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.

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Google Slides Or PowerPoint

• For those who don't have PowerPoint on their computers but have access to Google at school.:

I have been trying to learn to make my PowerPoint Templates on Google Slides to be accessible by more teachers who might not have PPTX at school. I am very new to this;
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N888EIcVlYXm6y2FJ_0XqzN2d61Wd8k8iJGC0vteeOU/edit?usp=sharing

Open the link > File > Make a copy > Entire Presentation

This version is a simple click-through. It doesn't have the automatic 1 minute timers or the clickable letter-magnets. If you want those features, unfortunately those only available on the PowerPoint version below.

Happy teaching,

CarpentreBee

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)