ESL School Places Writing Game 🏫

I have played this both in ES and JHS and all classes really like it! I usually ask my VP for the school's master key to take photos and I show them the chapter in the book. I've never had an issue with getting photos of the Principal's Office, but I've provided a long list of rooms you can change on the template just in case!

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🎒 Prep

1. Choose 18 rooms or locations around the school. (I will include an optional checklist PDF for you)

2. Take 3 photos per room:

   • Hint 1: Extreme close-up
   • Hint 2: Not-so-close photo
   • Reveal Slide: Wide angle photo of room

3. Insert your images on the PowerPoint slides as shown in the PREVIEW Classroom Hint Quiz photo.

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🕹️ How to Play

1. Break class into teams and hand out whiteboards.
2. Tell students they can use their books to check spelling!
3. A team picks a letter, which links to the Hint 1 slide for a room.
   • Hint 1: Extreme close-up photo
4. Press the spacebar to reveal Hint 2 and start a 1-minute timer.
   
5. Teams have 1 minute to write their guess on the whiteboard.
6. After 1 minute, have teams hold up their whiteboards.
7. Click to the next slide to reveal the room/floor number.
8. Award points and return to the selection slide for the next round!

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🏆 Points System

• Elementary (ES):

  • 1 point for Japanese name
  • 2 points for English name

• Junior High (JHS):

  • 1 point for English name
    
  • Bonus: 1 point for floor number
    

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📋 Rules Slides

I made 1 ES rules slide and 1 JHS rules slide. The only major difference is the allocation of points.
To show/hide the correct rules slide to students:

- In PowerPoint, click the “Slideshow” tab > “Unhide slide” to reveal the ES Rules slide.

This game is not new, and combines ideas from old ESL websites like Korshare and Waygook. If you are curious, google:
School Photo Guessing Game
Guess the Room: ESL School Edition
School Places Mystery Quiz
What Room is This? Writing Challenge
School Locations Quiz
School Writing Challenge for ESL
ESL Places and Rooms Game
School Vocabulary Guessing Quiz
Writing and Guessing: School Rooms Game
Room Riddles: School Edition
Mystery School Room Quiz
Find That Room! Photo Clues Game
School Explorer Writing Game
Room Detective: ESL Edition

Files:

Small files

Checklist School Places (for teacher) (A4).pdf (97.4 KB)

Medium files (requires an account to download) -

More information

PREVIEW Classroom Hint Quiz.png (1.51 MB)

Classroom Guessing Game.pptx (8.38 MB)