Safe Cycling
Students learn about cycling laws in Japan with a quiz game!
Classroom Commands
A poster for your classroom to help your students remember what you are telling them to do!
Speed Speak
A student and their partner both hold up a card with pictures, and they have to race each other to make a sentence first.
Guess Who
Inspired by the old board game Guess Who, students try to guess who their partner is before their partner guesses who they are. Grammar point used: present progressive
Comparative/Superlative Bingo
Students play Bingo by walking around the room and asking their classmates questions. Grammar points used: ~er than, ~est, as ~ as
Freestyle Othello
Students play an Othello-inspired game while practicing relative pronouns with a partner.
They/them as singular pronouns
A simple introduction via PowerPoint to show several ways in which we use "they" and "them".
Sunshine Year 3 Project 8 Writing Rubric
A rubric for writing an essay about a Japanese event or festival.
Family Tree Game
In groups, students listen to questions from the ALT about family members in a family tree and race to answer the question correctly. This is for the "who" grammar point.
Tic-Tac-Toe
Students practice speaking the grammar point while playing tic-tac-toe with a partner.
Uno Cards
Who doesn't love card games?
Let's Talk About Smartphones
Students learn some useful phrases regarding smartphones, and then they write about if they think smartphones are good or bad.
Ordering Fast Food
These are cards to help students practice ordering fast food in English. This is for the Sunshine Year 2 textbook. Phrases used: "May I", "Would you like", and "I'll have"
Where's the basketball?
A spin-off of the classic game "Guess Who". There are 16 different rooms. The students have to figure out which room their partner chose by asking "where is/are" questions.
Could you tell me how to get to Fukuoka Airport?
This Ppt/worksheet is for the Year 3 Sunshine textbook for giving directions, although it could probably be modified for other textbooks.
Staff Room English
This is for students to use when they come to the staff room and you're the only teacher in there.
Will you dance?
This is a janken-style game where students ask each other "will you" questions and get points for completing the action (social distancing). This could also work for Can you, Could you, etc.
Candy Jar Quiz (how many)
(social-distancing-friendly) Students compete to correctly guess how many pieces of candy are in a jar using a PowerPoint.
"What do you ~?"
A speaking and writing review worksheet for practicing "What do you usually ~?" with prepostional phrases.
You Make the Rules! (have to/must)
Students pretend they're the leader of the school and can change any school rules they want!
