Requires the teacher to print out the activity on paper.
Uso
Uso means lie. Students choose objects they don't like and try to make their partner believe they do like it.
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.
The Man Wearing A Striped Shirt
Students must find Waldo/Wally and other people in the picture before other groups!
Katakana Karuta
Students learn to hear the difference between katakana pronunciation and REAL English by playing this fast paced card game.
Daimeishi Relay
Groups race to place their pronoun cards in the correct place on their invisible grid located on the chalkboard.
Shopping For Mom
Students go shopping using Mom's list while role playing and practicing the target grammar.
Crazy Months
This is a cool Crazy 8's game that practices the months of the year.
Dice Of Fortune
Students guess letters of the sentence on the board, similar to Wheel of Fortune.
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.
Pyramid Game
Students have to think of English words, phrases and sentences in order to help other students understand the mystery word.
Squares
In this strategy game, students draw lines to try and complete a square.
Tools Of The Trade
This simple activity is to introduce the simple Passive Voice phrase "...is used by...", and to expose the class to various tools people use in their occupations.
Do You Have To Study?
Students try to get as many cards as possible by asking others what they have to do.
Comparative Shopping
Students are divided into shopkeepers and customers and role play. Customers use comparative adjectives to request a different item.
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
MINGLER QUESTIONS
A simple activity useful for communicating and reviewing target language.
Jake's Snakes and Ladders
This a simple Snakes and Ladders game I made for one of my special needs classes.
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."
ODD ONE OUT
A discussion activity useful for 3rd year classes.
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.
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