Tag Archives: upperintermediate

A Fun Adventure For Eyes And Ears

Stage 07 is a fun and engaging adventure game where you play the part of young woman called Ms Webb who is on an assignment for her job.  As you play the game you begin to understand that things are not as simple as they at first appear.  At the heart of the game there [...]

Game Tester Job

Learners watch a short video on game testers and then write a job application to be a game tester. Level: Upper intermediate Location: Connected classroom/ Home Language focus:  Vocabulary of games / Formal language in an application letter Skills Practice: Listening / Reading / Writing Maybe you have looked at formal language for writing a [...]

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 [...]

Princess Natasha – An Action Reader

This game actually has a built-in walkthrough and lots of text to challenge your learners. There are also some nice reading puzzles too.  The content and look of the game also makes it very child friendly.  I also like this because the main character in this game is a James Bond like character but is [...]

Playing with words

Play Twist Our Words This is a fun activity to do in the computer room.  Check out one we made here – Digital Play Twist.  This ‘digital toy’ is on the British Tv Channel 4 site.  You click on the words and make sentences (the sentence you are making appears in the bottom left hand [...]

Relative Clauses with Grow Cube

You can use this activity to practice both relative clauses and other grammatical areas.  The relative clauses task comes in later in this activity and targets non-defining relative clauses. Level: Upper-Intermediate Location: Connected classroom with IWB Language focus: Defining and non-defining relative clauses Game: Eyemaze GROW games Top left to right – Grow ver .3, [...]

Stop disasters – Start taking note!

A computer room note taking activity leading to a writing for homework. Level: Upper-Intermediate+ Location: Computer room Skills focus: Note Taking Game: Stop Disasters A disaster simulation game in which you choose a disaster scenario (tsunami, hurricane, wildfire, earthquake and flood) and “try to build upon an established community; providing defences and upgraded housing to [...]

Terror for Teens

 Level: Upper Intermediate Location: Computer room Skills Focus: Reading Game: The Cave A scary point and click game for a more mature audience in a run up to Halloween.  Based on a horror film of the same name.  Also has extra resonance with recent events in Chile with the 33 miners. Preparation Write ‘The [...]

I Remain – A Zombie story

An online game that is played while reading the story of the game as a narrative story is a great way to get your learners reading.  Playing the game becomes a comprehension check. Level: Upper intermediate+ Location: Computer room Activity: Reading Language: Narrative tenses & narrative devices. Game: I remain Pre-Play Do hangman for the [...]

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 [...]