Tag Archives: walkthrough

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 [...]

Air Pressure

This is a great game for class discussion.  The game is about the relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend aimed very much at teenagers. In the game you choose the best course of action for the boyfriend to take to reach the best ending to the game. Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Speaking [...]

Space Quest Reader

Level: Pre-intermediate+ Location: Computer room Skills Focus: (Relay) Reading Language Focus: Directions & Prepositions of place Game: Space Quest This is a short and simple sci-fi point and click game. Preparation Download a copy of the Space Quest Walkthrough and make a single copy to put on the wall of the computer room. Pre-play Put [...]

A Pre-intermediate Reading activity

A cute point and click game with a graded reader for pre-intermediate learners. Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Computer room Skills focus: Reading Game: Bamba Snack Quest A squirrel steals your crisps.  Bamba decides to go and get his crisps back but the ending might be a little different to what your learners predict . . . [...]

Hetherdale

Level: Upper intermediate Topic:  Jungle adventure Language skill: Reading and online dictionary work Game: Hetherdale the game Hetherdale the walkthrough There is a mystery to solve and its your job as intrepid explorer Dr. Montrose to solve it.  Play the game as you read the story and find out the mystery surrounding the secret jungle [...]

World Cup Rescue

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Computer room Language focus: Gaming dictation Skills Focus: Speaking/ listening Game: World Cup Rescue The World Cup has been stolen and you (Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo) have been chosen to go and get it back. Preparation Depending on how your computer room is set up you need to get at least [...]

Victor’s nightmare

A relay dictation or graded reading for primary learners. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Topic: Nightmares Language focus: Directions, prepositions & game vocabulary Game: Victor’s nightmare Victor suffers from nightmares and in order to get some restful night’s sleep he needs to learn how to face his fears and vanquish them. Preparation Download and a [...]

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 [...]

Room Fake

Room Fake is another ‘Escape from the Room’ puzzle game that is almost impossible to do without the walkthrough, which I have added below. This works well as a live listening activity, but I recommend playing it first as a race to see who finishes first in the computer room. With the students in pairs, [...]