Tag

Critical Thinking

Develops students' critical thinking skills.

  • They/them as singular pronouns

    A simple introduction via PowerPoint to show several ways in which we use "they" and "them".

  • Airplane Crash

    An activity to practice the "There is / There are" grammar by having the students search an airplane crash site.

  • Weird Festivals!

    "Is there a _______ festival?" (insert weird festival)

  • Fix the Sentence

    Students must correct sentences to review the Indirect Question grammar (Q-word + to or plain Q-word) and other grammar points. Ex: "I know how to make sushi." or "I know where the ALT lives."

  • Year 3 - Would you ? Pair Interview

    Students play Janken and answer would you questions.

  • Man Wrestling a Shark

    A picture to use for making reduced relative clause questions/sentences (ex. Where is the man wrestling a shark?)

  • Thief

    A game/activity to practice "Does" questions and answers.

  • Let's Talk About Smartphones

    Students learn some useful phrases regarding smartphones, and then they write about if they think smartphones are good or bad.

  • JHS Shopping

    Shopping New Crown 1 7 eleven and Amazon Quiz (Prices Updated)(Edit)

  • Could you tell me how to get to Fukuoka Airport?

    This Ppt/worksheet is for the Year 3 Sunshine textbook for giving directions, although it could probably be modified for other textbooks.

  • Picture Sentence Matching

    A game to practice the "Question words + to-infinitive" grammar (for ex. "how to" or "where to").

  • Bomb

    Bomb activity to practice any Yes / No question type grammar points.

  • Story

    Students piece together a story while practicing grammar from the semester / year. Students read, write, listen, and speak in this activity.

  • You Make the Rules! (have to/must)

    Students pretend they're the leader of the school and can change any school rules they want!

  • Jeopardy Unit Review

    Jeopardy game show style PowerPoint to review multiple grammar and vocabulary from different lessons in various question format. Best used to review before a unit test.

  • Pokemon Evolution Was Were

    Use different pokemon evolutions to have the students practice "was" and "were."

  • 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."

  • Guess the Doraemon character

    Students read descriptions of Doraemon characters (who have different names in English) and try to guess what their original Japanese names are.

  • Past Simple Mystery Game "Who Dunnit"

    A "Who Dunnit" game where the class are detectives and interview five students to solve a mystery

  • Martin Luther King Jr Crossword

    Martin Luther King Jr Crossword

  • Translate the untranslatable

    Students try to explain Japanese words that don't have any simple English equivalents.

  • The Ogasawara Islands - Word search

    This is a word search using the story about The Ogasawara Islands

  • "I think" game and writing

    Students practice expressing their honest opinions with "I think" while playing a game and then writing about what they said during the game.

  • World Weird Festivals

    This activity can be a sort of quiz game for the students while practicing the "I think (that)... sentence pattern. Though it can be used with any other grammar lessons, like verb tenses.

  • Agree Writing Practice

    Students practice writing why or why not they agree with certain controversial statements.

  • Guess How Many

    Students go to different stations in the classroom and try and guess how many items are in a bag/container at each station.

  • 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."

  • What's In The Bag

    Students ask yes/no questions about something hidden in a bag until they guess it.

  • Weekend Diary

    Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.

  • True Or False

    Students listen and decide whether various sentences are true.

  • Land Of The Blind

    Students work in pair teams; one blindfolded while the other issues commands to move around the room and avoid getting caught by the Oni (Devil) team.

  • Pyramid Game

    Students have to think of English words, phrases and sentences in order to help other students understand the mystery word.

  • Christmas Blast Power Point Game

    This is a template that I made that can be filled in to make a review game for almost anything. Since the questions are able to be customized, this power point can work at any level.

  • Halloween Jeopardy

    Jeopardy game to help your students learn about the ancient Halloween mysteries.

  • What do you think about drones?

    Students read a short passage about drones and write their opinions on how they should be used.

  • Corrections

    Help your students avoid and learn from common mistakes by having them correct sentences.

  • Class Rules

    Students practice "must" and "must not" by thinking about the rules of various classes in English.

  • Plural noun spelling category guessing

    Students try to intuit why some words in English end their plural form with -es.

  • Odd One Out

    Students practice explaining reasons by quizzing each other with lists of four items - which one of them is the odd one out?

  • Collaborative review of New Crown 1

    This is a review of the first 40 pages of NC1. A collaborative lesson where all members of each group have a role. Students need to work together to complete the task.

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