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Up And Down

Students play a Snake & Ladders type of game while practicing present continuous form and also the past tense singular/plural forms.

Finger Twister

Students practice the days of the week by playing Twister using their fingers.

Flash colours pairs memory game

*A twist on the classic memory game where you try to find matching pairs (and forgetting them 5 seconds later...)*

Spongy Intros

The aim of this worksheet is to help 1st graders practice self-introductions and understand its format structure.

100 Yen Shop

Students guess which items are 100 yen or antiques.

Magical Cards

This is a mathematical card trick that is good for introducing numbers and mystifying your students.

Farm

Students practice saying various animals and colors by placing them on a giant farm.

Can you find the picture in the textbook?

Students search their textbook for pictures that match the criteria and then write a quiz for their classmates.

Continuous Guessing

This is a Guess Who-style game using cards and point tokens.

Oh No! Bingo

A tactical bingo game where bingo is bad. Students practice speaking as well as listening.

Listening Race

Students listen to the teacher read Present Tense verb sentences and circle the correct picture.

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.

Dot-to-Dot

Students listen to the teacher call out random numbers between 1-20 or 1-100 to complete dot-to-dot handout(s).

Haunted House Making

A fun activity for practicing Halloween vocabulary.

Connect A-B-C

Review the order of the alphabet with a simple but challenging activity.

World Tour Game

Students practice the phrases "Where do you want to go?" and "I want to go to ~" in an exciting dice rolling game.

Animal Coloring

Children color animals according to the ALT's instructions.

Sengoku

Students use the names of Japanese prefectures to work on their spelling and vocabulary.

Shiritori Race

This activity is just like the Japanese Shiritori game where students fill-in-the-blanks with English words they know until they reach the finish point.

Shaped Animals

Animals made out of geometric shapes for practicing shapes and counting.

Draw the Object

Students practice drawing pictures based upon the preposition given.

Kakokei Karuta

"Kakokei" is Japanese for past tense. Students listen to the teacher read a sentence and slap the correct 'verb card'.

Ingurishu

In this match up activity, students try to match katakanized English with their real English spellings/words.

What is this? What is that? Guess the Sound

Play random sounds and have students in groups guess what they are.

Five-by-Five

Teams receive points based upon their ability to answer questions on a 5-by-5 grid.

Cut Out Caterpillar

This is a task based activity which practices the days of the week. It involves the students making a picture of a caterpillar by colouring, cutting and gluing the pieces.

I Doubt It

Similar to the game Bull$hit, students use a deck of cards to ask each other how many of a certain card they have.

What Janken

Students rotate partners, play janken, interview each other and embrace their artistic skills.

World Weird Festivals

This activity can be a sort of quiz game for the students while practicing the "I think (that)... sentence pattern. Though it can be used with any other grammar lessons, like verb tenses.

Printable playing cards

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

Random Superheroes

Students practice "can" grammar by making amusing randomly generated superheroes.

Doraemon Is My Brother

Students take a character card and roll a dice and say a sentence based on the outcome, e.g. "This is Godzilla, he is my dad."

"Is This?" Gap

An information gap activity where students ask their partner to work out the pictures on the worksheet.

Body Builder

Students learn how to recognize body parts by speaking and drawing the parts.

Family Tree

This is a fill-in-the-missing-blanks race game.

Animals from Around the World

A sleek and simple cultural presentation showing off various animals that are unique to (or native to) specific countries around the world.

This/That Memory

Students use a memory card game to practice Demonstrative Pronouns (this/that).

How do you go to _____ survey

Students practice "I go to ~ by ~" through a quick survey of their classmates.

Foods from Around the World

A sleek and simple cultural presentation showing off traditional and famous foods from countries around the world.