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 [...]
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 [...]
This game walkthrough is annotated with links from difficult words to a page with images of the object.
Level: Intermediate & above
Location: Computer room
Topic: Reading and dictionary work
Language Focus: Non defining relative clauses
Game: Anika’s Odyssey
This is a fun walkthrough reading activity for the computer room followed by a writing activity using non defining relative clauses. You [...]
A speaking activity on the subject of gaming that can be played in a classroom or a computer room.
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Designing the layout of the packaging of a video game
Language Focus: Present simple, adjectives, intensifyers etc
Time: 1 hour
Preparation
1 In a previous class ask your learners to bring in game catalogues/ pictures or reviews of [...]
A speaking activity on the subject of gaming that requires no connectivity in the classroom.
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Designing the layout of a gaming shop
Language Focus: Future clauses with if, when etc
Time: 20 – 30 minutes
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Preparation
Download a copy of the gaming shop worksheet and print off enough copies for each pair of learners.
Playing
1) Don’t hand out the [...]
The World’s youngest professional video gamer
Manyparents complain that their children waste too much time playing video games and not enough time on their schoolwork. Maybe it’s because they are worried that their children won’t study hard at school. If they don’t get good exam results they won’t grow up and get a good job when [...]