This is a battleship game for praticing 3rd person singular pronouns.
Students practice asking and answering questions using the 5ws and H.
While asking yes/no questions, students must guess who you are within 10 questions.
This warm-up or time-killer game tests the students on the meaning. It helps bring about awareness of vocabulary they may already know, as well as introduce new vocabulary.
This is a group Jeopardy game mixed with a flavor of Bingo.
Students wander around the classroom trying to find a curable doctor.
Students complete a worksheet based upon matching adjectives with their corresponding nouns.
Students watch an episode of Mr. Bean and use this as a way to access both culture and recent grammar points.
In this base-stealing, English-ball hitting, lightening-fast answering game of baseball, students answer questions for a chance to run around the bases with the goal of reaching home plate.
Using Celine Dion’s love song, students play bingo listening for past tense verbs in the song.
Students race descriptive bedroom sentences down their row in hopes to be the fastest to draw the sentence on the chalkboard.
Students listen to their partner's instructions and attempt to draw a replica of a bedroom.
Play a Japanese favorite Fruit Basket game using the ‘be’ verb.
Parts of pictures are shown to students and they try must form questions in order to guess at the complete pictures.
Students play bingo and janken while practicing the grammar point ‘how many ~ ?”
Students practice lying while saying the months of the year.
This is an interview-style activity where the students ask each other questions in this style and write them down to create somewhat odd and random sentences.
These phonics lessons were specifically designed for Japanese JHS students. They are pretty cool!
This mind-bender game can be a little challenging at first but great fun when kids catch on.
Students practice imperatives by catching or not catching a tennis ball.
Students take turns being reporters and writers in this fast-paced and deliciously confusing interview game.
Students work together to interview one another (including the alt) and fill out the worksheet.
Sentences are auctioned off to students and they must say must say if the sentence is grammatically correct.
Students gamble on their ability to correct English sentences.
Students work in teams to match countries with their corresponding flags.
This works very well for reviewing WH-questions. The students have a chance to talk to everyone in the classroom by asking and answering questions.
Students work in groups to respond to commands from the teacher and formulate appropriate responses.
Students tell their friend's future by randomly selecting people, places and things they want, then narrowing the possibilities until one is left in each category.
Students apply their knowledge of the days of the week to a listening task.
Students listen to a student-friendly article on happiness and fill-in the missing words. Then, they complete a comparative worksheet followed by a class discussion about other various ‘happy’ topics.
Students aim to collect as many points as they can by asking questions to discover the object the teacher secretly chose.
This is a simple warm up game for revising numbers. They have to try to guess the number from within a set range. The less gueses the more the points.
Students practice listening and speaking skills of the targeted grammar.
Students play Karuta while practicing pronouns.
Students play bingo using the grammar, 'Have you ever ~ ?'
Students develop their own skit, practicing the grammar and situation of having a guest
The students are given a plane crash scenario and they must choose objects from the crash to carry with them to survive.
A ice-breaking bingo game for 1st year JHS students that practices the 'do' helping verb.
You and the JTE are homestay parents. Students receive Japanese sentences and their goal is to communicate the sentences to the parents using whatever communicative tools in their arsenal. This activity teaches students that translating something perfectly is not as important as they are led to believe.
Students race their teams’ animals horizontally across the chalkboard by answering questions asked by you. However, the added excitement comes from the mysterious bonus and pitfall cards.
Students review 1st year grammar points by playing Janken and finding their horoscopes. This activity is mainly created for students to practice speaking, so therefore writing their answers in complete sentences is good but not necessary.
This lesson should be used as a review activity AFTER the students already know how to ask and express directions.
How to Interview Students work at completing their interview sheet, and also working on evaluating their own learning.
Students practice constructing sentences using two simple present tense verbs while playing a huge game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
This fast-paced activity has the students working in pairs figuring out partial pictures of various objects. It can be adapted to fit 3 different grammar points: demonostrative pronouns, copular verbs and 'what' questions.
Students work in groups to fill in the worksheet on where stuff is in.
I am CardsStudents aim to practice the parts of a self-introduction so that they understand it is as separate entities.
Kids in the class think of other classmates who they know and then write down certain characteristics of them. Then, they stand up at the front of class and see if their classmates can guess who they are talking about.
