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Fun Riddle: "Can you make a correct English sentence that has the word ‘because’ three times in a row?"


This is a group Jeopardy game mixed with a flavor of Bingo.
 
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.
 
Team game where students try to make a line across the board.
 
Students gamble on their ability to correct English sentences.
 
Students work in teams to match countries with their corresponding flags. 
 
Students formulate questions and aim to accumulate as many signatures as they can in an amount of time.
 
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 create hilarious stories by filling in missing verbs, adjectives and nouns based upon the classic stories of Cinderella and Momotaro, the Japanese version of Disney’s James and the Giant Peach.  
 
Students learn a song over a period of time to do as a warm-up.
 
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 write a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
Students practice reading the basics of an English newspaper.  This activity is best suited for 3rd grade students.
 
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?

 

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.

 

Space Invaders

Students review various grammar points while students take pop-shots at alien invaders drawn on the chalkboard.

 

Sumo Vocab

Students battle out to see who is the Yokozuna of vocabulary.

 

Sweden

This is an activity for advanced 2nd years or 3rd year students. The handout teaches them about Sweden.

 

Text Message English

Internationalization! Let kids have fun deciphering English text message language.

 

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. 

 

Unmix!

Students unscramble a set of words and then use those words to play a simplified game of famous board game, Scrabble.

 

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.


Worksheets Without Explanations
Game BoardsPeopleMoney Misc. 

Amaze

  

Famous People

 

BubbleBoy - Money

 

Useful Classroom English 

 

English Adventure

 

Biographies (easy)

BubbleBoy - Yen 

Park Life

Block Jumping 

 

Biography (medium)

Fake Dollars 

 

Beach Description

 

Tortoise & Hare

 

Biographies (hard) 

 

Spot the Differences 

 

Windy

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: "In the dictionary, 'apple' comes before 'because', because 'because' begins with a 'B'."