This activity can be adapted to a wide variety of grammar points.
Castles
Students compete in rows to destroy magnetic castles and capture flags in a quiz style game.
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.
Take Or Give
Students answer questions to get points, but don't know if they're positive or negative until after they answer!
Kyoto Invasion
A power point game that can be adapted to many lesson points
Mastermind
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
ALT and JTE Interview
Students think of 'Do you like' questions to ask the teachers and fill in the worksheet.
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.
UNO and GO FISH CARDS And Extras
A speaking activity based on the Uno Card Game. The same deck can also be used to play Go Fish
Super Mario Typhoon
Students review what was studied in the year with a fun, 48 question quiz based on Mario.
The Sleeping Game
Students work together to put sentences in the right order.
GO FISH
Great flexible card game
UFO Attack
Students must answer questions to move the UFO away from their base.
Find The Wrong - Is/Are
This is a game in which the students race to be the first to find all the grammar mistakes.
Squares
In this strategy game, students draw lines to try and complete a square.
ROBOTS ATTACK THE TOWN
If it looks like ROBOTS ATTACK THE WORLD. That's because it pretty much is.
MINGLER QUESTIONS
A simple activity useful for communicating and reviewing target language.
ZOMBIE ATTACK powerpoint Game
This is a colorful powerpoint game along with a sign game and some follow up writing I often use with it.
CHARACTER RACE
The horse race activity played on the board. I often do it as a review before tests.
CASTLE BATTLES
Another territorial battle game. Like Robots attacking the world it is meant for longer or more advanced questions.
ODD ONE OUT
A discussion activity useful for 3rd year classes.
ROBOTS ATTACK THE WORLD
A battle power point game similiar to the Battle for Japan activity or Invasion USA. The groups work at their own speed though.
Speed Circling
A karuta styled activity to be played in pairs.
Super Mario Review Quiz
A modified version of the Mario Typhoon Game from the Englipedia with a lot of questions (most) provided by an ALT from Nagaoka named Morgan.
SOCCER GAME
A 'janken based' pair game useful for practicing many patterns. It is most useful for 'Yes' and 'No' question patterns.
Almost Pokemon Battle Game
This is a write and race activity the students play in groups.
Totally Awesome Quiz Game
This is a general use quiz game for various group quizes. It is a variation on the typhoon game.
INVASION USA
Variation on Battle for Japan.
Park Life and others
Flexible posters and worksheets that can be used to practice present progressive, past progressive, reduced relative pronoun and so on.
Awesome-ish Game
A write and race group game. They race to answer the questions to get points.
Can I use your Battleship?
Can I use your battleship? Let students practice many "Can I use your..." sentences and have fun playing the classic Battleship game.
Can & Can't
CAN helping verb. Students are given a card with a name highlighted on it. They must make two sentences using can or can't and their partner must work out who they are to win the card.
Super Mario Can Review
CAN helping verb. This is essentially a board game that is made to look like an early Mario video game level.
Battle for Japan
A write and race game based on the Senkoku Jidai quiz game found on the Englipedia site.
ALMOST MARIO KART Powerpoint Game
The students work together in teams to answer the teachers questions in fun class race.
Christmas Blast Power Point Game
This is a template that I made that can be filled in to make a review game for almost anything. Since the questions are able to be customized, this power point can work at any level.
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.
Hidden Treasure
Students practice a new grammar pattern by playing this Battleship-style game.
Corrections
Help your students avoid and learn from common mistakes by having them correct sentences.
Karuta
A game in which the teacher says a word or phrase and students race to slap the correct card.
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