Listening

You Will Get Your Fortune

Students ask ALT and JTE for their fortunes by picking one out of three cards.

Can You Find A Pair

Students ask each other "Can you..." questions until they find their pair.

5 W's & H

Students practice asking and answering questions using the 5Ws and H question words.

Memory Challenge

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.

Horoscope Review

Students review first year grammar points by playing Janken and finding their horoscopes.

Stereo Noise

The class listens to a group of students announce in unison what they want to be. The class must listen carefully to and try to decode each student's occupation.

Matsuko Deluxe Birthday

Students compete in rows to score points for being the first team to relay celebrity birthdays back to the ALT.

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.

Tic Tac Bingo

Students practice listening to present perfect sentences while playing bingo according to questions the ALT/JTE ask.

What's Wrong? Board Game

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

Balancing Act

Students try to balance the object on their body part while practicing the corresponding vocabulary.

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.

Animal Coloring

Children color animals according to the ALT's instructions.

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.

Relative Park Drawing

Students listen to a description of a park scene and they must draw it.

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.

First Letter Phonics

Students play Karuta to help them understand the way letters work.

Phone Janken Out

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

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.

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.