Abilities Survival Board Game
Description:
A PowerPoint-based board game you can have your Students play to practice on expressing abilities, possibilities and unreal conditionals.
Overview:
Students will make teams and then each member of the team will be given two superpowers. Along the board game there are challenges that Students will have to face and overcome by using the superpowers they have and by making decisions as a group. An easy-to-play game with simple buttons, simple instructions, and vocabulary help, this will be a fun twist when teaching the modals can and could and unreal conditionals. Make sure you read the Tips For Teachers and Controls sections so you know how to operate the game.
Requirements: You will need PowerPoint 10 or higher to run the game. Few sound effects are used, but in general no speakers or headphones are strictly necessary. Even though you can play this game offline from one single desktop or laptop, you can use a projector or an HDMI cable and a TV to have a better view of the game and make it more engaging for Students. Remember that to play the game you have to start it in Presentation Mode.
Download Link: Click on this link to download the game onto your computer. Don't worry about how the game looks a bit messy on Google Drive, it will automatically rearrange when you download it and open it.
Description:
A PowerPoint-based board game you can have your Students play to practice on expressing abilities, possibilities and unreal conditionals.
Overview:
Students will make teams and then each member of the team will be given two superpowers. Along the board game there are challenges that Students will have to face and overcome by using the superpowers they have and by making decisions as a group. An easy-to-play game with simple buttons, simple instructions, and vocabulary help, this will be a fun twist when teaching the modals can and could and unreal conditionals. Make sure you read the Tips For Teachers and Controls sections so you know how to operate the game.
Requirements: You will need PowerPoint 10 or higher to run the game. Few sound effects are used, but in general no speakers or headphones are strictly necessary. Even though you can play this game offline from one single desktop or laptop, you can use a projector or an HDMI cable and a TV to have a better view of the game and make it more engaging for Students. Remember that to play the game you have to start it in Presentation Mode.
Download Link: Click on this link to download the game onto your computer. Don't worry about how the game looks a bit messy on Google Drive, it will automatically rearrange when you download it and open it.
Jeopardy
How about wrapping up Intermediate levels by playing jeopardy.
Click here to download this Jeopardy Game. You could use the
magic board in the multimedia room and enjoy seeing your students
review and learn as they have fun.
How about wrapping up Intermediate levels by playing jeopardy.
Click here to download this Jeopardy Game. You could use the
magic board in the multimedia room and enjoy seeing your students
review and learn as they have fun.
Who Wants to Be Millionaire
By downloading this PowerPoint template you will be able to customize the slides with questions about the class topic, grammar, vocabulary, and more. This is a great way to have your students produce, practice how to make different questions in different tenses -which is sometimes a bit difficult for them - and review the content of a course. Click here to download it.
By downloading this PowerPoint template you will be able to customize the slides with questions about the class topic, grammar, vocabulary, and more. This is a great way to have your students produce, practice how to make different questions in different tenses -which is sometimes a bit difficult for them - and review the content of a course. Click here to download it.
Disaster Watch
Description: An easy-to-play video game where you have to help Felipe, the main character, warn the people of his native town in Nicaragua about an oncoming disaster. At the end of the game you can read some real disaster stories told by the victims themselves. It takes about 15 minutes.
Recommend for: Intermediate 2 - Unit 5
Suggested Activity: Have your students play the game and then report to a classmate what happened and what the outcome was for each of them. Then, when the game's over, have them click where it says "Read Real Stories". Have your student read such stories told by real victims and them report by using Reported Speech.
Description: An easy-to-play video game where you have to help Felipe, the main character, warn the people of his native town in Nicaragua about an oncoming disaster. At the end of the game you can read some real disaster stories told by the victims themselves. It takes about 15 minutes.
Recommend for: Intermediate 2 - Unit 5
Suggested Activity: Have your students play the game and then report to a classmate what happened and what the outcome was for each of them. Then, when the game's over, have them click where it says "Read Real Stories". Have your student read such stories told by real victims and them report by using Reported Speech.
Free Rice
Description: The objective of this game is to complete very simple tasks such as solving mathematical problems, or choosing synonyms for English words, among other subjects. The great thing about this game is for every correct answer you are donating 10 grains of rice to people who live in conditions of poverty through the United Nations World Food Programme. Not only can you practice English, but also many other subjects by clicking on the option "Change Subjects".
Recommended for: Junior 1+ (K&T); Basic 1+ (Adult Program)
Suggested Activity: Use this website with your students to help them prepare for tests or as a strategy to learn new vocabulary every week.
Description: The objective of this game is to complete very simple tasks such as solving mathematical problems, or choosing synonyms for English words, among other subjects. The great thing about this game is for every correct answer you are donating 10 grains of rice to people who live in conditions of poverty through the United Nations World Food Programme. Not only can you practice English, but also many other subjects by clicking on the option "Change Subjects".
