Choose Their Adventure
A choose your own adventure type story that uses the "Let" and "Make" causative verbs. Large focus on reading. Inspired by Pusheen's Adventure.
Festivals
Students work in pairs to "think" about interesting festivals/events from around the world
Travel the World
Students decide on a country they want to visit and why they want to visit it. Practices the "want to" and "to (reason)" grammars.
Japanese Folktales
An activity to practice the "SVOO + that" grammar using some famous Japanese folktales. Ex: He told me "that" the news was interesting.
Breaking News
Students work in pairs to write an interesting news report using either "going to" or "will."
Passive Voice Quiz
Passive voice quiz questions that can be used with the first time students are learning the passive voice grammar.
Comparison Competition
Students compete to make the best sentence they can for an adjective. Grammar used includes ~er, ~est, more, most, and as ~ as.
Teacher's Childhood
Students write many sentences to guess what various teacher's childhoods were like. This uses past tense ~ed (and irregular verbs, but not necessary).
More and Most Trivia Quiz
A 15 question trivia quiz that uses only more and most. Students are in pairs and think then write and read their answers.
Comparing Pokemon
An activity in which students compare pokemon. This can be used for any of the comparison or superlative grammars: ~er, ~est, more, most, as ~as.
Monster Hunter
A review game in which students answer questions and hunt monsters. A very simply made powerpoint.
Movie Star
Movie making activity to practice the relative pronoun "who." (Ex: He is a student who likes English.)
My Room
A room drawing activity to practice the "There is / There are" grammar.
Airplane Crash
An activity to practice the "There is / There are" grammar by having the students search an airplane crash site.
Fix the Sentence
Students must correct sentences to review the Indirect Question grammar (Q-word + to or plain Q-word) and other grammar points. Ex: "I know how to make sushi." or "I know where the ALT lives."
Man Wrestling a Shark
A picture to use for making reduced relative clause questions/sentences (ex. Where is the man wrestling a shark?)
Thief
A game/activity to practice "Does" questions and answers.
Boston T Map
A modified map, and powerpoint of the Boston T (train system in Boston) to practice New Horizon Daily Scene 4 - giving directions.
Save the Patient
A short repetition activity to practice "Do I have to ~" and "Have to~." This activity might not work with classes larger than 25 students.
Emotion Dialogue
A dialogue making activity to practice the "emotion + to infinitive" grammar (ex. "I was happy to hear that.")
