Students speak in the activity.
How To Gucha
Students interview each other using "Do you know how to...?"
Castles
Students compete in rows to destroy magnetic castles and capture flags in a quiz style game.
Who's Doing What?
This three-part activity starts with students listening to a dialogue between the JTE and ALT. Then they play Bingo and finish off with a writing exercise.
Time Hunters
Students travel around game board collecting times on their cards for various daily routine verbs.
Do You Have A Game To Play?
A simple guessing game that has students asking the target grammar in its question form and writing it as a statement.
Guess The Number
Students have to try to guess a number from within a set range. The less guesses, the more the points.
Was & Did
Working in pairs, one student gives their partners past tense and past participle questions while their partners search out two pictures across the room looking for the answers.
Animal Jeopardy
Students practice saying various animals by choosing can't-be-seen cards from a Jeopardy-formatted chalkboard.
How To Get To
Students work in pairs and ask/answer questions to various destinations.
Portrait (Funny Drawing Activity)
This activity can be used as a practice for "How many ~?" lesson. Students have a good laugh at their final outputs. Activity can be done by pair or small groups.
Sengoku Review
A year-end review strategy game played by the whole class. Teams roll a dice then ask and answer questions to invade other team's prefectures.
SLIDES and LADDERS
This is a modified Snakes and Ladders game to review grammar points for JHS first grade (in this version, VERB TENSES). Can be played with individual players or in groups.
Breakfast Bingo Balls
This is a bingo activity where the students themselves choose which words to read out and in pairs ask each other the questions.
Story Cards
Pairs of students listen to teacher read a bad and crazy fairytale. If they match, they win!
Shape Uno
Students play the famous UNO card game while practicing saying the names of ten shapes in English.
Janken Meishi Action
A twist on janken meishi. Students have to perform an action before giving up their card.
Want to go to Saizeria
Students think of reasons to complete the sentences.
Funky Sentences
Students work in groups to formulate passive voice sentences following guideline keywords given by other students.
Anything To Eat
Students use Infinitive Verbs sentences to fill in a grid.
How To Old Maid
Students play Old Maid while asking, "Do you know how to/what to/where to/when to~?"
Monster In The Bedroom
Students listen to where the objects are and then connect the dots to find the hidden animal.
Blindfold Direction
A blindfolded student is guided by his peers to his chosen destination.
Paper Airplane Introductions
Students read a self-introduction from one of their classmates, then the class guesses which student it's from.
Take Or Give
Students answer questions to get points, but don't know if they're positive or negative until after they answer!
BB Fun
BB stands for Birthday Bingo. Students learn the basics for months and days in English.
Ways To SF
This is a simple listening exercise for students to learn how to ask for directions and draw on the map while famous places in San Francisco are being introduced to them.
Magic Numbers
This card trick will leave your students breathless but it only works if they know how to spell numbers 1-10.
Nice To Meet You
Students practice expressions used during self-introductions.
I Have Never
This game is based on the American drinking game, "Never have I ever..."
Asteroids
A dice rolling game to practice sentences with 'must' in them.
Let's Agree To Disagree
Students practice sentences to debate for/against a motion.
Buying and Selling
Game involving every student, reviews numbers 10-100.
Plural Monster Drawing
Students draw monsters while practicing body parts.
How To Make Origami
An interview activity where students find out what their friends know how to do.
Bingo Interview: Who/He/She
Students interview each other using "Who is he/she?" questions.
Mastermind
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
Which Do You Like
Students try to get a bingo while practicing, "Which do you like, ____ or ____?"
English Class Rules
This is a relatively quick game to practice the must/mustn't grammar form while also reviewing verbs and basic rules of behavior in English class.
Shapely Animals
Students draw animals using the shapes they are taught. This is a very easy and basic activity which teaches students to recognize shapes in animals.
Pairs Janken Snake
This game helps students practice vocabulary or English sentences. It is a general game that can be used for ES or JHS lessons.
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