Tag Archives: walkthrough

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 [...]

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 [...]

Escape the (Plush) Room

Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language Focus: Receptive – There is/ are, prepositions of place.  Productive – Short answers (Yes, I can/have etc) Game: Escape the Plush room Situation My class was pretty proficient with most of language structures I used within the live listening dictation I scripted for this activity (including prepositions of place, [...]

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 [...]

10 Online Games with Walkthroughs

Here’s a brief description of ten online games that have walkthroughs.  What is a walkthrough?  Text written by a gamer to help another gamer complete the game successfully.  All these games and walthroughs were chosen because they have proved popular with language learners, use language that is not too complicated or dense and are not [...]

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 [...]

A Downloadable Game – Nearly Departed

Sometimes access to the internet in a classroom or computer room may not always be reliable or even available. Here is a very visual and humorous point and click adventure game that you can download and play on a computer without an internet connection. Gameplay: You wake up to discover you are a zombie with [...]

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 [...]