Archives: reading

Top Ten Guinness Book of Gaming Records

Here’s a list of World records from the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s edition.  Can you identify which numbers below go in the spaces for each record? 376          1 million       24.84 million      2,468        214       156        379,552,748   [...]

The Impossible Quiz Book

A fun channel 4 commissioned quiz game that has a lot to do with play on words than word play.  Its surprising how low a level you can do this with as the quiz tests their passive knowledge of the language.  However, the language is a high level and if you don’t think fart, poo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Scooby Doo and the Temple of Lost Souls

Play the game An engaging game with English audio introduction, middle section and ending. The game is challenging enough for the students to want help (in English) to finish it, therefore lending itself to be used as a listening activity during gameplay. Alternatively, you could do something with the walkthrough to turn it into a [...]

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 [...]