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Tag Archives: primary

Dressing Up Game

Level: Beginner’s
Language: Have got . . . / is wearing . . .     Clothes and colours
Skills Focus: Writing
Location: Computer room
Summer is coming and Digital play is taking a break for the summer.  We’ll be back in September with a lot of new activities, articles and lessons.  Our last bog post here today [...]

Victor’s nightmare

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 [...]

Hero Machine – Relay Play for Primaries

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 [...]

ABC Arcade Fun

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 [...]

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, [...]

Junior’s Christmas – a fun Christmas activity for low levels

Level: Pre-intermediate
Topic: Christmas
Focus: Christmas vocabulary
Time: 30 – 45 minutes

Game: Junior’s Christmas
Junior wants to get a present from Father Christmas but there are a few things getting in his way.

screenshot of Juniors Christmas
 Key Language: Carpet, cookie jar, key, hug, cupboard, knock, feather, wing, box, tail, elf, tickle, window,  bird house, hammer, ribbon, scissors, shelf, [...]