Junior High School

WHERE or WHEN Activities

Three activities to practice where or when with simple verbs

Whose hat is this?

A powerpoint quiz to practice possessive pronouns

Search The Textbook

This is a review game for New Horizon 2's textbook. Students are given questions and they must find the answers in their textbooks

Simon Says

A game in which students perform actions according to the teacher's commands, but only if the command is followed by the phrase, "Simon says."

Will You Phone Convo

Students write sentences and plug them into the phone conversation dialog.

Sentence Making Relay

Students try to make passive sentences from sheets over paper located on the walls of the classroom.

Gap It

This is a pair work, information gap activity to practice "What is this?" and the difference between "It's a..." and "It's..."

Spontaneous Interviews

Students aim to complete the interview task using the grammar point.

Characters Calling

This activity is to help students get familiar with speaking on the phone and inviting their friends out.

Janken Gestures

Students play rock-paper-scissors and practice the Classroom English vocabulary. This activity works best with Total English but fits with most textbooks.

Where Again

Good and easy speaking practice idea for students to work together to find out the locations of the items in their school.

Do you like baseball?

Students ask questions to each other; they don't want 'Yes' answers.

Who's This Woman?

Students create names for characters on the worksheet and then ask classmates, 'Who's this ~?' Then, students practice writing questions and answers.

Crazy Diary Entry

A writing activity that lets students make a crazy diary entry. Student then read their diary entry to the class for lots of fun.

The Guests

Students listen to a scary story and reach for an eraser when they hear the target word.

But Not Okinawa

Students test their knowledge of Japan's prefectures, minus Okinawa, and then practice asking about the location of the prefectures they don't know.

MRI Quiz

A cool creepy looking quiz for practicing 'What's this?'

Rescue 119

Students help rescue plane crash victims by locating them in a classroom and then writing a report to submit to the rescue authorities.

Simple But Great Bingo

Students listen to a story and write down words they recognize in bingo squares.

May I / Could you: activity worksheet

2 part worksheet for p28-29 of New Horizon 2.

PPP

This activity practices Past Progressive Pair work (was/were + verb'ing').

When Do You Have Plans?

Students invite each other to do things and write about their friends' plans in this speaking, listening, and writing activity.

Are You? Guessing Game

Guessing game where students will ask the questions and try to discover which character their partner has chosen.

Do You Have A Larger One?

Simple pair worksheet for shopping and using comparatives.

Printable playing cards

If you don't want to spend money on a bunch of card decks, print these out instead!

Sunshine 3rd year Program 2-3 Writing

Writing worksheets for students to write about a place they've either been to or want to go to.

This/That Animal

This is a speaking activity for the introduction and/or practice of the target sentence: "This/That is..."

Guess Who

Use prints of the fun board game "Guess Who" to practice the expressions, "Do you have ~?" and "Are you ~?"

Have you ____ today? Present Perfect guessing

Students practice the present perfect with words like "already," "just," and "not yet" through a character guessing game.

Summer Festivals Quiz

Summer Festival Quiz

Crazy Story

Students fill in a form then insert the info into a template to create a crazy story, then have a go at writing their own.

Calendar Tic-Tac-Toe

This game gets students to practice "It will be (sunny) on (July eighth).

Oh No! 100!

A worksheet to go with a simple counting game

Guess the Teacher - Pronouns

Students practice the pronouns "he" and "she" by quizzing their classmates about teachers at their school.

Menus

A collection of simple menus for role playing dialogues

Are you fine SIGN GAME

simple sign game to practice feelings

What's In The Bag

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

Did The ALT...?

Students ask the ALT questions using 'did' questions: "Did you eat breakfast yesterday?" Points are recieved for 'yes' responses.

I Have Never

Students play "Never Have I Ever" in lunch groups, then write about what they learned about their classmates.

Simple Present Self-Introduction

Students write their own self-introduction after learning "I (verb)".