Level: Intermediate
Language Focus: Present Perfect simple /passive
Time: 30 – 40 minutes
Game:Droppy
Help Droppy to solve problems in 11 different situations and help him stay out of trouble.
Preparations
Download a single copy of the walkthrough for you to use in class and download a copy of the Droppy worksheet. Play the game yourself to get a feel for [...]
Level: Primary
Language Focus: Alphabet
Skills Focus: Pronunciation
Game: Alphattack
This game is used to practice and consolidate the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet. It can be played either in a connected classroom or a computer room.
Bombs drop from the sky and need to be stopped before they destroy the city. Destroy the bombs before they do [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One learner watches a video of the game being completed and relays the information to their partner who plays the game.
Level: Intermediate+
Topic: Kitchen vocabulary
Speaking Focus: Describing things in a kitchen
Time: 30 minutes
Game: The Great Kitchen Escape
The Great kitchen escape game is a great ‘ecape the room’ game which comes with a video walkthrough [...]
Level: Intermediate+
Topic: Describing pictures
Language Focus: Prepositions of place
Time: 20 – 30 minutes
Game: Cold window
Opening screenshot to Cold Window
Preparation
Cut up some pieces of recycled paper into strips. These will be used by your learners to write sentences on.
Playing
In a connected classroom, learners play in pairs or in small teams. Put the game on the board and [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Christmas vocabulary
Language Focus: First Conditional
Time: 30 minutes
Game: Christmas Escape
The Game
Explore the house and find the fourteen hidden presents to get a key which will let you escape through the front door. The object for your language learners is to use 1st conditional sentences to walk you through the game and finish [...]