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
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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 [...]
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
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Room Fake is another ‘Escape from the Room’ puzzle game that is almost impossible to do without the walkthrough, which I have added below.
This works well as a live listening activity, but I recommend playing it first as a race to see who finishes first in the computer room. With the students in pairs, give [...]
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 [...]
Can you read the square barcode above? Chances are you can if you have a phone with a camera and a barcode reader. If not, then it’s unlikely unless you take your laptop or a hard copy down to the local supermarket and persuade the person sitting at the checkout to scan it for you. [...]