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


A-K
Students whisper English sentence, write it down and post it on the chalkboard.
 
A racing game inspired by Mario Kart where any group, no matter how badly they are losing, can start winning at any moment, which keeps all groups attentive. This game can be used with most grammer points. Practices primarily listening and writing.
 
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.
 
A Judge will decide after hearing each slip of concluding sentences which one is the funniest or most interesting.
 
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.
 
Kids write a diary based on various nursery rhymes.
 
Students race to dictate a passage to their partners.
 
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 review basic phrases, greetings and responses while playing a Harry Potter themed board game.
 
Students race their team's animals horizontally across the chalkboard by answering questions asked by you. However, the added excitement comes from the mysterious bonus and pitfall cards.
 
Students make pairs and take turns asking each other questions to find out what the other student is thinking about.
 
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 match up activity, students try to match katakanized English with their real English spellings/words.
 
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.

L-S
Students listen to the song "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden, and fill in the blanks.
 
The students write a letter, addressed to themselves, to be opened at a later date.
 
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
 
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 practice reading the basics of an English newspaper.  This activity is best suited for 3rd grade students.
 
Student race around the classroom to find words that make up the sentence.
 
Students listen series of two similar sentences and circle the correct one.
 
The objective of Scattergories is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit.

 

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.

 

Sengoku Jidai

Teams make sentences/questions in order to build up territory and become Shogun.

 

Sengoku Palindrome

Students use the names of Japanese prefectures to work on their spelling and vocabulary.

 

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.

 

Shiritori Race

This activity is just like the Japanese Shiritori game where students fill-in-the-blanks with English words they know until they reach the finish point.

 

Sleeping Game, The

Students work together to put sentences in the right order.

 

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.

 
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.

 

Sweden

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


T-Z

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. 

 

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.

 

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.

Worksheets w/out Explanations

Game Boards

People

Money 

Misc. 

Amaze

Famous People

U.S. Dollars

Useful Classroom English 

Block Jumping

Biographies:

easy med hard

Funny Money

Park Life

Chutes & Ladders

 

BubbleBoy

Yen: 1 2 5 10

Dollars: 1

Beach Description

English Adventure

 

 

Spot the Differences 

Snakes & Ladders: 01 / 02

 

 

Name Game

Tortoise & Hare

 

 

Show-n-Tell

Windy

 

 

Food

Basic Gameboard: 01 / 02 / 02  Spinner
Bingo: 09 / 16 / 25   
Cubes   
Explorers   
Hex   
Snowball   
Worms   

Spokes

 

 

 

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

 

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