Recommended for: Junior 1+ (K&T); Basic 1+ (Adult Program)
Suggested Activity: Use this website with your students to help them prepare for tests or as a strategy to learn new vocabulary every week.
MedMyst
Description: This is an EXCELLENT game you can use to introduce some basic concepts on health and diseases, and how diseases are spread and can be treated. Set up in year 2254, after having been through something they call "The New Dark Age" - a number of years where humanity faced a plague that decimated human population and made civilization collapse. The whole game is composed of seven missions where the player is appointed as a RECONSTRUCTOR, a person in charge of helping prevent the spread of different types of diseases and solving mysteries related to epidemics, and more.
Recommended for: Intermediate 1 - Unit 2
Suggested Activity: Start your class by asking when the last time they got sick was. Write some of those diseases on the board. Then, ask them if they know how they got such disease and what they did to treat it. Then it's recommended you have your students play Mission No. 1: "Orientation At O.R.B", where they will be taught the basics about bacteria, viruses, and some other pathogens, how they're transmitted, and how the diseases they produce can be treated -students can continue playing other missions on their own if they want at home. As a wrap-up for the game, introduce the vocabulary from page 22 (Top Notch 3) on medications, then play the listening exercise and let Ss only listen to the patients' description of their symptoms and have Ss discuss what type of medication would be the best to treat such patient.
Description: This is an EXCELLENT game you can use to introduce some basic concepts on health and diseases, and how diseases are spread and can be treated. Set up in year 2254, after having been through something they call "The New Dark Age" - a number of years where humanity faced a plague that decimated human population and made civilization collapse. The whole game is composed of seven missions where the player is appointed as a RECONSTRUCTOR, a person in charge of helping prevent the spread of different types of diseases and solving mysteries related to epidemics, and more.
Recommended for: Intermediate 1 - Unit 2
Suggested Activity: Start your class by asking when the last time they got sick was. Write some of those diseases on the board. Then, ask them if they know how they got such disease and what they did to treat it. Then it's recommended you have your students play Mission No. 1: "Orientation At O.R.B", where they will be taught the basics about bacteria, viruses, and some other pathogens, how they're transmitted, and how the diseases they produce can be treated -students can continue playing other missions on their own if they want at home. As a wrap-up for the game, introduce the vocabulary from page 22 (Top Notch 3) on medications, then play the listening exercise and let Ss only listen to the patients' description of their symptoms and have Ss discuss what type of medication would be the best to treat such patient.
The Family Feud 2
Description: This game is based on the show "The Family Feud", where contestants are asked a question and they have a certain time to guess which were the most common responses from a group of 100 interviewed people. It's a great game to practice vocabulary.
Recommended for: High Beginner courses (in the Adult program) and Teen 7 courses and up (in the K&T program)
Suggested activity: Use this game as an Ice-breaker when starting a new course, just to make everybody interact and share ideas about what the answers could be. It's a fun way to get everybody in the mood for doing teamwork.
Description: This game is based on the show "The Family Feud", where contestants are asked a question and they have a certain time to guess which were the most common responses from a group of 100 interviewed people. It's a great game to practice vocabulary.
Recommended for: High Beginner courses (in the Adult program) and Teen 7 courses and up (in the K&T program)
Suggested activity: Use this game as an Ice-breaker when starting a new course, just to make everybody interact and share ideas about what the answers could be. It's a fun way to get everybody in the mood for doing teamwork.
Packet Riders
Description: On Packet Riders you will find three different games that will explain in a very didactic way some of the basic concepts related to the Internet's infrastructure, and how information can be transmitted or, on the other hand, corrupted while on the Internet. At the same time they provide you with some thought-provoking topics for conversation, such as access to clean water in countries like Haiti, education for children in India, and more.
Recommended for: High Beginner 3 - Unit 9 "Using Computers"; Advanced 1 (K&T)
Suggested Activity: This game teaches people how information is delivered through the Internet and what perils it faces when it is out there, e.g. hackers and viruses, or Internet mechanism malfunctions. Playing this game could be a great introduction to talk about the dangers of the Internet and then introduce the reading from lesson 4 in Unit 9.
Description: On Packet Riders you will find three different games that will explain in a very didactic way some of the basic concepts related to the Internet's infrastructure, and how information can be transmitted or, on the other hand, corrupted while on the Internet. At the same time they provide you with some thought-provoking topics for conversation, such as access to clean water in countries like Haiti, education for children in India, and more.
Recommended for: High Beginner 3 - Unit 9 "Using Computers"; Advanced 1 (K&T)
Suggested Activity: This game teaches people how information is delivered through the Internet and what perils it faces when it is out there, e.g. hackers and viruses, or Internet mechanism malfunctions. Playing this game could be a great introduction to talk about the dangers of the Internet and then introduce the reading from lesson 4 in Unit 9.