Aimed at elementary school students.
Uno Cards
Who doesn't love card games?
T-Shirt Design
The students practice asking 'What do you like?' and design t-shirts for their friends.
"What do you like?" Relay
A quick activity that requires no preparation. Get the students into groups and have them ask each other what they like, then race to draw it on the board.
Keyword Game - Social Distancing
This is a variation of the eraser grabbing keyword game commonly played throughout Japanese schools! Its a simple variation with no prep!
Let's Try One Lesson Five Vocabulary Practice
This is a powerpoint to help practice the vocabulary for this lesson. Useful for keyword game and teacher three choice quiz.
Bomb
Bomb activity to practice any Yes / No question type grammar points.
Gimme Gimme
An activity that has students running around to give you the item you ask for while practicing "This is / That is" and "Here you are."
SasadangoMan
Alternative Hangman activity
Let's Try What Time!
Powerpoint activities for let's try 2 lesson 4. Focus on teaching the vocabulary such as 'Wake-up time'
Stereo Game/ Shotoku Taishi
Group of kids speak/yell their target vocabulary while the rest of the class listens to them. The rest of the class must individually pick out who said what.
Yo Yes
A story about two people becoming friends.
Goodnight Gorilla
A story about a Gorilla freeing animals in the zoo.
Introductory Name card
Name card helpful for students and teachers as well
Crumpled Up Fun
This works very well for reviewing WH-questions. The students have a chance to talk to everyone in the classroom by asking and answering questions.
Time Maze
This activity combines the directions lesson with the time lesson, using a maze. Students have to try and acquire as many clocks as they can in a limited period of time.
Safe Zone
Players try to escape to the safe areas before they are tagged.
Phonics Worksheets
Students use simple phonics to read and match words to pictures.
Star Get Feelings
A powerpoint game to review feelings for Let's Try 1 Lesson 2
Cha Cha Slide
Fun class to practice various action words
Let's Try Weather and Play POINTS GET GAME
A 5 x 5 style game for Let's Try 2 Lesson 2.
Touch Command
Students play Janken and touch the body part listed on the card.
Daytona
Students race to see how fast they can introduce themselves to each other.
My Name is _____ Song and Worksheet ES
Practice writing name and saying "Hello. My name is ~ . What’s your name?”
Mario Phonics Review B and V
Powerpoint Game Warmups for reviewing contrasting phonic sounds B and V in a Mario Theme.
Typhoon
Students answer various English questions in hopes to choose a square from a grid and receive points while trying to avoid the evil typhoon squares.
Grabbing Guess
Students guess how many objects you have in your hand or a box.
Make A Face
Students connect numbers to the correct phrases and finally to the appropriate pictures.
'Be' Verb Fruit Basket
Students play the Japanese favorite Fruit Basket game using the verb 'to be'.
Printable alphabet themed wordsearch
A set of wordsearches with a list of words relating to each letter of the alphabet (work in progress)
Flash colours pairs memory game
*A twist on the classic memory game where you try to find matching pairs (and forgetting them 5 seconds later...)*
Paper Janken
Students practice asking and answering "Which is your favorite, A or B?" (or which do you like?) and play a modified version of janken.
Magical Cards
This is a mathematical card trick that is good for introducing numbers and mystifying your students.
Weather Chat
To complete a weather map of Japan, students interview each other.
Doink
In this fast-paced gesture game, students throw a Doink ball around the room acting out various adjectives.
Flash Card Telepathy Game
I usually use this to practice school subjects and week days
Farm
Students practice saying various animals and colors by placing them on a giant farm.
Oh No! Bingo
A tactical bingo game where bingo is bad. Students practice speaking as well as listening.
First Phonics Lesson
This game gets them to associate letters with word sounds by having students generate English words in various categories that start with specific letters.
Time And Weather
An information gap game where students ask each other the time and weather in different parts of the world.
Band Guess
Students try to guess the name of the band from pictograms.
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