Students listen to sentences spoken by the ALT/JTL and must do whatever they are told.
Students try to guess their partner’s drawing then write their answer on their worksheet.
Students write a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.
Students close their eyes and imagine the story you tell them. Upon opening their eyes, they complete a worksheet based upon their imagination.
Inaka means rural. Armed with the class’ trashcan and scratch paper to use as the basket and basketball, students accrue points by answering English questions in hopes to try their luck in Inaka Basketball!
These are two activities which help students practice gerund form of verbs. Following a student-to-student interview, students work in groups and play charades.
This three-step activity ranges from fill-in-the-blank of Brandy’s Have You Ever?, forming past participle questions to ask other students and finishes with the students asking both teachers strategic questions to illicit specific questions.
This is an activity to practice using countable and non-countable nouns.
An information gap activity where students ask their partner to work out the pictures on the worksheet.
Invite Me BabyStudents aim to understand the grammar and form a free-dialogue around asking polite questions.
I Wanna TelephoneStudents play a telephone line game while practicing the 'want to call' grammar point.
This activity uses Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away as a warm-up to segment into a bingo interview game and finally a writing exercise.
J-Pop ComparisonsThis 2-step activity introduces students to comparisons using Japanese musicians.
Students have to complete a series of seven puzzles in order to figure out the secret sentence.
Students learn to hear the difference between katakana pronunciation and REAL English by playing this fast paced card game.
In this fun, loud and communicative game students pick chopsticks to decide who gives the orders and who has to follow them.
Like the old college drinking game, students draw a card and receive a challenge. Based upon whether they can complete the challenge, they can receive or lose points.
Students show off their artistic skill and practice speaking.
This a whole lesson devised on scaffolding students through the comparitive grammar point.
Students write according to the worksheet. A good follow-up for any lesson in this unit.
Paired students must look at a picture of a given room and ask the other “How many ______ do you have?”
Students work in groups to formulate sentences about a series of pictures.
Loving the Gerunds
Students practice the usage of gerund sentences by listening and writing.
Students get a chance to practice speaking and interacting with ALT/JTE by challenging their quick response to random questions.
This is a mathematical card trick that is good for introducing numbers and mystifying your students.
This card trick will leave your students breathless but it only works if they know how to spell numbers 1-10.
This is a drawing activity for Halloween that can be used to teach body parts and plurals.
Students use the target grammar to complete a matching exercise of great fun and educational value.
Match the WhoseStudents match the items to the people by practice listening and speaking.
May I Janken Out?Students interview each other and play janken. The point of the game is to try not to ‘Janken out’.
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.
Students practice the 'have to' grammar point while playing a board game and flipping fake money.
Students listen to where the objects are and then connect the dots to find the hidden animal.
Students try to make as many sentences as possible before completing a worksheet. This activity is good for struggling classes and/or as a first-time activity, following the introduction.
Students practice listening and solve puzzle.
Students interview one another about Japanese pop stars using irregular comparative sentences.
Students play as movie directors and choose their classmates for different roles. Then, they interview each other to find out what they want to do in the movie.
Students compete to finish climbing Mt. Fuji by playing janken and asking 'it...for...to...' questions.
This activity is a simple worksheet for reviewing simple past tense using what the students ate or drank for breakfast.
This information gap activity is fairly self-explanatory. Students work in pairs to complete the worksheet.
Students practice listening and saying ‘time’ questions and answers while looking at an exciting day’s schedule.
Students create their own school virtual school along with their dream rules.
This regular activity will help your students express themselves better.
This activity brings a new twist to the game Bingo while practicing spelling new target vocabulary words.
Students learn some English names and try to distinguish the male and female names.
This is a jazz chant to the melody of Frere Jacques. The melody is catchy and known among Japanese students so it is a good and short activity to introduce or review the third-person verb tense.
Nepal Foster Program
Students practice the four parts of learning by listening to an excerpt from their textbook and filling out the worksheet. If you don’t use New Horizon, don’t worry – see
Caution section for more details.
Students practice reading the basics of an English newspaper. This activity is best suited for 3rd grade students.
Milling activity where students are given an identity. And they mill about writing each others names and nicknames. Practice saying, "You can call me _____."
Students try to level-up their ninja abilities by creating comparative sentences to receive chances to shoot shurikens at a bullseye on the chalkboard.
