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Tag Archives: video

Bow Street Runner – A murder mystery.

Level: Upper intermediate/ Advanced
Topic:  Murder Mystery
Language skill: Reading & listening
Game: Bow Street Runner
“This game is set in London’s Covent Gardens in the 1750s, and depicts a time when crime and vice in the city had hit such levels that the local magistrates began to introduce the first instances of physical policing of law and order. [...]

Total Eclipse – Team Edward or Team Jacob?

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 [...]

World Cup Rescue

Level: Intermediate+
Location: Computer room
Language focus: Gaming dictation
Skills Focus: Speaking/ listening
Game: World Cup Rescue
The World Cup has been stolen and you (Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo) have been chosen to go and get it back.

Preparation
Depending on how your computer room is set up you need to get at least two learners out of the class and [...]

Alan Wake – A Video worksheet

At the beginning of this review there is a warning about the video having a violence content so it is recommended you watch to assess whether this activity is appropriate for your learners.  There is a lot of shooting, scary voices and a dark foreboding atmosphere throughout.
Level: Upper intermediate /advanced
Location: Connected classroom
Skills Work: Listening
Video:  Alan [...]

English Attack – a new fun way of learning English

English Attack is a new way of learning English through videos, games and other online entertainment platforms. Aimed at the 15-35 year-olds and claimed by the founders to be “the world’s first 100% entertainment-focused online resource for improving English language skills”, it is now open for beta testing (you can request an account here) and [...]

Storytelling – How important is it in a videogame?

Here’s a video about whether it is important for games to have a good story

Suggestions on how to use it

Ask your learners to think about games they know and their stories – Are the stories important? Could they be better?
Get the learners to tell each other a story from a game to see how easy [...]

A split screen communication activity

One learner watches a video of the game being completed and relays the information to their partner who plays the game.
Level: Intermediate+
Topic: Kitchen vocabulary
Speaking Focus: Describing things in a kitchen
Time: 30 minutes
Game: The Great Kitchen Escape
The Great kitchen escape game is a great ‘ecape the room’ game which comes with a video walkthrough [...]