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Tag Archives: computerroom

A Game With Teen Appeal

Level: Intermediate
Location: Computer room
Topic: Prepositions, describing things in a room
Skills Focus: Live Listening
Game: Obama Guantanamo Escape

THE GAME
Teenagers sometimes like to play games that have a slight rebellious nature and that pokes fun at authority figures.  The game referrences a few iconic film characters including (in order of appearance) Rambo, Jack Sparrow, Yoda, Spiderman and [...]

10 TEFL Activities for Samorost 2

Here’s a brief description of ten TEFL activities from the site 101 ways (and more) to use Samorost.  All these activities were chosen because they cover a range of levels, location (classroom, connected classroom, computer room and home), language and skills practice.  The links provided direct you to lesson plans, downloadable material and more.
1  Spot [...]

101 TEFL Activities in 1 Online Game

“How many different activities can you do with a single free online game?”
The answer to that could be hundreds and to prove it the site below has come up with over a hundred and one TEFL activities with the game Samorost 2.  Is there a guinness book of records entry for this?  Maybe not but [...]

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 [...]

An annotated game for reading and playing

Level: Pre-intermediate
Time: 30 minutes

Preparation: Just before the class goes into the computer room open up two internet explorer windows.  On one window get the game ‘Hamster rescue’ ready so it’s ready to start.  In the other window open up a copy of the annotated walkthrough. Be prepared to show the class the opening screenshot of [...]

Which Adjective are you?

Here’s a brief description of ten fun personality tests for your English Language Learners. They require very little preparation and I’ve included some tips on how to use them. All these games were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and fun for English Language Learners. Learners answer the test tasks to find out [...]

Add a little colour to class with Grafitti Creator

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Here’s a brief description of ten uses of an online grafitti creator for your English Language Learners.  They require very little preparation and I’ve included some tips on how to use them.  All these games were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and fun for English Language Learners.
1) Project titles – [...]

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 [...]

Christmas ecard picture dictation

Level: Primary
Topic: Picture dictation
Listening focus: Describing a Christmas Ecard (prepositions of place)
Time: 30 minutes
Preparation: A copy of  the Ecard Wordsearch for each learner.  A single copy of the Ecard Picture Dictation or a screenshot of a finished ecard.
Game: xmas ecard maker
Screenshot of the finished picture dictation
Key Language: Snowman, path, buttons, hat, snow, roof, window, mask, [...]

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 [...]