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The Magician

Level: Upper intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Language Focus: going to, modals of deduction (present & past). Game: The Magician A nice little game with plenty of language opportunities.  First you see the magician’s stage with the trick ready to go.  You can then watch the trick performed.  You then get the chance to see how the [...]

Playing At Pirates With ‘The Ballad of Kinetto’

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean‘ has proved such a successful movie franchise that we’ve decided to get in on the act at Digital Play.  The Ballad of Kinetto is a series of online pirate adventure games involving strong narrative features, some great puzzles and its own pirate heroes – Kinetto and Amber.  ‘The Pirates of [...]

It’s not a walkthrough – it’s a marathon!

Level: Advanced Topic: Discussing a sequence of events Language Focus: Linkers and sequencers, (first of all, then, after that, finally, etc) Location: Classroom/ Computer room Game: War Bears: Mission 1 I like this game because well, it’s fun first and foremost.  It’s also very easy to keep an eye on learner’s progress in the game [...]

Learning Quest

Learners Listen to Audio plays, solve clues collaboratively while exploring a virtual world Level: Intermediate or Advanced Location: Connected classroom/ Home Skills Practice: Speaking/ Listening Game: Robin Hood Learning Quest It’s not often you get a fun game which is aimed at more than one Language learning level but this one does.  You first join Second [...]

Question forms with ‘Ask Peter’

Learners write questions for the online Tarot reader ‘Ask Peter’ to answer. Level: Pre-intermediate + Location: Connected classroom Language focus:  Wh- (QASI) forms Game: Peter Answers Preparation Ask learners to write down three questions.  there are three rules: The answers have to be the names of people in the room. They should try and use [...]

Gaming Statistics III

Level: Intermediate + Language: Numbers and statistics Skills Focus: Scan Reading / speaking Location: Computer room Group A Group B Preparation Download the ‘Gaming Statistics worksheets‘ and make enough copies for each learner in your class. Research & Record Divide learners into two separate groups – A & B. Hand out the worksheets and get [...]

Gaming against bullying

Level: Upper Intermediate + Language: Modals of probability Skills Focus: Speaking Location: Connected classroom Game: Dixie the Nerd I used this game as a platform to discuss issues connected with bullying at school Preparation First I printed off a single copy of the Dixie the Nerd walkthrough for me to use.  I also played the [...]

Desert Island Misc.

Level: Pre – intermediate Language: Vocabulary – action verb + noun Skills Focus: Dictionary work / Speaking Location: Connected Classroom Game: Dream Machine Nice little one screen game activity. Preparation Play the game and familiarise yourself with how to complete it using the Dream machine walkthrough. Pre-play task 1. Dictate the following text in chunks using [...]

Game Talk : Angry Birds

Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s a simple conversation activity/warmer that might be of interest to you when you go back to teaching after the winter break. Talking about games with learners can be a very useful activity, especially if you choose a game that everyone has heard of or played. So, which one to choose? [...]

Solving A Heist

Lesser controlled speaking activity and past tense writing. Level: Intermediate Location: Classroom Skills Focus: Speaking / writing about a robbery Language Focus: Past simple, sequencers Game: Heist This online game involves passing through four rooms solving puzzles so you can finally steal secret plans.  In this classroom activity you can download the floor plan of [...]