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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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: Upper-Intermediate
Location: Connected classroom
Skills focus: Note Taking
Game: 3rd World Farmer
SCREENSHOT
Preparation
Download a copy of the 3rd World Farmer Worksheet (which contains learner worksheet and teachers’ notes).
Play
Hand out a copy of the student worksheetUse the teacher’s notes to play the game. The interesting thing about this game is that is purposely designed to be difficult to win [...]
Lesser controlled computer room writing activity. This activity can be adapted to the level and grammar area of your choice.
Level: Intermediate & above
Location: Computer room
Topic: Writing direct speech in a cartoon
Language Focus: Direct speech, present tenses etc
Time: 30 minutes
Game: Zimmer Twins
Screenshot of Zimmer Twins game
Preparation
1 Play the game yourself and make a note [...]
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 [...]