Junior High School

Lets Janken

This is a simple game that has students make "let's" sentences and enjoy playing janken.

Nought And Crosses

Students play noughts and crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe) and command their partner to do an action.

Why Dont We Interview

Activity sheet for groups of 3

Student Examples

Students answer questions about what other students are doing.

I Am From

Students introduce which country they are from based upon the flag they are holding.

Make A Newspaper

Make a front page to a newspaper.

Have They Finished Yet?

Students read and answer questions about Baymax and Mikasa's schedule using the present prefect to answer the questions.

Infinitive Poster Quiz

Paired students answer a quiz by listening to hints and competing for points. Following this, they write long answers.

Move The Baton

Students race in groups to figure out the gesture the teachers perform.

Give Away

Students scramble to try and give their tickets to friends based on the teacher's directions.

How Many Pencils Do You Have?

Students write "I have ~ pencils/erasers/etc" sentences. Then they ask each other "How many ~ do you have?" questions.

Doctor Patient Interview

Students take turns being doctor and patient, and interview each other following the dialogue on the worksheet.

Translation Relay

Students compete in small groups to translate Japanese sentences into English, relay style.

Quick & Easy "Can You...?"

This quick game is used to get students to practice saying "Can you...?" questions and responses.

Winter Break Bingo

Students ask each other if they did different activities over Winter Break. If the answer is "yes," they sign their names under the activity. The first student to have a Bingo wins.

Character Looks

Students try to guess what character their partner is by using "Do you look ___?" questions.

Puzzle Scramble

This is a very flexible template for you to make sentence scramble lessons with puzzles. Students solve a puzzle and flip over the pieces to find a sentence.

Do or Don't

Students practice the Imperative by completing a worksheet.

Listening Bingo

A fun and challenging listening-based bingo game.

Country Race

Students race to find the spellings of each country and report it to their partner.

England Time

To find out what time it is in the nine countries listed.

I Think That (Q&A)

Students write their opinions on various people/things and then interview other students.

Cooking Hello Kitty

Students work in teams to read a crazy part-sentence, draw it and report back to the ALT/JTE.

Can I Use Your Battleship?

Can I use your battleship? Let students practice many "Can I use your..." sentences and have fun playing the classic Battleship game.

Can Fail Sentence Race

This activity has students making can/can't sentences using funny pictures that really emphasize the ability meaning of the can verb.

Mario Board Game 2.0

Students write their opinions about certain topics and ask their friends their opinions while playing a fun Mario board game. Adaptable to different grammar points.

I Have Played Nintendo For 25 Years

Students write 3 true statements and 1 false statement about their lives using present perfect tense. Other students must guess which is the false statement.

Future Deductions

Students try to uncover their partner's secret animal based upon deductive reasoning using future tense questions.

Whose Introduction

Students fill out a worksheet about themselves. The class has to match the worksheet (likes/dislikes/activities) to the student.

Find The Couple

This is a simple activity where students ask each other passive-voiced questions to find out which two students on their worksheets are a couple.

Kantan Interview

Kantan means easy. Students interview two boys, girls and teachers to complete their questionnaire worksheet.

You Will Get Your Fortune

Students ask ALT and JTE for their fortunes by picking one out of three cards.

This/That Relay

Students race to make sentences using visual clues.

My Dream School

Students create their own school virtual school along with their dream rules.

Can You Find A Pair

Students ask each other "Can you..." questions until they find their pair.

5 W's & H

Students practice asking and answering questions using the 5Ws and H question words.

Relative Pronoun Matching

A find your partner game where students use slips of paper to complete a relative sentence.

Fairy Tale Mad Libs

Students create hilarious stories by filling in missing verbs, adjectives and nouns based upon the classic stories of Cinderella and Momotaro, the Japanese version of Disney

Connect A-B-C

Review the order of the alphabet with a simple but challenging activity.

Memory Challenge

This activity has two parts: 1.) Students aim to remember a series of sentences, 2.) Students use the grammar and a constructed picture to describe a holiday scene to their class.