Students read in the activity.
Twister
Students try to twist their bodies/limbs into various pretzel shapes to correspond to the ALTs instructions.
Infinitive Madlib
Students will (hopefully) make a funny story using the template of a Madlib that uses the target grammar.
Chalkboard Bingo
Students write words in their notebooks hoping to score a bingo.
Polite Conversations
Students practice speaking and polite conversation with a fun comic.
Magic Box Scramble
Teams race to unscramble the Magic Box story. Then, they answer questions to receive 'magic words', which then forms a 'magic question' the teams must answer.
When Are You Free?
Students try to guess which character their partner has chosen.
Food Wheel
Students make a food wheel to help them become familiar with the written words for different foods.
"How was" Memory and Lesson Plan
Students practice using the phrase "How was" (How was your weekend, lunch, etc.) by playing question-answer memory and then writing their own "How was" questions.
Know Miffy
Students ask each other reduced relative clause questions to gather various peoples' names.
Weekend Diary
Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
Exploding Sentences
Students draw cards from a Mystery Box and practice saying the target word and example sentence.
In A Dark Room
Students close their eyes and imagine the story you tell them. Upon opening their eyes, they complete a worksheet based upon their imagination.
Monsters On Mt Fuji
Students work together to find out which monsters are going to blow up Mt. Fuji and try to capture them before anything bad happens.
ABC Snakes And Ladders
Alphabet Snakes and Ladders helps students recognize the letters of the Alphabet, review colors, and learn the vocabulary that goes with each letter.
World Rally
Spice up that boring direction class with a little unadulterated racing goodness.
How To Gucha
Students interview each other using "Do you know how to...?"
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.
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
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.
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