Tag Archives: writing

Disney Top Trumps

Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Speaking Language focus:  Comparatives and superlatives Game: Disney Top Trumps This is Disney’s online version of the popular Top Trumps game which is great fun for practicing comparatives and superlatives. Preparation Present  and practice comparative and superlative forms. Pre-play Learners draw a table in their notebook consisting of four columns.  They label [...]

Music Box Of Life

Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Writing Language focus:  There is / There are some/n’t any Game: Music Box of Life This is a nice spot the difference game.  Nice for two reasons.  One, that there is no time limit so learners have time to look, talk and write.  Two, that as you find the differences and [...]

Scan The Scale of The Universe

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  Question forms Game:  The Scale of The Universe This interactive guide allows you to zoom in from the edge of the known universe right down through to the smallest thing known (quantum foam) while looking at a few things along the way and in between. Preparation None.  Pre [...]

Dictionary with Deponia

Level: Intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Dictionary work Language focus:  Nouns and their definitions This game is set in the future fictional world of Deponia.  Visually it’s a joy to look at and because of the in-game audio (the characters talk) and subtitles as well as an extensive written walkthrough it lends itself very well for some [...]

Present Perfect Play

Level: Intermediate Location: Non-connected classroom Skills Focus: Writing Language focus:  Present Perfect This activity uses two screenshots as flashcards, which are taken from a game called ‘Hoppin at the Avocado Combos‘.  Students look at a screenshot taken at the beginning of the game and compare it to a screenshot taken at the end of the game and describe [...]

A Collaborative Written Walkthrough

Level: Upper Intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Peer Dictation Language focus:  Separable Phrasal Verbs Game: Droppy   This is a guided peer dictation using the game shown above.  There are actually 10 stages of this game (stage 1 is shown above) although I only generally go through the first four in class which takes about half an [...]

Dark Visions – A Gothic Horror Story

Level: Advanced/ Mature students Location: Computer Classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Writing Game: Dark Visions You arrive at a strange house with a mysterious doctor who introduces himself as James Thaxton Smith, an assistant to your uncle who is the doctor at this psychiatric hospital.  He sees you to the guest room where you are to stay but time [...]

The Rainy Day

Level: Intermediate Location: Connected Classroom/ computer room Language Focus: Error Correction Game:  The Rainy Day It’s not always a given that a good game with written text was written by a native English speaker.  For this reason you have to be prepared to identify and deal with language mistakes within a game.  This game is [...]

Top Ten Halloween Dress Up Games

Here’s a brief description of ten Halloween themed dress up/ monster creator games and a few suggestions on how to use them.  All these games were chosen to tie in with the Halloween theme of trick or treat and dressing up in costumes.  You can access them by either following the links or clicking on [...]

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 [...]