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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This game walkthrough is annotated with links from difficult words to a page with images of the object.
Level: Intermediate & above
Location: Computer room
Topic: Reading and dictionary work
Language Focus: Non defining relative clauses
Game: Anika’s Odyssey
This is a fun walkthrough reading activity for the computer room followed by a writing activity using non defining relative clauses. You [...]
Level: Intermediate
Location: Computer room
Skills focus: Reading
Game: Treasure of Big Totem
PREPARATION
Two possibilities:
1 CLASSROOM – Print off a copy of the story and read the tale in class. Learners predict the most important elements of the story needed to play the game and underline them. They then use dictionaries to check up any difficult vocabulary.
2 COMPUTER ROOM [...]
Level: Advanced / Proficiency
Location: Computer room / homework
Language skill: Reading
The Game: Avalon is a text based role playing fantasy adventure game based on Dungeons and dragons, the stories of Tolkien and the Ancient Greek myths. You read the story and make choices in the fantasy world as they are made available to you (e.g. how to [...]