Aimed at junior high school students.
Can I Play Janken?
Students try to get bingo by asking for favors/permission using 'Can you/Can I...' questions.
Can you find the picture in the textbook?
Students search their textbook for pictures that match the criteria and then write a quiz for their classmates.
Gesture Quiz Game
I usually use this gesture game to introduce present continuous.
What are animals doing GAME
A point get game for practicing the present progressive.
Continuous Guessing
This is a Guess Who-style game using cards and point tokens.
Invite Me Baby
Students aim to understand the grammar and form a free dialogue around various questions.
It's About Christmas
A Christmas-themed worksheet activity where students learn Christmas vocabulary and create sentences with prepositional phrases.
Make a Monster
Students use present tense plural verbs to form sentences to describe an original monster.
Oh No! Bingo
A tactical bingo game where bingo is bad. Students practice speaking as well as listening.
Past Tense Dice Game
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular past tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
Mystery Burger, Please
Students learn how to order various fast food items then customize their own dialogue to practice with their friends.
Where's The Pickle?
A fun activity based on the Christmas tradition of finding the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree.
Time And Weather
An information gap game where students ask each other the time and weather in different parts of the world.
You Decide T/F
The ALT reads 4 sentences and the students have to decide which sentence is false. In groups, students write their own sentences and the other students have to find the liar.
Band Guess
Students try to guess the name of the band from pictograms.
Cross Out Spelling Relay
Students take turns in teams to spell out a word the instructor calls out by crossing out a letter on their team
Drawing Comparatives "-ER~THAN"
Students draw three sets of two comparatives according to the descriptions under each. Adjustable for superlatives.
Pencils and Bombs Review Quiz and Profile Game
A quiz review game and then a writing activity.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus SONG ACTIVITY
A fun Christmas activity for listening, reading, and writing. San-nensei.
Charades
This activity practices the present progressive verb tense (verb + ing) and then plays a fun charades game.
Past Tense Points
Students get into groups and try to come up with past tense sentences that will give them the most points.
Listening Race
Students listen to the teacher read Present Tense verb sentences and circle the correct picture.
Find the People
Students practice the reduced relative clause by searching their textbook for people doing things.
Character's Clothes
Students see a small part of a character (a piece of clothing or body part). They guess which character the clothing/body part belongs to.
Uso Baseball
The students play a baseball-themed game where they describe themselves.
Eraser Get
This is a quick and easy vocab review 'game' for 1st grade past tense verbs. Ideal for a quick review before doing a writing exercise.
This Is A Game I Played
A simple speaking and listening Janken-focused sugoroku that has students say, "What's this?" "This is a ..." many times.
Famous People Introductions
A shiritori type game where students race to write sentences about famous people.
Hand Lines
Students discover their friends' future by reading the palm lines on their hands.
I'll Give You Game
Students pass around cards while saying "I'll give you ~." Those left holding the cards when the music stops are out!
Prepositions of Place
This game teaches the students to hear prepositions of place: on, above, below, in front of, etc. The students listen and try to draw an image of a room that is described by the ALT.
Yamanote Line
Students pound on their desks and while practicing various English target vocabulary.
My Country Tis Of Thee
Students make their own country while practicing possessives.
Body Discovery
A row race where students attempt to fill in as many body parts on a stick figure, within five minutes, as possible.
Conditional Auction
Sentences are auctioned off to students and they must say if the sentence is grammatically correct.
Feel Well
This activity is based on the doctor visit dialog in New Horizon's English textbook, but this one is more entertaining and it teaches various names of illnesses.
Answer Me Bingo
This is a group Jeopardy game mixed with a flavor of Bingo.
Passive Beginnings
This information gap game is pretty self-explanatory.
10 Questions
By asking yes/no questions, students must guess the target word or Japanese celebrity.
Martin Luther King Jr Crossword
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