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Tag Archives: advanced

Listening practice with BBC ‘Casualty’ game

Level:   Advanced +
Skills Focus:   Listening
Language Focus:   First Aid
Game:   Casualty Challenge
Help your learners practise their listening skills in the computer room with this BBC Skillswise words game based on the UK TV Programme “Casualty”.

Preparation
Make sure that there are enough computers and headphones for your learners and that the game is either ready for them to start [...]

Discussion Topics #3 – A New Life

Level: Advanced
Topic: Border Country

Speaking Focus: Expressing opinions

Time: 30 – 45 minutes
Game: Against all odds

Preparation
You also need to go through a few steps after entering the site before you can get to play the game. The steps are:
1) Click on Open in full screen.
2) Click on Play against all odds.
3) Choose your game characters [...]

Discussion Topic #2 – Border Country

Level: Advanced
Topic: Border Country

Speaking  Focus: Expressing opinions

Time: 30 – 45 minutes
Game: Against all odds

Preparation
You also need to go through a few steps after entering the site before you can get to play the game.  The steps are:
1) Click on Open in full screen.
2) Click on Play against all odds.
3) Choose your game characters identity.  i.e [...]

Discussion Topics #1 – War and Conflict

Level: Advanced
Topic: War & Conflict

Speaking  Focus: Expressing opinions

Time: 30 – 45 minutes
Game: Against all odds
Against All Odds is an online video game developed by UNHCR designed to teach players about the plight of refugees.  This first episode entitled ‘War and conflict’ looks at the problems faced by dissidents within a country where the military has [...]

Storytelling – How important is it in a videogame?

Here’s a video about whether it is important for games to have a good story

Suggestions on how to use it

Ask your learners to think about games they know and their stories – Are the stories important? Could they be better?
Get the learners to tell each other a story from a game to see how easy [...]

A game practising ’should’ – Tomb of the Mummy I

The Tomb of the Mummy I is a very difficult puzzle game. Because of its difficulty, it’s ideal to use it with an upper intermediate – advanced  class in a connected classroom (i.e. one with a computer & a data projector or IWB) and to use it to generate language used for hypothesis (should, conditionals, [...]

Christmas Quiz Fun

Here’s a great Christmas quiz to let your learners play and see how much they know about Christmas. It’s timed, so you can see how long it takes them to get the answers right.

You can find it here: http://www.sporcle.com/games/calvinbudnick/christmasknowledge
The site has many other timed quizzes. Here are some more Christmas-themed ones:

Guess this Christmas message
Reworded Christmas [...]

Brain Cell – Interactive Story for Upper-Intermediate EFL/ESL learners

Brain Cell (http://www.desq.co.uk/braincell/braincell.htm) is a short but engaging puzzle of a game with 3D graphics and sound. It’s a room escape game with a science-fiction atmosphere and has been made by DESQ, an organization devoted to the development of Web-based and digital learning projects. You can read more about Brain Cell here.

It works well as [...]

Why playing videogames better than reading books

Are books on the way out in education? Will their role be taken by educational games?
The Digital Educational Revolution
The explosion of technology that is taking place in schools has led to a number of ideas being put forward related to the death of the book in education. More and more, laptops are being introduced [...]