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Space Invaders: Students review various grammar points while students take pop-shots at alien invaders drawn on the chalkboard.
Spoon Race: A-balancing-a-marble-in-a-spoon race.
Spoons: Students try and collect a set of cards and then grab a spoon.
Soto Hunt: Students 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?
Sumo Vocab: Students battle out to see who is the Yokozuna of vocabulary.
Super Mario Review: This is essentially a board game that is made to look like an early Mario video game level.
Sweden: This is an activity for advanced 2nd years or 3rd year students. The handout teaches them about Sweden.
T&T: "T&T" stands for Tsunami and Typhoon, and it is a great review activity for any level students. The rules are easy and the game is as fun as the teachers and students make it.
Take or Give: This game can be used to practice any grammar point and requires minimal prep. It involves the students answering questions to get points. However, they don`t know whether the points are positive or negative until they decide to take them for themselves or give them to the other team.
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.
Text Message English: Internationalization! Let kids have fun deciphering English text message language.
Tongue-Twister Challenge: Students read tongue-twisters as fast as they can as many times as they can.
Translation Relay: Students compete in small groups to translate Japanese sentences into English, relay style.
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.
Typhoon: Students answer various English questions in hopes to choose a square from a grid and receive points while trying to avoid the evil typhoon squares.
Typhoon Pirates: This is basically a variation on the popular Typhoon Game point-scoring system here on Englipedia, except the theme in this activity is set around pirates. It can be used whenever a game requires some kind of point-scoring system.
UFO Attack!: Students must answer questions to move the UFO away from their base. Different grammar points can be used to help review current material.
Unmix!: Students unscramble a set of words and then use those words to play a simplified game of famous board game, Scrabble.
Verbal Concentration: Students take turn reading the card in their hand and trying to match it to the same card held by one other student in the classroom.
Word Finder: A simple yet addictive and competitive word finder game.
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.