Speaking

Infinitive Poker

This activity is a high stakes card game that gets kids using infinitives.

Washing His Face

Students practice using present progressive sentences and reviewing

Seasonal Food (Shun) Game

Students guess the seasonal foods of Japan using passive voice.

Janken Swap

A card game where students janken and win cards from their opponents.

Memory

Match the cards with the 'Why' question to the 'Because' answer, followed by a short interview game.

Popularity Contest

Students choose between various popular characters to slowly whittle down which is the most popular.

World Tour Game

Students practice the phrases "Where do you want to go?" and "I want to go to ~" in an exciting dice rolling game.

What's Wrong? Board Game

Students play a board game to practice telling each other about their ailments and giving each other advice.

Ping Pong Pang

Students play an adapted version of the popular drinking game (a point that should NOT be made in class).

Superhero Powers

Students write a description of a superhero and then try to draw their friend’s superhero.

Shadow Guess

A silhouette quiz with the entire class followed by a similar quiz done in pairs.

Imagination Quiz

Students make pairs and take turns asking each other questions to find out what the other student is thinking about.

What Is The Best Interview

Students fill in their own answers and then ask their classmates questions such as, "What's the best movie you have ever seen?"

Your Monkey?

In this game, students secretly draw pictures on cards and try to guess the artist of each card. Students learn to understand, ask, and respond to simple questions of ownership/possession.

I'm Full

Students trade cards with each other in order to get a full meal and declare, "I'm full!"

Bedroom Drawing

Students listen to their partner’s instructions and attempt to draw a replica of a bedroom.

Kathy's Game

A fast-paced game where teams race to be the first to do the instructions correctly.

Fun With Prepositions

Using teamwork, students search for pictures around the room and describe it to their team members.

Hot Seat

A student sits at the front of the classroom and answers questions. Other students try to guess their answers.

Strange Patient

This a simple guessing game that has students playing the role of a patient who kind of has an idea of what sickness they have, and the doctor is trying to guess whether or not they are lying.

Phone Janken Out

Student engage in a fun conversational activity that practices an easy phone conversation.

Sequence

Just like the Sequence board game, teams battle to line up four cards in a row to win.

Ouch

Students learn how to describe their symptoms by playing Janken games.

Eat See Visit

Students learn a little about other countries, their food and famous places through playing a modified version of shinkeisuijaku (pairs).

Infinitive Cards

Students talk to each other, trying to match the sentence fragments on their cards.

"How Many Apples?" Janken

Students will try to "collect" apples by playing janken and asking "How many apples?"

Pick a Side

Students move to the left or right side of the classroom depending on what they can or cannot do.

I Have No Idea

Students try to guess their partner’s drawing then write their answer on their worksheet.

Guess Me

Students ask five questions and guess the secret identity of their group members.

"May I" Card Game

This is a simple card game that uses the polite request form and its answers. It is an extremely simple game for the students to pick up and start playing quickly.

Crazy Bus Race

Based on New Horizon's Speaking Plus 2 (grade1), students create their own dialogue using the Crazy Bus map and worksheet.

Do You Like Bingo

An ice-breaking bingo game for 1st year JHS students that practices the 'do' helping verb.

Practicing Gerunds

This worksheet contains three practice activities for the gerunds.

Kidnap

A game to get the students to practice the four parts of learning (reading, writing, talking and listening) while trying to find out who kidnapped Miki Ando.

Which Interview Challenge

Students interview each other, asking questions using the question word 'which'. They ask three questions to each student and record the answers they receive.

I Study English

Students will use trading cards to give their classmates three hint quizzes using "I study ~." Students who guess correctly get the card from their classmate.

When Mario Called Me

Students make groups and take turns saying "when" sentences to make other students mark stars off of their worksheets. The last student with stars left on their sheet is the winner.

Let's Have Fun

Students find their match using 'Let's' and 'use' dialogues.

Briiing Briiing Briiingo

Students learn simple telephone conversation English and practice it via bingo.

Who Which

Groups race to turn Japanese Relative Clause sentences into English ones.