Students write in the activity.
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.
Fruity Collection
Students walk around and exchange their picture cards with other students, with the goal of collecting many fruits that they like and giving away fruits that they don't like.
Have You Ever Bet
Students practice "Have you ever ....?" questions while having fun betting about classmates' experiences.
Daily Routine
Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
Do As I Say
Students work in groups to respond to commands from the teacher and formulate appropriate responses.
Scattergories
The objective of Scattergories is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit.
Letters To Hakuho
This activity gives the students an opportunity to make funny or interesting sentences using the 'it...for...to...' pattern.
Alphabet Madness
An activity to motivate students to write the alphabet faster.
Monster Drawing
Students use their knowledge of English colors, numbers, body parts, and shapes (optional) to draw a monster based upon the ALT's description.
Super Mario Typhoon
Students review what was studied in the year with a fun, 48 question quiz based on Mario.
Run and Read
Pair activity that involves students finding information that is scattered around the classroom and passing it on to their partner.
Hawaiian Plane Crash
The students are given a plane crash scenario and they must choose objects from the crash to carry with them to survive.
UFO Attack
Students must answer questions to move the UFO away from their base.
Find The Wrong - Is/Are
This is a game in which the students race to be the first to find all the grammar mistakes.
Who kidnapped Miki Ando?
Students translate Perfect Present sentences from Japanese to English in order to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Miki Ando.
Where Am I?
Students practice giving and receiving directions while playing Othello.
Sazae-san's Family
This is a simple game in which the students become a member of the Sazae-san family.
Pyramid Game
Students have to think of English words, phrases and sentences in order to help other students understand the mystery word.
My JHS highlights
Students reflect back on their years in junior high school and share their memories with their classmates.
Where should Naomi Osaka choose?
Students discuss whether Naomi Osaka should choose to become a Japanese or American citizen.
Media Diet
Students read an article and talk about their media consumption habits.
What are they doing?
Students practice Present Progressive grammar by drawing two people and asking their classmates what they're doing.
Pitch your business
Students come up with a business idea and compete to see who will get funding.
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