Small class size

This activity works best in small classes (under 10 students).

Some activities work better with a smaller group of students due to coordination or the materials required. Many games can be scaled down to a small class with some modification, but these activities are best suited for less than 10 students.

Dobble (shapes, colours, common words)

A version of the Dobble or Spot It! game for ES students. A speed-based game to practice vocabulary. It is good for warm-ups or during extra time at the end of class. 3-5 players.
Guess Who!

The classic Guess Who! game (with just printouts) to practice "do you have" and "are you" questions.
Mario Cannon Blast

Rescue Princess Peach Use Your English To Defeat Bowser
"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.
Stationery GO FISH card game

Meant to review "Do you have ___?" statements and Unit 5 from Let's Try! 2 ("Do you have a pen?"). This is a printable GO FISH game with some Uno elements that make it more fun. Good for groups of 4.
Practice Counting 1-20 + "How many candies?"

Review and practice numbers 1-20 and play "Find the candies!" + "How many candies?" by grace0103
Days of the Week The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A booklet students can make and refer to for their days of the week.
I want to go to ~, I want to see/eat ~ cards

Additional cards for Junior Sunshine 6 - Lesson 3 - Let's Play 5
Colours Dobble (Colors Spot It)

A 13 card Dobble game on colours
Halloween Dominoes

A halloween activities based loosely on dominoes to help students practice many Halloween words.
🌎World Greetings (New Horizon 6: Unit 1 OH)

This is for Elementary New Horizon 6's Unit 1 specifically for the Over the Horizon section.
What animals do you like?

This can be used to review the question, "What animal do you like?" and the answer "I like~."
Elementary/JHS Dobble

A printable game of Dobble. It has colours, animals, school necessities, sports, fruit and food on.
Map Exploring Game

A board game used to practice directions.
(NH5ES) Unit 8: Over the Horizon

Short quiz presentation + practice game about Japanese people who are also famous overseas.
New Horizon 5 U8 Review (Sentence Auction)

Please feel free to use this to review the target sentences of New Horizon's U8. Teams bid to win the artworks with sentences with the hope of getting points.
What do you want to be? I want to be...

Warm-up and jobs vocabulary and sentence practice.
Monster Town Point Game

Made for One World Smile 5 lesson 8. This is a race and speak game for practicing giving street directions.
Cities Around the World

I used this lesson in my Special Needs class after the countries' lesson.
Let's Try 2: My favorite place is the...

A presentation for Let's Try 2 that can be used to review the direction words and places in the school. You can use also use this to introduce the target sentence of the unit.
What food is it?

A simple guessing game
Present Perfect Punishment Party

Students ask each other questions about what they've done, and if they get it wrong, they must be punished!
4 pics 1 word (Jobs and Professions)

This is from the mobile application, 4 pics 1 word. This is for the students to practice the vocabularies from lesson 10 of Junior Sunshine 6.
Aussie Animal BINGO

A short warm up/cool down game of bingo using Australian animals.
music listening warmup idea

Watch a music video and try to catch the English word/phrase.
Mystery Christmas

Inspired by nachonaz's Mystery Animal
TRIVIA (Research activity)

Superlatives Quiz!
Olympic Skating Race Game

A powerpoint race game made for small 6th grade classes
"My Favorite Things" Listening Activity

Using the song "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music - circle the word you hear!
Disney Princess Battleship

Adaptable battleship style game
Adjective Cards

Small cards featuring 56 different adjective words
What do you like? (Let's Try 1)

You can use this power point presentation to discuss "what do you like" in 3rd or 4th grade
Hearthclone - a Conditional Card Game

For 2-6 players (per printout). Players read instruction rules on cards and execute their function.
Color Game (What color am I)

This power point presentation can be used as a review for colors topic in grade 3/4
Do you???

Simple interview and writing activity
American War of Independence

American War of Independence - English and Americans battle it out over tea or something
Don't Be Careful! KARUTA

Karuta game for ichinensei/imperatives using signs
I want to be a ~ Janken Game

Practice job vocabulary and play Janken
What do you want to do? DRILL

Speaking focus! 💛
Are you a soccer fan?

A simplified battleship-style game.

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