Writing

Nought And Crosses

Students play noughts and crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe) and command their partner to do an action.

Student Examples

Students answer questions about what other students are doing.

Make A Newspaper

Make a front page to a newspaper.

Have They Finished Yet?

Students read and answer questions about Baymax and Mikasa's schedule using the present prefect to answer the questions.

Give Away

Students scramble to try and give their tickets to friends based on the teacher's directions.

How Many Pencils Do You Have?

Students write "I have ~ pencils/erasers/etc" sentences. Then they ask each other "How many ~ do you have?" questions.

Doctor Patient Interview

Students take turns being doctor and patient, and interview each other following the dialogue on the worksheet.

Translation Relay

Students compete in small groups to translate Japanese sentences into English, relay style.

Quick & Easy "Can You...?"

This quick game is used to get students to practice saying "Can you...?" questions and responses.

Puzzle Scramble

This is a very flexible template for you to make sentence scramble lessons with puzzles. Students solve a puzzle and flip over the pieces to find a sentence.

Listening Bingo

A fun and challenging listening-based bingo game.

Country Race

Students race to find the spellings of each country and report it to their partner.

I Think That (Q&A)

Students write their opinions on various people/things and then interview other students.

Can Fail Sentence Race

This activity has students making can/can't sentences using funny pictures that really emphasize the ability meaning of the can verb.

Mario Board Game 2.0

Students write their opinions about certain topics and ask their friends their opinions while playing a fun Mario board game. Adaptable to different grammar points.

I Have Played Nintendo For 25 Years

Students write 3 true statements and 1 false statement about their lives using present perfect tense. Other students must guess which is the false statement.

Alphabet Telephone

A variation on Telephone to practice writing the alphabet.

Whose Introduction

Students fill out a worksheet about themselves. The class has to match the worksheet (likes/dislikes/activities) to the student.

Kantan Interview

Kantan means easy. Students interview two boys, girls and teachers to complete their questionnaire worksheet.

My Dream School

Students create their own school virtual school along with their dream rules.

5 W's & H

Students practice asking and answering questions using the 5Ws and H question words.

Fairy Tale Mad Libs

Students create hilarious stories by filling in missing verbs, adjectives and nouns based upon the classic stories of Cinderella and Momotaro, the Japanese version of Disney

Connect A-B-C

Review the order of the alphabet with a simple but challenging activity.

Memory

Match the cards with the 'Why' question to the 'Because' answer, followed by a short interview game.

What's Wrong? Board Game

Students play a board game to practice telling each other about their ailments and giving each other advice.

Superhero Powers

Students write a description of a superhero and then try to draw their friend’s superhero.

I Love My City

The students fill out a sheet in the style of Multi Plus 2 of New Horizon 2.

What Is The Best Interview

Students fill in their own answers and then ask their classmates questions such as, "What's the best movie you have ever seen?"

Er Est Worksheet

Students practice using 'er' and 'est' in this fun worksheet. There is also a riddle at the end for students to solve.

Fun With Prepositions

Using teamwork, students search for pictures around the room and describe it to their team members.

Hot Seat

A student sits at the front of the classroom and answers questions. Other students try to guess their answers.

Sengoku

Students use the names of Japanese prefectures to work on their spelling and vocabulary.

Ouch

Students learn how to describe their symptoms by playing Janken games.

I Have No Idea

Students try to guess their partner’s drawing then write their answer on their worksheet.

Crazy Bus Race

Based on New Horizon's Speaking Plus 2 (grade1), students create their own dialogue using the Crazy Bus map and worksheet.

Do You Like Bingo

An ice-breaking bingo game for 1st year JHS students that practices the 'do' helping verb.

Practicing Gerunds

This worksheet contains three practice activities for the gerunds.

Kidnap

A game to get the students to practice the four parts of learning (reading, writing, talking and listening) while trying to find out who kidnapped Miki Ando.

Shiritori Race

This activity is just like the Japanese Shiritori game where students fill-in-the-blanks with English words they know until they reach the finish point.

Let's Have Fun

Students find their match using 'Let's' and 'use' dialogues.