Develops students' critical thinking skills.
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
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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