Students speak in the activity.
Spongy Intros
The aim of this worksheet is to help 1st graders practice self-introductions and understand its format structure.
How To Get Around School
This lesson should be used as a review activity AFTER the students already know how to ask and express directions.
Is There Any Milk?
This is an activity to practice using countable and non-countable nouns.
Actionnaire
Students practice saying prepositional sentences and watch them come true right in front of their eyes.
Janken, Change, Retire
Students work in pairs to answer two questions in order for their pair to retire from the game.
Imperative Blindfold Drawing
Shout out the imperative your blindfolded teammate is trying to draw before anyone else to gain a point for your team.
Omikuji Fortune Telling
Students draw fortunes (omikuji) from different categories to determine their futures!
Memory (Card Game)
Like the classic game memory, but with pictures and words. Pattern practice for -er comparatives.
100 Yen Shop
Students guess which items are 100 yen or antiques.
Paper Janken
Students practice asking and answering "Which is your favorite, A or B?" (or which do you like?) and play a modified version of janken.
Magical Cards
This is a mathematical card trick that is good for introducing numbers and mystifying your students.
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.
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