Below is a list of ten football games you can ask learners who are getting ready to watch the world cup. All these games were chosen because some of your learners may well be playing them at home or at friends. As well as being popular, engaging and fun to play they also offer great [...]
Below is a list of ten standard questions you can ask learners who are on facebook followed by a list of ten facebook app game logos and more specific questions. All these games were chosen because some of your learners may be playing them as well as being easily accessible, engaging and fun for [...]
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 and take a [...]
Connected classroom room reading activity.
Level: Intermediate.
Location: Connected classroom
Skills Focus: Reading
Game: Mcdonald’s video game
Calling itself a digital parody of Mcdonald’s, this game takes a very critical look at the process behind the fast food company. If you’ve read or seen ’supersize me’ or ‘fast food nation’ then you should play this.
Preparation
Download a copy of the Mcdonald’s [...]
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 in a user friendly interface intended [...]
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 four questions:
What’s his name?
Where does he live?
What [...]
Level: Intermediate+
Location: Computer room
Skills Focus: Live listening
Language Focus: It’s something you use to + verb / for + gerund
Game: Mystery of Time and Space (MOTAS)
This game was probably one of the first point-and-click games I used with a class and many consider it a classic ‘escape the room game’. It has got over a hundred [...]
Here’s a brief description of ten online videos for teachers of foreign languages to watch. All these videos were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and informative to teachers of a foreign language.
1 The Sims teach German
The sims is one of the most commercially successful PC games, notable because of its popularity with female [...]