Junior High School

Finger Twister

Students practice the days of the week by playing Twister using their fingers.

Sengoku Jidai PPT

A version of Sengoku Jidai made in Powerpoint. Instead of answers starting with the same letter as the prefecture, it has questions relating to the prefecture itself.

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'.

Secret Sentence

Students must use their powers of deduction to guess the hidden sentence on the board.

Printable alphabet themed wordsearch

A set of wordsearches with a list of words relating to each letter of the alphabet (work in progress)

Spongy Intros

The aim of this worksheet is to help 1st graders practice self-introductions and understand its format structure.

How To Get Around School

This lesson should be used as a review activity AFTER the students already know how to ask and express directions.

Is There Any Milk?

This is an activity to practice using countable and non-countable nouns.

Zapper Zoo

A write and race powerpoint game. Useful for review.

Whose ~ is it?

Students listen to the ALT and JTE's conversation using possessive grammar and write what they heard.

Actionnaire

Students practice saying prepositional sentences and watch them come true right in front of their eyes.

Trip Diary

Students write about their class trips.

Janken, Change, Retire

Students work in pairs to answer two questions in order for their pair to retire from the game.

You Look Happy

A 50-minute team-oriented practice of adjectives using a "You look..." sentence formation.

Imperative Blindfold Drawing

Shout out the imperative your blindfolded teammate is trying to draw before anyone else to gain a point for your team.

Omikuji Fortune Telling

Students draw fortunes (omikuji) from different categories to determine their futures!

Memory (Card Game)

Like the classic game memory, but with pictures and words. Pattern practice for -er comparatives.

100 Yen Shop

Students guess which items are 100 yen or antiques.

3 Cats

Students practice (or are introduced to) plural nouns by finding easy words in a word search, then reporting how many of each word they have found.

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.

Introducing Characters

Students mingle and exchange character cards whilst introducing the characters to their friends. The aim is to try to find out the relationship of as many characters as possible within 8 minutes.

Household Chores

Students do a survey in class to see how often they help their mother around the house.

Bus Directions

Students work at a hotel front desk giving "customers" written directions to various sites around the city using a bus route map. (Review of New Crown 2 & 3 We're Talking 1)

Preposition Pictionary

This game is played like you would Pictionary, except all the cards are in the form of prepositions.

Doink

In this fast-paced gesture game, students throw a Doink ball around the room acting out various adjectives.

May I Take Your Order?

Students act as waiters, playing janken and taking orders to see who can make the most money in this quick and easy to set up game!

Remember

Students aim to remember multiple "May/Could I ~" sentences.

Best Sentence

A judge will decide after hearing each slip of concluding sentences which one is the funniest or most interesting.

Fruit Basket "Have You Ever...?"

A fun game played with a circle of students in chairs.

Flash Card Telepathy Game

I usually use this to practice school subjects and week days

Would You Like To Interview

Students try to ask 16 other students "Would you like to..." questions.

Dice Station

A group game where students take turns calling out stations and giving directions while trying to win points.

Take the Train Game

Board game to practice "Change trains at _____" "Get off at ______ station." "Take the _______ line."

Greetings Board Game

Somewhere in the 1st year textbook, students have to learn how to give reactions and learn appropriate responses. This is a fun game for students to practice responses as they try to win the game.

Can I Play Janken?

Students try to get bingo by asking for favors/permission using 'Can you/Can I...' questions.

Can you find the picture in the textbook?

Students search their textbook for pictures that match the criteria and then write a quiz for their classmates.

Gesture Quiz Game

I usually use this gesture game to introduce present continuous.

What are animals doing GAME

A point get game for practicing the present progressive.