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Vocabulary Review

The activity is primarily used to review vocabulary that students have already learned.

Before tests or at the end of a chapter in a textbook, it's a good idea to review recent vocabulary that the students have learned.

Five-by-Five

Teams receive points based upon their ability to answer questions on a 5-by-5 grid.

Shiritori Circle Battle

Students practice spelling by playing the game "Shiritori" and trying to find a word that can complete a cycle.

Bridge

Students try to race across the Vocab Bridge to the opponent’s side. This game is also known as "Snake Line" or "Janken Line".

Go Fish

Students walk around playing Janken and asking for target vocabulary cards.

May I / Could you: activity worksheet

2 part worksheet for p28-29 of New Horizon 2.

Who am I? Quiz

A three-hint-quiz type of game where students have to guess the character being described. Perfect activity for We Can! 2 Unit 3 "He is Famous. She is great."

T & T

"T & T" stands for Tsunami and Typhoon, and it is a great review activity for any level students. The rules are easy and the game is as fun as the teachers and students make it.

Chalkboard Bingo

Students write words in their notebooks hoping to score a bingo.

Vocabulary Wars

This is a vocabulary battle that can be used with any small set of vocabulary. It is great for younger classes, but can work with any grade.

Categories

Students aim to think of many words associated with a topic.

Exploding Sentences

Students draw cards from a Mystery Box and practice saying the target word and example sentence.

Sports and Their Verbs

A handy guide to show students why some sports use "play" and others don't. (No more "I play run"!)

Days and Subjects Information Gathering

A mingler activity to practice days of the week and school subjects

Totally Awesome Subjects and Days Game

This uses a 5 x 5 game to practice days and subjects

Portrait (Funny Drawing Activity)

This activity can be used as a practice for "How many ~?" lesson. Students have a good laugh at their final outputs. Activity can be done by pair or small groups.

Cross it Out

A quick activity useful for practicing simple questions and answers. I usually use it for 'What's this?'

Drawing Challenge

A short activity for practicing simple be verb sentences

Fun Fruits

A group based point getting game. It works well as a write and race type activitiy.

ALT and JTE Interview

Students think of 'Do you like' questions to ask the teachers and fill in the worksheet.

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.

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.

UFO Attack

Students must answer questions to move the UFO away from their base.

Thirty-six

Students review recent vocabulary by quizzing each other.

Speed Circling

A karuta styled activity to be played in pairs.

There is... There are

An activity (set in Tokyo, Japan) for practicing "There is" and "there are"

Phonics and Alphabet Worksheets and Presentations

This is a collection of phonics and alphabet worksheets and a few presentations I've used over the last few years.

I + plural verb/be verb

This is a listening and writing activity intended for a JHS first grade lesson focusing on the use of the subject "I" + plural verbs / be verb.

Hi Friends 2! Lesson 6 What Time Do You Get Up

A board game to practice telling the time and saying parts of their daily routine.

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.

Karuta

A game in which the teacher says a word or phrase and students race to slap the correct card.

Karuta: Alternative

Different ways of playing karuta games

Karuta: Can Convo

Different ways of playing karuta games

Simple Karuta

A game in which the teacher says a word or phrase and students race to slap the correct card.

Liar Liar

Students draw cards of target vocabulary and make a sentence. Other students guess if they are lying or not.

Class Paparazzi

A very basic interviewing game in which students chase each other and ask basic "Are you~?" questions with "I am" answers while sporting tiny printed cameras.

Jumble

Students practice spelling by mixing up words and quizzing each other.

Inside Outside Circles

Students practice answering and asking questions while moving around in circles to music.