Tag Archives: reading

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 [...]

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

http://www.arcademaniacs.com/swf/whowantstobeamillionaire2.swf This is just a quick one – good for a filler or for telling students to do on their own at home. It’s an entertaining version of the popular TV show – the questions are, on the whole, relevant to English teaching, although some are US-culture specific Play Win A Million at Online Games [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Avalon – Online interactive reader

Level:  Advanced / Proficiency Location: Computer room / homework Language skill: Reading The Game:  Avalon is a text based role playing fantasy adventure game based on Dungeons and dragons, the stories of Tolkien and the Ancient Greek myths.  You read the story and make choices in the fantasy world as they are made available to you [...]

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, [...]

10 TEFL Activities for Samorost 2

Here’s a brief description of ten TEFL activities from the site 101 ways (and more) to use Samorost.  All these activities were chosen because they cover a range of levels, location (classroom, connected classroom, computer room and home), language and skills practice.  The links provided direct you to lesson plans, downloadable material and more. 1 [...]