Tag Archives: upperintermediate

Escape From Christmas

Level: Pre-Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Speaking Language focus: Prepositions of place, vocabulary in a house, imperatives (look, go, pick up etc) Game: Escape Pear Room The premise is that you get a little bit too drunk each Christmas and the family have decided they’ve had enough and locked you in the house.  It’s up to you to [...]

Tanooky Tracks – A Gaming Circuit

Level: Upper Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Reading Game: Tanooky Tracks A Tanooky is a playful but mischievous spirit that likes to possess objects that most resemble its unique personality the most.  In this game you have to find and collect the objects associated with each of the 12 Tanookies in order to find them.  Why?  Because they are getting [...]

Halloween Horror – Pirates of The Undead Sea

Level: Upper Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Listening Game: Pirates of the undead sea This game is not as gory and bloody as it gets by a long stretch but it is just about as far as we go here at Digital Play.  The story is of a zombie pirate who is trying to [...]

The First Hero

Level:  Intermediate+ Location:  Connected Classroom Skills Focus:  Writing Language Focus:  Narrative Tenses Game:  The First Hero A game set in the times of ancient greek with a nice shadow puppet look and feel to it. Preparation Either play the game using a walkthrough to familiarise yourself with the game or print a copy of the [...]

Quest For The Rest

Level:  Intermediate Location:  Computer Room Langauge: 1st conditional/ will Skills focus:  Writing Game:  Quest For The Rest If you’ve used Samorost 2 with a class then the graphics in this game will look familiar as both were made by Amanita designs.  In Quest For The rest you have to help a group of people solve puzzles and [...]

The Power of Research

Level:  Upper Intermediate Location:  Computer Room Langauge: Giving advice – 2nd conditional/ should Skills focus:  Reading/ Speaking Game:  The Power of Research Welcome to a game where your learners will get the chance to live a little of the hectic life of a hospital doctor.  Most of the language in this game is quite low [...]

A Choose Your Own Adventure

Level: Upper intermediate Location: Computer room Skills focus: reading and writing. Language Focus: 3rd Conditional Game: A Zombie Story   If you ever played any of the fighting fantasy choose your own adventure books (a single-player adventure game book) then you might like to introduce learners to the concept too.  If you are unfamiliar with them then playing [...]

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 [...]

Xtranormal Movie Maker

Level: All Location: Computer room Language Focus: Any Game: Xtranormal Xtranormal is a text to speech movie maker that’s free and easy to join.  It might be a bit heavy to run but it’s a definite hit with learners. On the right here you can see a screen shot of the movie maker editor. The [...]

Gaming Soundtracks

Level: Intermediate/ upper intermediate Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Writing Language Focus: Relative clauses This is a nice little activity to stimulate a little writing in class.  I have used it to practice relative clauses but there’s no reason that you can’t just forget a language focus and just get learners to write.  I’ve done [...]