A relay dictation or graded reading for primary learners.
Level: Primary
Location: Computer room
Topic: Nightmares
Language focus: Directions, prepositions & game vocabulary
Game: Victor’s nightmare
Victor suffers from nightmares and in order to get some restful night’s sleep he needs to learn how to face his fears and vanquish them.
Preparation
Download and a copy of Victor’s nightmare walkthrough. Either print a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lesser controlled computer room writing activity. This activity can be adapted to the level and grammar area of your choice.
Level: Intermediate & above
Location: Computer room
Topic: Writing direct speech in a cartoon
Language Focus: Direct speech, present tenses etc
Time: 30 minutes
Game: Zimmer Twins
Screenshot of Zimmer Twins game
Preparation
1 Play the game yourself and make a note [...]
Level: Intermediate
Location: Computer room
Skills focus: Reading
Game: Treasure of Big Totem
PREPARATION
Two possibilities:
1 CLASSROOM – Print off a copy of the story and read the tale in class. Learners predict the most important elements of the story needed to play the game and underline them. They then use dictionaries to check up any difficult vocabulary.
2 COMPUTER ROOM [...]
Level: Advanced / Proficiency
Location: Computer room / homework
Language skill: Reading
The Game: Avalon is a text based role playing fantasy adventure game based on Dungeons and dragons, the stories of Tolkien and the Ancient Greek myths. You read the story and make choices in the fantasy world as they are made available to you (e.g. how to [...]