Tag

Elementary School

Aimed at elementary school students.

  • Cute Hand-drawn Phonics Chart (A-Z)

    A bright and cute hand-drawn phonics sheet covering the letters of the alphabet.

  • Clothes Pin Dodgeball

    Students who hit the other team with the ball try to guess the day of the week on their back.

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    Students wear "crowns" with picture/word flash cards on them and walk around trying to figure out what they are wearing.

  • ABC Snakes And Ladders

    Alphabet Snakes and Ladders helps students recognize the letters of the Alphabet, review colors, and learn the vocabulary that goes with each letter.

  • Brush ABC

    Fast paced recognition game to learn the alphabet.

  • Birthday Lineup

    Students line up along a wall. Using English they order themselves from the student with the earliest birthday to the student with the latest birthday.

  • Do Freeze

    Students walk around and suddenly 'freeze' when the music stops.

  • Small Talk

    A dialogue modeled by the ALT and HRT or JTE and then mimicked by the students

  • World Race

    Students practice speaking English and countries' name while they move around the world.

  • Ready For Speech

    Make public speaking and introductions fun.

  • Memory Round

    Students listen to the subjects their classmates like to study and memorise.

  • Castles

    Students compete in rows to destroy magnetic castles and capture flags in a quiz style game.

  • Time Hunters

    Students travel around game board collecting times on their cards for various daily routine verbs.

  • Guess The Number

    Students have to try to guess a number from within a set range. The less guesses, the more the points.

  • Totally Awesome Subjects and Days Game

    This uses a 5 x 5 game to practice days and subjects

  • Animal Jeopardy

    Students practice saying various animals by choosing can't-be-seen cards from a Jeopardy-formatted chalkboard.

  • Portrait (Funny Drawing Activity)

    This activity can be used as a practice for "How many ~?" lesson. Students have a good laugh at their final outputs. Activity can be done by pair or small groups.

  • My Sign Book

    Students introduce themselves and collect signs from other members of the class

  • STORY TIME

    Three powerpoint stories for very young classes

  • Shape Uno

    Students play the famous UNO card game while practicing saying the names of ten shapes in English.

  • Blindfold Direction

    A blindfolded student is guided by his peers to his chosen destination.

  • Cross it Out

    A quick activity useful for practicing simple questions and answers. I usually use it for 'What's this?'

  • Drawing Challenge

    A short activity for practicing simple be verb sentences

  • Paper Airplane Introductions

    Students read a self-introduction from one of their classmates, then the class guesses which student it's from.

  • Magic Numbers

    This card trick will leave your students breathless but it only works if they know how to spell numbers 1-10.

  • Catch

    Students practice imperatives by catching or not catching a tennis ball.

  • Number Train

    This listening activity is for helping students catch the difference between "teen" and "ty" at the end of numbers.

  • Fast Touch

    Students race to be the fastest to touch the body part explained by the ALT.

  • Canada Quizzes

    Three choice quizzes I use when first start at schools. Might be useful for other ALTs from Canada.

  • Shapely Animals

    Students draw animals using the shapes they are taught. This is a very easy and basic activity which teaches students to recognize shapes in animals.

  • Alphabet Mistakes

    Guess what letters are not correct and fix them.

  • Pairs Janken Snake

    This game helps students practice vocabulary or English sentences. It is a general game that can be used for ES or JHS lessons.

  • Bananaman

    Students go round asking their friends "Do you like bananas?" in order to find 8 hidden bananamen.

  • I Spy

    Children play a simplified version of "I Spy" while reviewing colours.

  • After C

    This is a simple alphabet order game where students must say what is before/after the letter you say.

  • Parfait Buffet

    Students get into groups and compete to make the most or best parfaits.

  • A-E-I-O-U Bingo Song

    While singing along to the Bingo song, students sing the English vowels and practice giving their self-introductions.

  • 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.

  • Alphabet Order War

    Students stategically play alphabet cards in hopes to gain the most cards.

  • How Much Shopping

    Students ask "How much is~?" to find out the prices of the items in this info gap activity.

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