Speaking

Hungry Hungry Hippo

Students play a fun card game while practicing "Would you like some ~?".

Neighborhood Race

Blindfolded kids are guided by their teammates through a map to find a place. This game uses the directions: right, left, up, down, back and stop.

What Is Yoda Doing?

An information gap activity which can be played in pairs or a class where students find out what various characters are doing.

Doctor Dodgeball

Students play Japanese dodgeball in a civil manner by destroying each other with polite words.

$1,000,000 Vacation

Students plan how they will spend $1,000,000 by writing future tense sentences.

Bridge

Students try to race across the Vocab Bridge to the opponent’s side. This game is also known as "Snake Line" or "Janken Line".

Search The Textbook

This is a review game for New Horizon 2's textbook. Students are given questions and they must find the answers in their textbooks

Will You Phone Convo

Students write sentences and plug them into the phone conversation dialog.

Go Fish

Students walk around playing Janken and asking for target vocabulary cards.

Sentence Making Relay

Students try to make passive sentences from sheets over paper located on the walls of the classroom.

Spontaneous Interviews

Students aim to complete the interview task using the grammar point.

Characters Calling

This activity is to help students get familiar with speaking on the phone and inviting their friends out.

Janken Gestures

Students play rock-paper-scissors and practice the Classroom English vocabulary. This activity works best with Total English but fits with most textbooks.

Where Again

Good and easy speaking practice idea for students to work together to find out the locations of the items in their school.

Do you like baseball?

Students ask questions to each other; they don't want 'Yes' answers.

Who's This Woman?

Students create names for characters on the worksheet and then ask classmates, 'Who's this ~?' Then, students practice writing questions and answers.

Crazy Diary Entry

A writing activity that lets students make a crazy diary entry. Student then read their diary entry to the class for lots of fun.

But Not Okinawa

Students test their knowledge of Japan's prefectures, minus Okinawa, and then practice asking about the location of the prefectures they don't know.

Rescue 119

Students help rescue plane crash victims by locating them in a classroom and then writing a report to submit to the rescue authorities.

May I / Could you: activity worksheet

2 part worksheet for p28-29 of New Horizon 2.

PPP

This activity practices Past Progressive Pair work (was/were + verb'ing').

When Do You Have Plans?

Students invite each other to do things and write about their friends' plans in this speaking, listening, and writing activity.

Alphabet Shopping

This is a shopping game using uppercase letters, the aim of which is to have children familiarise themselves with the letters in a non-patterned way.

Slap My Hand

Students practice saying the months or days while trying to stay in the game.

Are You? Guessing Game

Guessing game where students will ask the questions and try to discover which character their partner has chosen.

Week Time Race

Each student in turn says one day of the week in order. The class races to beat their time.

Do You Have A Larger One?

Simple pair worksheet for shopping and using comparatives.

Printable playing cards

If you don't want to spend money on a bunch of card decks, print these out instead!

This/That Animal

This is a speaking activity for the introduction and/or practice of the target sentence: "This/That is..."

Sum Of 21

Students practice counting from 1-20 with a deck of cards.

Guess Who

Use prints of the fun board game "Guess Who" to practice the expressions, "Do you have ~?" and "Are you ~?"

Have you ____ today? Present Perfect guessing

Students practice the present perfect with words like "already," "just," and "not yet" through a character guessing game.

Who am I? Quiz

A three-hint-quiz type of game where students have to guess the character being described. Perfect activity for We Can! 2 Unit 3 "He is Famous. She is great."

Zombies

Students become zombies to practice "I like ___.", "I like ___ too" and/or "I don't like ___.

Calendar Tic-Tac-Toe

This game gets students to practice "It will be (sunny) on (July eighth).

Guess the Teacher - Pronouns

Students practice the pronouns "he" and "she" by quizzing their classmates about teachers at their school.

What's In The Bag

Students ask yes/no questions about something hidden in a bag until they guess it.

Did The ALT...?

Students ask the ALT questions using 'did' questions: "Did you eat breakfast yesterday?" Points are recieved for 'yes' responses.

I Have Never

Students play "Never Have I Ever" in lunch groups, then write about what they learned about their classmates.

Monster Market

Students shop for monsters in this take of the classic shopping dialogue.