Students speak in the activity.
Weather Chat
To complete a weather map of Japan, students interview each other.
Introducing Characters
Students mingle and exchange character cards whilst introducing the characters to their friends. The aim is to try to find out the relationship of as many characters as possible within 8 minutes.
Household Chores
Students do a survey in class to see how often they help their mother around the house.
Bus Directions
Students work at a hotel front desk giving "customers" written directions to various sites around the city using a bus route map. (Review of New Crown 2 & 3 We're Talking 1)
Preposition Pictionary
This game is played like you would Pictionary, except all the cards are in the form of prepositions.
Doink
In this fast-paced gesture game, students throw a Doink ball around the room acting out various adjectives.
May I Take Your Order?
Students act as waiters, playing janken and taking orders to see who can make the most money in this quick and easy to set up game!
Remember
Students aim to remember multiple "May/Could I ~" sentences.
Best Sentence
A judge will decide after hearing each slip of concluding sentences which one is the funniest or most interesting.
Fruit Basket "Have You Ever...?"
A fun game played with a circle of students in chairs.
Would You Like To Interview
Students try to ask 16 other students "Would you like to..." questions.
Dice Station
A group game where students take turns calling out stations and giving directions while trying to win points.
Greetings Board Game
Somewhere in the 1st year textbook, students have to learn how to give reactions and learn appropriate responses. This is a fun game for students to practice responses as they try to win the game.
Farm
Students practice saying various animals and colors by placing them on a giant farm.
Can I Play Janken?
Students try to get bingo by asking for favors/permission using 'Can you/Can I...' questions.
Continuous Guessing
This is a Guess Who-style game using cards and point tokens.
Invite Me Baby
Students aim to understand the grammar and form a free dialogue around various questions.
It's About Christmas
A Christmas-themed worksheet activity where students learn Christmas vocabulary and create sentences with prepositional phrases.
Oh No! Bingo
A tactical bingo game where bingo is bad. Students practice speaking as well as listening.
Past Tense Dice Game
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular past tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
First Phonics Lesson
This game gets them to associate letters with word sounds by having students generate English words in various categories that start with specific letters.
Mystery Burger, Please
Students learn how to order various fast food items then customize their own dialogue to practice with their friends.
Where's The Pickle?
A fun activity based on the Christmas tradition of finding the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree.
Time And Weather
An information gap game where students ask each other the time and weather in different parts of the world.
You Decide T/F
The ALT reads 4 sentences and the students have to decide which sentence is false. In groups, students write their own sentences and the other students have to find the liar.
Band Guess
Students try to guess the name of the band from pictograms.
Charades
This activity practices the present progressive verb tense (verb + ing) and then plays a fun charades game.
Oh No! Origami
Students answer questions or get folded.
Character's Clothes
Students see a small part of a character (a piece of clothing or body part). They guess which character the clothing/body part belongs to.
Schedule Tic-Tac-Toe
Using the classic game, kids practice school subjects, days of the week, and using both in the context of a sentence.
Uso Baseball
The students play a baseball-themed game where they describe themselves.
This Is A Game I Played
A simple speaking and listening Janken-focused sugoroku that has students say, "What's this?" "This is a ..." many times.
Hand Lines
Students discover their friends' future by reading the palm lines on their hands.
I'll Give You Game
Students pass around cards while saying "I'll give you ~." Those left holding the cards when the music stops are out!
Yamanote Line
Students pound on their desks and while practicing various English target vocabulary.
Broom Ball
Students play imaginary baseball in the classroom without using bats, balls, or bases.
Answer Me Bingo
This is a group Jeopardy game mixed with a flavor of Bingo.
Thumb War
Students practice numbers 1-10 or 10-100 using Thumb War.
Passive Beginnings
This information gap game is pretty self-explanatory.
Original Juice
Students decide on a recipe, then go shopping for ingredients to make their very own Original Juice.
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