Flexible
This activity can be adapted to a wide variety of grammar points.
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Mario Cannon Blast
Rescue Princess Peach Use Your English To Defeat Bowser
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"The Garden" point game
A simple game based on Typhoon - but instead of natural disasters, it's crows in your flower garden! Good for any kind of review and small classes.
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T & T Game (PowerPoint Version)
Based on the T&T Game submitted from Englipedia Archive. This is a PowerPoint version that doesn't require printing point cards or game board.
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Weather Report Battleship
Practice with days of the week and weather for new/young learners.
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On In By Under Game
Practice prepositions :)
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Universal Design pitch
students brainstorm and present ideas about UD
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Tug-of-War (Kite Battle)
Tug-of-war based activity for translation races
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Pokemon Catch Review
Based on Mario Jeopardy and other Jeopardy games, this one is based on Pokemon! Useful for reviewing grammar!
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I like animals
Find the pokeball by saying "I like [animal name]"
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NH⑤ Unit 2 materials (When is your birthday?)
Printouts to practice dates, holidays, ordinal numbers. Designed for use with New Horizons 5 Unit 2.
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Who can do what?
A short writing activity and guessing game for students to practice writing "I can..." sentences.
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Random Sentence Generator
An online random sentence generator to use in class and with activities.
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Yubisuma! 指スマ!
Fun guessing game based on the 指スマ game!
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Month Day Verb Cards
Ready to print cards
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Guess Who - Are you, Do you, Can you?
Guess Who worksheet made for end of Unit 1 review for JHS textbook New Horizons - 1, with optional Writing Practice page.
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Flying Fish 'Koi No Bori' Point Game
A race and speak or write and race point game suitable for the spring.
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Start of class (Aisatsu) cards
Cards to use for the start of class at elementary school. The Japanese teachers usually have some idea of how to do the start of class aisatsu, but these cards help a lot.
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Mario Kart DS Quiz
Enjoy this popular activity based on the Nintendo DS version of Mario Kart. I have made a considerable use of its soundtrack composed by Shinobu Tanaka.
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Answer Checklist
A short group activity to practice making and asking questions, can be used for many different grammar points
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Sit Down Elimination Games
Students are asked a question and based on their answer they either stay standing or are eliminated and sit down. Great for short reviews at the start or end of class.
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Card King
It's basically Cards Against Humanity, but for students.
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Mario Party - Have you ever
Have students work together in groups in order to gather the most coins!
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 ⑤ & ⑥ materials
Collection of prints, activities and materials for use at elementary school. Covers all units of the New Horizon 5 and 6 textbooks.
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The Bomb Game (Hot Potato Game)
A powerpoint version of the 'bakudan game' as its called in Japan or hot potato as we often called it Canada.
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BattleBots! (Ver 1.3)
Mecha review Building/Battle Game
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4 corners
A fun game to play with a big class.
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One Piece Battleship
A battleship game to help students practice speaking the target grammar point.
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Duck Shoot!
Points based game probably best for translation races
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Splatoon Fest!
Paint the town your colour to win!
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Routine Race
This can be used for Unit 2 of the New Horizon ES lesson or any lesson about the use of adverbs of frequency.
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How to:"What's missing? and "Where is Pikachu?"
A step-by-step guide when making these two basic PowerPoint games.
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One year review for Grade 5 and Grade 6
I used the same template created by UonumaRobert. I just added more questions to give all students a chance to answer and play the game.
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Here We Go! 6 Review Questions
A list of questions to ask during Unit or Year-End review.
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Mario Kart
A sugoroku-type of review game usually used for elementary students.
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Let's Play Bingo!: Bingo cards for tablets
An online bingo card generator that you can use with tablets.
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Hinamatsuri Point Game
A race and speak activity loosely based on the Doll's Day Festival in March.
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Scale The Spire/DragonSlayer Game
Class-Based fantasy Competitive Team Review Game
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Pokemon Wipeout
A race and speak activity that can be adjusted to various target language goals.
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Battle for Gunma
A strategy team game based on Battle for Japan centered around Gunma. Can be used for unit review or as an end-of-the-year activity.
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Pokemon Unit Review Activity
A great unit review game for any elementary grade level.
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Super Mario Christmas Blast
A fun Christmas Mario-themed quiz game, where teams battle each other in a test of knowledge! Built off the original Super Mario Typhoon by Alexander Grant.
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Magic Quiz
A family feud style quiz game
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Battle for Japan
A write and race game based on the Senkoku Jidai quiz game found on the Englipedia site.
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4 hint quiz
A quiz giving easy hints to an animal that the students guess.
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Uno Like Card Games
A speaking activity based on the Uno Card Game. The same deck can also be used to play Go Fish