Students practice imperative sentences by becoming 'kings' or 'slaves'.
Students review and learn new adjectives and then poll their classmates about different topics.
Outdoor ClassroomStudents think about their environment in English by GOING OUTSIDE! What’s this madness you speak of?!?! English is not something that is ONLY learned in the classroom. You need to experience it, too. What’s that you say? Entire civilizations run on this complicated form of communication?
Students use the grammar and information cards to make pairs and find their pet or owner.
Students discover their friends' future by reading the palm lines on their hands.
This information gap game is pretty self-explanatory.
Students read a series of 10 trivia questions in the past passive voice and choose the right answer.
This interview activity is your typical information gap partner activity that focuses on past progressive verbs.
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular paste tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
This is a simple game that practices 'whose' and borrowing the students' pens.
A fun debate game aimed at late 2nd-3rd graders for reviewing overall grammer, particularly 'X is bigger than Y', 'has' and 'can'. I like to encourage creative thinking and competition and this game really brings it out. Great for after a test!
A listening and speaking telephone number activity.
This is to introduce the short vowels. Each vowel builds on the next so students can hear the difference and hopefully say and write short words with short vowels correctly.
Here are more worksheets to quiz your students on the short vowels sounds.
Students race through a series of words by drawing the words and their teammates guessing.
Students chooses a point/ place on the map and make a set of directions. Then students will interview each other and find the hidden messages.
Students draw monsters while practicing body parts.
This activity works on Past Progressive Pairwork (was/were + verb'ing').
This fun card game uses Pokemon Top trumps to excite the students to practice and understand comparatives and superlatives.
R & R stands for Read & Race. Students work together in groups to gather the sentences around the room.
Students race to collect the lyrics around the room, then try to order the song lyrics.
Students practice understanding the grammar points by playing Jeopardy.
Students aim to remember multiple 'may/could I ~' sentences.
Students help rescue plan crash victims by locating them in a classroom and then writing a report to submit to the rescue authorities.
This is a review game that practices 7 grammar points. Students form grammar-specific sentences in order to complete levels and have a chance at extirpating cute little invaders, the round aliens!
Sagasu is Japanese for search. In groups of four, students must work together to complete a list of questions. They do this by searching out information about famous people that has been dumbed down to their English ability.
Save The City!
Students practice creating and saying present progressive verb sentences by choosing random names and verbs out of grab bags and forming sentences. Once their team has cleared a level, they can shoot at bombs gradually making their way down the chalkboard to the city below.
Scavenger Hunt
Students use the worksheet to review question forms, personal pronouns, and various verb forms learned over the course of the year.
School Rules
Students listen to a speech given about schools from the ALT’s country, fill out a T/F worksheet and finally write some rules of their own school.
School Trip
Students learn to buy what is necessary for their Mt. Fuji camping trip.
Scrabble
Each turn, each group of students receives seven cards. The students place these cards on the floor, forming a word. The next group must form a word from their cards that connects to the previous words.
Sentaku Poetry
This lesson is a follow up to the poetry studied in the 3rd Year textbook. It will teach the students the basics of how to write two types of poetry -- acrostic and persona. It is important to focus on the way that we structure poems in English; centred topics, and rules which guide composition.
Shall I?
You give them sentences. They perform the action.
Show Me Meaning
Students work on identifying the role of gestures in conveying meaning and their relationship to language.
Six Corners
Students receive character cards and must work together in the group to answer all the questions on their worksheets.
Space Invaders
Students review various grammar points while students take pop-shots at alien invaders drawn on the chalkboard.
Spelling Challenge
Students improve their spelling while having fun with English words.
Spontaneous Interviews
Students sit down next to random students and conduct a quick interview.
Star Interview Skit
The students write a skit. The premise is that one student is the 'interviewer' and the other student is the 'star'.
Story Time
Students utilize intreresting photographs to formulate a past tense story.
Summer Frolicking
Students interview others to learn about their friends’ summer break activities.
Summer in the Park
Students draw a detailed park picture based upon your prepositional sentences.
Sumo Vocab
Students battle out to see who is the Yokozuna of vocabulary.
Superhero Powers
Students write a description of a superhero and then try to draw their friend’s superhero.
Supply Count
Students must discover what is in their friends bags.
