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Letters To Hakuho

This activity gives the students an opportunity to make funny or interesting sentences using the 'it...for...to...' pattern.

Alphabet Madness

An activity to motivate students to write the alphabet faster.

Monster Drawing

Students use their knowledge of English colors, numbers, body parts, and shapes (optional) to draw a monster based upon the ALT's description.

Word Finder

A simple yet addictive and competitive word finder game.

Run and Read

Pair activity that involves students finding information that is scattered around the classroom and passing it on to their partner.

Guess Who - I Have Already Eaten Lunch

An activity based on the popular Guess Who game.

Hawaiian Plane Crash

The students are given a plane crash scenario and they must choose objects from the crash to carry with them to survive.

Ghost Leg

Students practice the alphabet by playing a bingo game based on "amida kuji," which means "ghost leg."

Show me your Passport... or else!

Students will play the roles of the customs officer and tourist in a guessing activity.

Find The Wrong - Is/Are

This is a game in which the students race to be the first to find all the grammar mistakes.

Who kidnapped Miki Ando?

Students translate Perfect Present sentences from Japanese to English in order to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Miki Ando.

Can You Kanji

Students ask other classmates if they can read unknown kanji characters.

Where Am I?

Students practice giving and receiving directions while playing Othello.

Don't Guess The Number

A number guessing game where students try NOT to get the correct number. Reviews 0-100. (or any other range)

Shopping For Mom

Students go shopping using Mom's list while role playing and practicing the target grammar.

Give us a Card, Please

Students exchange cards with their classmates, practicing 2 sentence patterns: "Give me a card," and "Give us a card."

Sazae-san's Family

This is a simple game in which the students become a member of the Sazae-san family.

ROBOTS ATTACK THE TOWN

If it looks like ROBOTS ATTACK THE WORLD. That's because it pretty much is.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUIZ (gerunds)

A group quiz game to practice infinitive statements and gerunds

ZOMBIE ATTACK powerpoint Game

This is a colorful powerpoint game along with a sign game and some follow up writing I often use with it.

My JHS highlights

Students reflect back on their years in junior high school and share their memories with their classmates.

Where should Naomi Osaka choose?

Students discuss whether Naomi Osaka should choose to become a Japanese or American citizen.

Media Diet

Students read an article and talk about their media consumption habits.

Thirty-six

Students review recent vocabulary by quizzing each other.

What are they doing?

Students practice Present Progressive grammar by drawing two people and asking their classmates what they're doing.

CHARACTER RACE

The horse race activity played on the board. I often do it as a review before tests.

Pitch your business

Students come up with a business idea and compete to see who will get funding.

CASTLE BATTLES

Another territorial battle game. Like Robots attacking the world it is meant for longer or more advanced questions.

ASK the TEACHERS

Simple 'YES' or 'NO' interview activity. Its mean for practicing 'Did you' questions and negative past tense writing.

Present continuous - I'm playing tennis.

An activity worksheet that practices presesent continuous, for example, "I'm eating ramen."

ROBOTS ATTACK THE WORLD

A battle power point game similiar to the Battle for Japan activity or Invasion USA. The groups work at their own speed though.

Speed Circling

A karuta styled activity to be played in pairs.

I watched TV past simple

A "Who Dunnit" game that has students asking other students what they were doing recently.

There is... There are

An activity (set in Tokyo, Japan) for practicing "There is" and "there are"

Comparative student search

Students practice comparative grammar by stacking themselves up against their classmates.

Comparatives "Totoro is bigger than Mei"

Pair activity to practice comparatives.

Our Town is Loved by Us

Basic 'write and race' activity about the student's town.

Superlative Challenge

A short silly group activity to practice or introduce superlative writing. It can be adjusted easily for adverbs.

SOCCER GAME

A 'janken based' pair game useful for practicing many patterns. It is most useful for 'Yes' and 'No' question patterns.

Almost Pokemon Battle Game

This is a write and race activity the students play in groups.