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.
Weather Chat
To complete a weather map of Japan, students interview each other.
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.
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.
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.
Farm
Students practice saying various animals and colors by placing them on a giant farm.
Can I Play Janken?
Students try to get bingo by asking for favors/permission using 'Can you/Can I...' questions.
Continuous Guessing
This is a Guess Who-style game using cards and point tokens.
Invite Me Baby
Students aim to understand the grammar and form a free dialogue around various questions.
It's About Christmas
A Christmas-themed worksheet activity where students learn Christmas vocabulary and create sentences with prepositional phrases.
