Junior High School

Giving Excuses Flick the Eraser Game (Have to~)

This board game is a fun way to practice the target grammar, 'have to'. It is played in pairs.

Friendship Test

Students use indirect questions (間接疑問文) to quiz their classmates. Made for New Horizon 3, Unit 4.

Unit 3 NH2 Review

This is a review of Infinitives used in all Unit 3 lessons

English Conversation Practice Questions

This is a long list of English questions you can use for any reason! I use them to begin my classes and sometimes when I want to wander the hallways and ambush students with English conversation!

Have to~ Must (Schools around the World)

This is a PowerPoint guessing game about school rules in different countries.

Fun Crosswords and Wordsearches for extra time

Some fun themed crosswords and wordsearches that can be used to kill time etc.

Shichi Narabe Card Game

Sevens Card Game that can be used for JHS 2 "How + adjective! / What a + adjective + noun!" (unlisted grammar), JHS 1 “She looks sleepy / That sounds scary” and ES Y3 "What ____ do you like"

My Summer Vacation Verb/Sentence Practice

Worksheet to do after summer vacation to get the students writing again and thinking about how to talk about their summer experiences

Guess who game (Who is this?/ who ~)

A group based trivia activity that includes many character questions from the internet and the book. (Blue Sky 3 - Target 13)

I see/ I spy game (How many~)

A class based activity that is a question and answer format for the teachers and students. (Blue Sky 1 - Target 11)

gerunds practice

Simple worksheet for practicing -ing verbs.

Criss Cross Game

This is a good warm up and can be used with most grades for basically any lesson to help kids use target phrases.

Spelling Bee

An adaptation of NYT's Spelling Bee. Can be a worksheet or played on blackboard

New Horizon 3 Unit 3 Jeopardy!

This is a jeopardy game that I created for my third graders in junior high school. It's based on unit 3 in the New Horizon textbook.

English Board - Fun Facts Sections

Mini posters introducing alternative ways to say certain phrases or words.

Memory - Gerunds

Classic memory game where students match missing word cards with to the correct sentence cards.

Missing Vowels - NH2 Units 0-3

Group task challenge based on BBC show Only Connect.

Frequency Words Board Game

Students use dice to move along, they ask each other questions according to their placement, and their partners use of frequency verb is also dependent on a dice roll.

Let's play tag - or just 鬼ごっこ

An attempt at playing tag within a classroom but there's no running or touching. Practices prepositions (behind, in front of, between, near) and some school locations. For JHS 1 and maybe ES.

Anime Guessing Game - "What are they doing?"

A fun game great for practicing present continuous/progressive with 1st year Junior High School students using images of different anime characters.

He is~ She is~ Speaking activity

This activity can be a warm up activity or a practice speaking activity. This will help students practice speaking and make sentence with the information they have about a person.

September Calendar and Jewish Holiday Posters

There are some fantastic resources for September English boards. Still, I wanted to add information on the most important Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which land in September.

Could you tell me how to get to...

Activity based on page 63 of New Crown 3 - students use a map to travel around Kobe/Osaka/Kyoto

Question Board Challenge

-This is a question-and-answer board game for mid-level middle and high school. Students ask questions based on the answer they want instead of a set script and answer challenges for team points.

Weather Forecast (JHS 2年生)

A short presentation, worksheet and listening exercise about the weather forecast that ties into p56 of New Horizon 2

I Found Mewo! (Prepositions with Mewo Update)

An updated version of the "Prepositions with Mewo" PowerPoint with optional "hide and seek" activity with Mewo afterwards.

2 Truths, 1 Lie: JHS 1

A classic game you can edit to practice many grammar points! Students write truths and lies about themselves and then tell each other 2 truths and 1 lie. The listener must guess the lie!

September English Board

English board materials (trivia, vote, news, song of the month, calendar)

World News - Air Guitar Champion

English board - Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura won!

Loanwords

This is a game of association on loadwords for small group of JHS/HS students/English club.

Assassin

Anytime conversation-elimination game that requires no material preperation, but is immensly fun for students to play.

Kahoot COLLECTION

Many Kahoot activities separated into a variety of different categories: vocabulary lists, grammar, language trivia, around the world, etc.

Mario Kart English Race 🏎️ (Boardgame)

Great for reviewing a wide range of things (unit(s), Let's Talk, Enjoy Communication, a specific grammar point, etc.) in a Mario-Kart board game style.

Summer Vacation Conversation Activity

A 4-part activity with a game at the end to discuss what everyone did during summer vacation. Practices: Simple past (1st person and 3rd), forming questions, superlative, conversation.

CRAZY EIGHTS

This is a classic card game that is similar to UNO. With simplified rules, your students will be able to enjoy playing in no time at all!

NH3 (Units 1-3) Review Typhoon

Questions for the Typhoon Game to review New Horizon 3 Units 1 through 3.

The Little Prince (Mini book project)

This ia a final mini project that I did with my 2-nensei students when we had our lesson on The Little Prince on pp. 122-125, New Crown Textbook.

Let's make a pizza!

Students draw a pizza and write sentences about it.

Halloween: Make a Monster

Students roll a dice for random traits and must make a monster out of this.

Plan a Holiday

Students select a country card and must research and write about that country.