Requires the teacher to print out the activity on paper.
Dice Station
A group game where students take turns calling out stations and giving directions while trying to win points.
Take the Train Game
Board game to practice "Change trains at _____" "Get off at ______ station." "Take the _______ line."
Greetings Board Game
Somewhere in the 1st year textbook, students have to learn how to give reactions and learn appropriate responses. This is a fun game for students to practice responses as they try to win the game.
Farm
Students practice saying various animals and colors by placing them on a giant farm.
Can I Play Janken?
Students try to get bingo by asking for favors/permission using 'Can you/Can I...' questions.
Can you find the picture in the textbook?
Students search their textbook for pictures that match the criteria and then write a quiz for their classmates.
Gesture Quiz Game
I usually use this gesture game to introduce present continuous.
What are animals doing GAME
A point get game for practicing the present progressive.
Continuous Guessing
This is a Guess Who-style game using cards and point tokens.
Invite Me Baby
Students aim to understand the grammar and form a free dialogue around various questions.
It's About Christmas
A Christmas-themed worksheet activity where students learn Christmas vocabulary and create sentences with prepositional phrases.
Make a Monster
Students use present tense plural verbs to form sentences to describe an original monster.
Oh No! Bingo
A tactical bingo game where bingo is bad. Students practice speaking as well as listening.
Past Tense Dice Game
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular past tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
Mystery Burger, Please
Students learn how to order various fast food items then customize their own dialogue to practice with their friends.
Where's The Pickle?
A fun activity based on the Christmas tradition of finding the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree.
Time And Weather
An information gap game where students ask each other the time and weather in different parts of the world.
You Decide T/F
The ALT reads 4 sentences and the students have to decide which sentence is false. In groups, students write their own sentences and the other students have to find the liar.
Band Guess
Students try to guess the name of the band from pictograms.
Drawing Comparatives "-ER~THAN"
Students draw three sets of two comparatives according to the descriptions under each. Adjustable for superlatives.
Pencils and Bombs Review Quiz and Profile Game
A quiz review game and then a writing activity.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus SONG ACTIVITY
A fun Christmas activity for listening, reading, and writing. San-nensei.
Charades
This activity practices the present progressive verb tense (verb + ing) and then plays a fun charades game.
Past Tense Points
Students get into groups and try to come up with past tense sentences that will give them the most points.
Listening Race
Students listen to the teacher read Present Tense verb sentences and circle the correct picture.
Character's Clothes
Students see a small part of a character (a piece of clothing or body part). They guess which character the clothing/body part belongs to.
Schedule Tic-Tac-Toe
Using the classic game, kids practice school subjects, days of the week, and using both in the context of a sentence.
Uso Baseball
The students play a baseball-themed game where they describe themselves.
This Is A Game I Played
A simple speaking and listening Janken-focused sugoroku that has students say, "What's this?" "This is a ..." many times.
Hand Lines
Students discover their friends' future by reading the palm lines on their hands.
I'll Give You Game
Students pass around cards while saying "I'll give you ~." Those left holding the cards when the music stops are out!
Dot-to-Dot
Students listen to the teacher call out random numbers between 1-20 or 1-100 to complete dot-to-dot handout(s).
Prepositions of Place
This game teaches the students to hear prepositions of place: on, above, below, in front of, etc. The students listen and try to draw an image of a room that is described by the ALT.
My Country Tis Of Thee
Students make their own country while practicing possessives.
Conditional Auction
Sentences are auctioned off to students and they must say if the sentence is grammatically correct.
Feel Well
This activity is based on the doctor visit dialog in New Horizon's English textbook, but this one is more entertaining and it teaches various names of illnesses.
Answer Me Bingo
This is a group Jeopardy game mixed with a flavor of Bingo.
Passive Beginnings
This information gap game is pretty self-explanatory.
Original Juice
Students decide on a recipe, then go shopping for ingredients to make their very own Original Juice.
Luck Time
A dice game practicing time and numbers.
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