Tag Archives: writing

Gap fill point-and-click game

This is a point and click game where you have to find words in order to fill the gaps in a letter. Level: Intermediate+ Location: Computer classroom Skills focus: Reading Game: The Big Escape Preparation Download a copy of The Big Escape Worksheet and print enough copies for each pair. Pre-play Hand out the worksheet [...]

Halloween dress up game

Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language Focus: Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes/ parts of the body Game: Halloween dressing up game Preparation 1.  Go to the site yourself and create a character.  Take a screenshot of your character and print off a copy. 2.  Write the character description out .  e.g. He is a [...]

Halloween spot the difference

Level: Beginners/ Primary Location: Connected Classroom Topic: Halloween Skills Focus: Speaking Game: The Halloween game Preparation Learners write the numbers 1 – 10 in their notebooks. Present the image above to the class.  It works better if you just present one but the activity still works if you go directly to the site and have both. Brainstorm [...]

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 [...]

Bonte Room Adjective Order

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Classroom then Computer room Skills Focus: Reading & Writing Language Focus: Adjective word order Game: Bonte Room This is a very short point and click game.  In the gap fill exercise some of the gaps can be filled by simply playing the game and copying them into the right place.  Some objects [...]

Total Eclipse – Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Watching/ Speaking Video: 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive If you teach teen girls and you haven’t heard of Twilight, no scratch that, if you have been living on planet Earth and you haven’t heard of Twilight then get with it.  This teen phenomenon that has swept the world [...]

A Game of Geography

This game can be played at a pre-intermediate level learning countries and nationalities or with a higher level wishing to consolidate and extend their awareness of countries and nationalities vocabulary. Level: Pre-intermediate Location: Connected classroom Skills focus: Speaking & pronunciation Language Focus: Countries and nationalities Game:  Geography game Preparation Hangman for ‘countries/ and/ states’. Brainstorm [...]

Hero Machine – Relay Play for Primaries

Learners reproduce the physical appearance of a superhero from reading and relaying a written description. Level: Primary Location: Computer room Language focus:  Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes vocabulary/ physical descriptions/ parts of the body Game: Hero machine Preparation Either play with heromachine  yourself and both write a physical description of the hero you produce [...]

Global Warming Simulation

Lesser controlled speaking activity. Level: Advanced Location: Computer room Topic: Global Warming Language Focus: Modals of obligation Game: Global Warming Interactive “CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions. The game is driven by a systems dynamics model and is presented [...]

An Educational Game – Disaster Watch

Level: Intermediate + Location: Computer room Topic: Food shortage, flood and earthquake disasters Language focus: Writing Game: Disaster watch An Educational game commissioned by Christian Aid to raise awareness of the threat of Food shortages, flood and earthquakes in a Central American country. Pre-Play I started this activity in a connected classroom by dictating these [...]