Surprise Origin
Students run around the classroom playing janken and discover where their classmates are from.
Suspect
A famous person(s) stole Kumi Koda’s (Japanese singer) cake from her locker. Students interview the famous people to uncover the culprit.
Sweden
This is an activity for advanced 2nd years or 3rd year students. The handout teaches them about Sweden.
Takuya Kimura's Best Friend
Students learn the usage of the past tense while investigating a Japanese musician from SMAP, Takuya Kimura.
Talking with Foreigners
Students use Japanese culture-based questions to stimulate conversation using different grammar points. This is not rehearsed or grammar specific, so students must think and culminate what they have learned and apply it to a conversational situation which they may come across in Japan.
Tangram Battle
Tangrams are Chinese puzzles. In this fast-paced game, students compete to be the first team to assemble a tangram. This activity stresses fluency over accuracy and focuses on prepositions of location.
Text Message English
Internationalization! Let kids have fun deciphering English text message language.
Thief!
Students compose a series of questions to try and guess the thief of the chocolate cake.
This Is a Worksheet
Students receive half of a sentence and they must write the missing relative clauses.
This That Relay
Students race to make sentences using visual clues.
Tic-Tac Bingo
Students practice listening to present perfect sentences while playing bingo according to questions the ALT/JTE ask.
Tonari Friends
Tonari means 'next to'. Students have a worksheet in front of them. Based upon your prepositional sentences, they must find each character.
Treasure Box
Students write their favorite objects on pieces of paper. After all the papers are collects, students must find their papers by using the target grammar.
Treasure Hunt
Using a map and clue cards, students give directions, write directions, and work in groups to find the hidden treasure within a fictional city.
Triple O
Students receive four vocabulary words. Once they figure which word doesn't belong, they write 1 sentence as to why the word doesn't belong.
True/False Betting
Have the students write a sentence about themselves that is true or false. Have the class bet on it. Win the money, go home happy etc.
Twisting Comparatives
Students practice correcting, rearranging and creating questions sentences that practice comparatives and superlative grammar points - bigger, stronger, etc.
Unmix!
Students unscramble a set of words and then use those words to play a simplified game of famous board game, Scrabble.
VerbS
Students learn how to read their teachers’ names in English and practice using verb plurals.
Want Me to Janken
Students race to translate sentences using the grammar pattern.
Was & Did
Working in pairs, one student gives their partners past tense and past participle questions while their partners search out two pictures across the room looking for the answers.
Washing His Face
Students practice using present progressive sentences and reviewing “who is ~” while playing a competition games in class.
Web Quest Challenge
The mission of this internet adventure is to complete a series of online challenges designed specifically for Japanese junior high school students.
What Janken
Students rotate partners, play janken, interview each other and embrace their artistic skills.
What's the Diff?
Students remember the placement of objects on a scene while practicing simple past tense verbs.
What the Hell
Students race to explain the pictures using the grammar point.
What Time Uno
Students enjoy playing Uno while practicing asking/telling the time.
When Adventures
Students use their imagination and creativity to make "when" + past tense continuous sentences. An example of a 'past tense continuous' verb is: was taking.
When I Conjunctions
Students make sentences using the conjunction 'when' and then play a game as a class.
When Is Your Birthday?
Students discover the month of their friends’ birthdays.
When TV Programs
Students use real materials to practice ‘when’ they watch their TV programs.
When You Janken Interview
Interview while playing Janken.
Where Am I
Students practice giving and receiving directions while playing Othello.
Which Bingo Out?
Students interview each other using the ‘which’ grammar point, and then play bingo. The goal of the bingo game is to NOT get bingo.
Who Are You
Students practice listening and writing using the visual guidelines and directives from the ALT.
Who That
Students practice speaking while finding the owner of various objects.
Willy Wonka
Students match cards to complete the puzzles after they watch the Willy Wonka movie.
Wish List
Students draw and write about presents they would like to receive for Christmas.
World Rally
Spice up that boring direction class with a little unadulterated racing goodness.
Writing Comics
This activity is for students who have a pretty good handle on English. It motivates students that otherwise wouldn't want to free-form write and makes for a short and fun writing activity.
Wrong Trousers, The
Students watch the film of the ‘Wrong Trousers’ with Wallace and Gromit and respond to some questions.