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 standard questions you can ask learners who are on facebook followed by a list of ten facebook app game logos and more specific questions. All these games were chosen because some of your learners may be playing them as well as being easily accessible, engaging and fun for [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
A speaking activity on the subject of gaming that can be played in a classroom or a computer room.
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Designing the layout of the packaging of a video game
Language Focus: Present simple, adjectives, intensifyers etc
Time: 1 hour
Preparation
1 In a previous class ask your learners to bring in game catalogues/ pictures or reviews of [...]