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Channel Surfing 'What were they doing?'

A write and race activity useful for practicing the past progressive

Cross it Out

A quick activity useful for practicing simple questions and answers. I usually use it for 'What's this?'

Drawing Challenge

A short activity for practicing simple be verb sentences

Fun Fruits

A group based point getting game. It works well as a write and race type activitiy.

Paper Airplane Introductions

Students read a self-introduction from one of their classmates, then the class guesses which student it's from.

BB Fun

BB stands for Birthday Bingo. Students learn the basics for months and days in English.

Town Directions

A map of a town with a worksheet.

Train Travel Directions Activities

Quizzes, maps and worksheets to be used for giving train directions.

Ways To SF

This is a simple listening exercise for students to learn how to ask for directions and draw on the map while famous places in San Francisco are being introduced to them.

Kyoto Invasion

A power point game that can be adapted to many lesson points

Beginner's Poetry

This poetry writing exercise allows students the chance to express themselves via the beautiful language of poetry.

Nice To Meet You

Students practice expressions used during self-introductions.

Asteroids

A dice rolling game to practice sentences with 'must' in them.

Making Monsters

This is a drawing activity for Halloween that can be used to teach body parts and plurals.

Cleaning The Haunted House

Two fun passive voice riddles that can be used after students learn to use the passive voice.

Plural Monster Drawing

Students draw monsters while practicing body parts.

How To Make Origami

An interview activity where students find out what their friends know how to do.

Phonics Fun

Students listen to the ALT pronounce words from the worksheet and choose the corresponding words in an 'amida' or 'ghost leg' activity.

Bingo Interview: Who/He/She

Students interview each other using "Who is he/she?" questions.

Mastermind

This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.

Bye Bye Spelling

Students memorize words written on the chalkboard and write them as you randomly erase them.

Which Do You Like

Students try to get a bingo while practicing, "Which do you like, ____ or ____?"

Snoopy's Busy Month

Students read sentences and change the verb in parentheses to the past tense form.

ALT and JTE Interview

Students think of 'Do you like' questions to ask the teachers and fill in the worksheet.

Canada Quizzes

Three choice quizzes I use when first start at schools. Might be useful for other ALTs from Canada.

English Class Rules

This is a relatively quick game to practice the must/mustn't grammar form while also reviewing verbs and basic rules of behavior in English class.

Alphabet Mistakes

Guess what letters are not correct and fix them.

Thief

Students compose a series of questions to try and guess who the thief of the chocolate cake the ALT made was.

Imperative Bingo

This is just a simple bingo game that practices Imperative phrases.

Bananaman

Students go round asking their friends "Do you like bananas?" in order to find 8 hidden bananamen.

He Looks Terrible

The students look at pictures and listen to sounds, and then write sentences to describe what they saw/heard.

What Do You Think Of English

Students translate the adjectives into Japanese then ask each other their opinions.

Relative Matching

Students make sentences using 'that/which' Relative Pronouns.

Have You Ever Bet

Students practice "Have you ever ....?" questions while having fun betting about classmates' experiences.

Daily Routine

Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.

How Many Monsters

Students practice asking "How many?" and review body parts by drawing monsters.

How Much Shopping

Students ask "How much is~?" to find out the prices of the items in this info gap activity.

Do As I Say

Students work in groups to respond to commands from the teacher and formulate appropriate responses.

Scattergories

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.

Bingo Bongo

Students ask the ALT questions to try and get a Bingo or Bongo.