Level: Beginner’s
Language: Have got . . . / is wearing . . . Clothes and colours
Skills Focus: Writing
Location: Computer room
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Level: Upper intermediate
Topic: Jungle adventure
Language skill: Reading and online dictionary work
Game: Hetherdale the game Hetherdale the walkthrough
There is a mystery to solve and its your job as intrepid explorer Dr. Montrose to solve it. Play the game as you read the story and find out the mystery surrounding the secret jungle city of Hetherdale.
Preparation
If you [...]
Here’s a brief description of ten online articles about how video games have been seen to successfully teach or educate for real life skills.
1 Computer games make maths fun in school.
An article from the online UK Guardian newsgroup about how a school in nottinghamshire is developing lesson plans and activities for the wii sport. [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a brief description of ten games with strong social awareness and education in world issues that require very little preparation and 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 Against all odds
A game that aims to educate gamers about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Below is a list of ten football games you can ask learners who are getting ready to watch the world cup. All these games were chosen because some of your learners may well be playing them at home or at friends. As well as being popular, engaging and fun to play they also offer great [...]
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 [...]