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Tag Archives: connectedclassroom

Total Eclipse – Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Level: Intermediate+
Location: Connected classroom
Skills Focus: Reading/ Watching/ Speaking
Video: 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive
If you teach teen girls and you haven’t heard of Twilight, no scratch that, if you have been living on planet Earth and you haven’t heard of Twilight then get with it.  This teen phenomenon that has swept the world is due to release [...]

A Game of Geography

This game can be played at a pre-intermediate level learning countries and nationalities or with a higher level wishing to consolidate and extend their awareness of countries and nationalities vocabulary.
Level: Pre-intermediate
Location: Connected classroom
Skills focus: Speaking & pronunciation
Language Focus: Countries and nationalities
Game:  Geography game

Preparation

Hangman for ‘countries/ and/ states’.
Brainstorm a few and elicit the name of a [...]

Mcdonald’s Parody Game

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 [...]

Global Warming Simulation

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 [...]

State of Debate

Level: Upper Intermediate
Skills focus: Listening & Reading
Location: Connected classroom/ computer room
Language Focus: Modals of Obligation
Game: State of Debate
“It’s the year 2020 and Just-Co have banned hoodies, and you’ve just been spotted wearing one. Can you talk your way out of trouble using your English Language skills?”
In this game you are spotted by a regulator [...]

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

http://www.arcademaniacs.com/swf/whowantstobeamillionaire2.swf
This is just a quick one – good for a filler or for telling students to do on their own at home.
It’s an entertaining version of the popular TV show – the questions are, on the whole, relevant to English teaching, although some are US-culture specific

Play Win A Million at Online Games HQ
Or download a [...]

Mystery Of Time And Place (MOTAS)

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 [...]

3rd World Farmer Note Taking Activity

Level: Upper-Intermediate
Location: Connected classroom
Skills focus: Note Taking
Game: 3rd World Farmer

SCREENSHOT
Preparation
Download a copy of the 3rd World Farmer Worksheet (which contains learner worksheet and teachers’ notes).
Play
Hand out a copy of the student worksheetUse the teacher’s notes to play the game.  The interesting thing about this game is that is purposely designed to be difficult to win [...]

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 [...]