Students read in the activity.
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.
Funky Sentences
Students work in groups to formulate passive voice sentences following guideline keywords given by other students.
How To Old Maid
Students play Old Maid while asking, "Do you know how to/what to/where to/when to~?"
Paper Airplane Introductions
Students read a self-introduction from one of their classmates, then the class guesses which student it's from.
Making Monsters
This is a drawing activity for Halloween that can be used to teach body parts and plurals.
Let's Agree To Disagree
Students practice sentences to debate for/against a motion.
Cleaning The Haunted House
Two fun passive voice riddles that can be used after students learn to use the passive voice.
How To Make Origami
An interview activity where students find out what their friends know how to do.
Mastermind
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
Bye Bye Spelling
Students memorize words written on the chalkboard and write them as you randomly erase them.
Snoopy's Busy Month
Students read sentences and change the verb in parentheses to the past tense form.
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.
Alphabet Mistakes
Guess what letters are not correct and fix them.
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.
Thief
Students compose a series of questions to try and guess who the thief of the chocolate cake the ALT made was.
What Do You Think Of English
Students translate the adjectives into Japanese then ask each other their opinions.
Relative Matching
Students make sentences using 'that/which' Relative Pronouns.
Have You Ever Bet
Students practice "Have you ever ....?" questions while having fun betting about classmates' experiences.
Daily Routine
Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
Scattergories
The objective of Scattergories is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit.
Eto
Students race to recall alphabet letters randomly written on the chalkboard.
Word Finder
A simple yet addictive and competitive word finder game.
Scrabble Time Bomb
A timer is started and students race to write words on the chalkboard and not to be the student holding the chalk when the timer sounds.
Super Mario Typhoon
Students review what was studied in the year with a fun, 48 question quiz based on Mario.
Run and Read
Pair activity that involves students finding information that is scattered around the classroom and passing it on to their partner.
Ghost Leg
Students practice the alphabet by playing a bingo game based on "amida kuji," which means "ghost leg."
The Sleeping Game
Students work together to put sentences in the right order.
Find The Wrong - Is/Are
This is a game in which the students race to be the first to find all the grammar mistakes.
Where Am I?
Students practice giving and receiving directions while playing Othello.
The Man Wearing A Striped Shirt
Students must find Waldo/Wally and other people in the picture before other groups!
Daimeishi Relay
Groups race to place their pronoun cards in the correct place on their invisible grid located on the chalkboard.
Shopping For Mom
Students go shopping using Mom's list while role playing and practicing the target grammar.
Dice Of Fortune
Students guess letters of the sentence on the board, similar to Wheel of Fortune.
Squares
In this strategy game, students draw lines to try and complete a square.
Where should Naomi Osaka choose?
Students discuss whether Naomi Osaka should choose to become a Japanese or American citizen.
Media Diet
Students read an article and talk about their media consumption habits.
Present continuous - I'm playing tennis.
An activity worksheet that practices presesent continuous, for example, "I'm eating ramen."
I watched TV past simple
A "Who Dunnit" game that has students asking other students what they were doing recently.
There is... There are
An activity (set in Tokyo, Japan) for practicing "There is" and "there are"
Comparatives "Totoro is bigger than Mei"
Pair activity to practice comparatives.
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