Aimed at elementary school students.
What Do You Like - Guess Who
Students practice asking and answering "What ___ do you like?" while testing how well they know their classmates in this "guess who" acitivity.
Horizontally Challenged
Students race their teams’ animals horizontally across the chalkboard by answering questions asked by you. However, the added excitement comes from the mysterious bonus and pitfall cards.
Neighborhood Race
Blindfolded kids are guided by their teammates through a map to find a place. This game uses the directions: right, left, up, down, back and stop.
Doctor Dodgeball
Students play Japanese dodgeball in a civil manner by destroying each other with polite words.
Bridge
Students try to race across the Vocab Bridge to the opponent’s side. This game is also known as "Snake Line" or "Janken Line".
Simon Says
A game in which students perform actions according to the teacher's commands, but only if the command is followed by the phrase, "Simon says."
Go Fish
Students walk around playing Janken and asking for target vocabulary cards.
Sentence Making Relay
Students try to make passive sentences from sheets over paper located on the walls of the classroom.
Spontaneous Interviews
Students aim to complete the interview task using the grammar point.
Characters Calling
This activity is to help students get familiar with speaking on the phone and inviting their friends out.
MRI Quiz
A cool creepy looking quiz for practicing 'What's this?'
Alphabet Shopping
This is a shopping game using uppercase letters, the aim of which is to have children familiarise themselves with the letters in a non-patterned way.
Slap My Hand
Students practice saying the months or days while trying to stay in the game.
Week Time Race
Each student in turn says one day of the week in order. The class races to beat their time.
Printable playing cards
If you don't want to spend money on a bunch of card decks, print these out instead!
Sum Of 21
Students practice counting from 1-20 with a deck of cards.
Who am I? Quiz
A three-hint-quiz type of game where students have to guess the character being described. Perfect activity for We Can! 2 Unit 3 "He is Famous. She is great."
Zombies
Students become zombies to practice "I like ___.", "I like ___ too" and/or "I don't like ___.
Oh No! 100!
A worksheet to go with a simple counting game
Are you fine SIGN GAME
simple sign game to practice feelings
Under the Sea / Forest Creatures / Stuff on a Desk
A couple of posters with lots of things to practice 'how many do you see?'
Memory Book
A powerpoint activity for practicing 'how many' and plural forms.
Doraemon Is My Brother
Students take a character card and roll a dice and say a sentence based on the outcome, e.g. "This is Godzilla, he is my dad."
Hidden Numbers Challenge
Find the hidden numbers and practice speaking them.
I Want To Be
Students exchange in a simple English question/answer conversation in a bid to gain or lose points.
Cutting Classes
Students A and B each have half of a school map. They play Janken in a race to finish their map.
Body Builder
Students learn how to recognize body parts by speaking and drawing the parts.
Emotion Basket
This is an activity for brand new students. It should make them more confident with their speaking.
You Have
Get students predicting and practicing "you have" in this rhythmical one-on-one game.
What Day Is It?
This is a simple fun game for practicing days of the week.
Family Tree
This is a fill-in-the-missing-blanks race game.
Animals from Around the World
A sleek and simple cultural presentation showing off various animals that are unique to (or native to) specific countries around the world.
Colour Scavenger Hunt
Help students practice their colours and the names of places around the school with this fun game.
Baba Vader
This is your basic Baba Nuki or Old Maid game with a Darth Vader twist.
Inside Outside Circles
Students practice answering and asking questions while moving around in circles to music.
This/That Memory
Students use a memory card game to practice Demonstrative Pronouns (this/that).
T & T
"T & T" stands for Tsunami and Typhoon, and it is a great review activity for any level students. The rules are easy and the game is as fun as the teachers and students make it.
Mr. Bump
Blindfolded students are guided through an obstacle course while listening to their partner's directions to avoid 'dangerous' desks.
Dicey Months
Two teams line up side by side and call out the month corresponding to the numbers on the dice.
Foods from Around the World
A sleek and simple cultural presentation showing off traditional and famous foods from countries around the world.
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