This activity can be adapted to a wide variety of grammar points.
Karuta: Alternative
Different ways of playing karuta games
Karuta: Can Convo
Simple Karuta
A game in which the teacher says a word or phrase and students race to slap the correct card.
Hot Potato
Students pass an object around while listening to music. When the music stops, the student holding the object says a target vocabulary.
This is That is card game
"This is a - That is a" review using a fun card game.
What time do you get up?
A matching game where students walk around the classroom and find the person with the matching card.
Collaborative review of New Crown 1
This is a review of the first 40 pages of NC1. A collaborative lesson where all members of each group have a role. Students need to work together to complete the task.
Are you From DokoDoko?
Students ask each other "Are you...?" questions and collect signatures.
Get it
Students listen for their card to be called and rush to collect toys.
Flashcard Police
An engaging strategy for practicing tedious memorization. As an alternative to the “read-and-repeat”, it works best with younger students but can be altered for older students.
Flashcard Baseball
Review flashcards while playing baseball with your students.
Five-by-Five
Teams receive points based upon their ability to answer questions on a 5-by-5 grid.
Fiddle Sticks
Students draw a stick from a cup and say the English word. The student with the most sticks at the end of the game/ end of the time limit is the winner.
Drawing Dash
You show 'drawers' a secret flashcard. They draw it, and their team guesses. How many can they guess in one minute?
3 Truths, 1 Lie
Students write four statements and try to guess which one is false.
I got you!
Students try to bluff each other with simple statements.
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