Students write in the activity.
Colour Scavenger Hunt
Help students practice their colours and the names of places around the school with this fun game.
Kaiten Sushi
Students pass around pictures of sushi with music playing. Whoever is holding sushi when the music stops has to write a sentence.
My Golden Week was ~~
A worksheet to accommodate the 2nd year Power-Up 1 activity in the Sunshine textbooks.
Have You Ever Interview
Introducing the question, "Have you ever ~ ?" and having students interview each other.
Infinitive Madlib
Students will (hopefully) make a funny story using the template of a Madlib that uses the target grammar.
Chalkboard Bingo
Students write words in their notebooks hoping to score a bingo.
I have (just/already) point cards
Students try to get the most points by taking time cards and making sentences about what they've just/already done at that time.
Magic Box Scramble
Teams race to unscramble the Magic Box story. Then, they answer questions to receive 'magic words', which then forms a 'magic question' the teams must answer.
Food Wheel
Students make a food wheel to help them become familiar with the written words for different foods.
Will Interviews
This is a very basic, quick and easy "Will you ~?" interview game.
Opinion Interviews
Students review and learn new adjectives and then poll their classmates about different topics.
Categories
Students aim to think of many words associated with a topic.
"How was" Memory and Lesson Plan
Students practice using the phrase "How was" (How was your weekend, lunch, etc.) by playing question-answer memory and then writing their own "How was" questions.
Back To The Future
Lets students review simple past tense whilst introducing simple future tense.
Know Miffy
Students ask each other reduced relative clause questions to gather various peoples' names.
Weekend Diary
Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
In A Dark Room
Students close their eyes and imagine the story you tell them. Upon opening their eyes, they complete a worksheet based upon their imagination.
English Makes Me Happy
Kids make groups of three and interview two friends by asking: "What makes you <adjective>?". Then, they introduce their friends to the class.
Brush ABC
Fast paced recognition game to learn the alphabet.
Self-Intro Worksheet
I use these worksheets for the first class of the year. One sheet is for first-year students, and the second one is for returning students.
How To Gucha
Students interview each other using "Do you know how to...?"
Who's Doing What?
This three-part activity starts with students listening to a dialogue between the JTE and ALT. Then they play Bingo and finish off with a writing exercise.
Time or Length Word Race
This is a word race game that has students trying to write long words in order to win the race.
Story Cards
Pairs of students listen to teacher read a bad and crazy fairytale. If they match, they win!
Funky Sentences
Students work in groups to formulate passive voice sentences following guideline keywords given by other students.
Anything To Eat
Students use Infinitive Verbs sentences to fill in a grid.
Paper Airplane Introductions
Students read a self-introduction from one of their classmates, then the class guesses which student it's from.
Beginner's Poetry
This poetry writing exercise allows students the chance to express themselves via the beautiful language of poetry.
Asteroids
A dice rolling game to practice sentences with 'must' in them.
Let's Agree To Disagree
Students practice sentences to debate for/against a motion.
Cleaning The Haunted House
Two fun passive voice riddles that can be used after students learn to use the passive voice.
Fast Touch
Students race to be the fastest to touch the body part explained by the ALT.
How To Make Origami
An interview activity where students find out what their friends know how to do.
Mastermind
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
Bye Bye Spelling
Students memorize words written on the chalkboard and write them as you randomly erase them.
Snoopy's Busy Month
Students read sentences and change the verb in parentheses to the past tense form.
English Class Rules
This is a relatively quick game to practice the must/mustn't grammar form while also reviewing verbs and basic rules of behavior in English class.
He Looks Terrible
The students look at pictures and listen to sounds, and then write sentences to describe what they saw/heard.
What Do You Think Of English
Students translate the adjectives into Japanese then ask each other their opinions.
Relative Matching
Students make sentences using 'that/which' Relative Pronouns.
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