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Months of the year Karuta card game Japan and the UK
A card game to practice the months of the year, featuring pictures of monthly events in Japan and the UK. Give each student a sheet, have them cut out all the months. Then say a month at random, the students have to touch the card as quickly as possible. Works as a single player or multiplayer game. Good for non-contact classes during COVID. The ev...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-100
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Downloads: 7
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How many mice? Chinese Zodiac I Spy
Practice asking "How many ?" by counting the animals of the zodiac. Each number from 1 to 12 features once. Note that this uses the Japanese zodiac which features slightly different animals.
In particular, mouse instead of rat, cow instead of ox, sheep instead of goat, chicken instead of rooster, and wild boar instead of pig
Level: elementary
Age: 3-6
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Food Snakes and Ladders!
Students take turns moving around the board asking the question "What X do you like?" When a player lands on a space, the others must ask them, for example, "Do you like potatoes?" I have played this successfully with 5 year old students over ZOOM, so I think it can work well with any age level. The game takes at least 20 minutes with two players. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Do you like Animals and Insects Snakes and Ladders
Students take turns moving around the board asking the question "Do you like X ?"
When a player lands on a space, the others must ask them if they like the animal or insect on that space.
I have played this successfully with 5 year old students over ZOOM, so I think it can work well with any age level.
The game takes at least 20 minutes wi...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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English Tower Game Japan 3rd Year JHS
A review game for end of year 3rd Junior High School students in Japan.
Can also be used for intermediate students.
The concept is quite sound, so you could change the questions to anything or any level.
Students walk around asking their friends questions.
Students start from question one. They have to get to the goal.
If their friend answ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-16
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Battleships Grammar Game
Students play Battleships and speak a lot of English at the same time! In order to choose a square to fire at, students must make a complete sentence by saying a horizontal and a vertical part. For example A1 would be "It is fun for me to play Fortnite." It is hard for them to cheat and use their native language, and this activity can be adapted to...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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Guess Who Help Sheet
A sheet to help students form sentences for the game Guess Who. I have played this game with successfully with children as young as 4, and it works very well over ZOOM as well, if you both have the same copy of the game.
Level: elementary
Age: 4-100
Type:
Downloads: 5
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Gunma-chan preposition flash cards
Gunma-chan flashcards!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-15
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 12
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12 Days of Christmas
The famous song, written in 1780, with a Japanese translation and phonetic translation into katakana. Be warned that "Pipers Piping" sounds a lot like "Brazil wax" in Japanese. Much hilarity!
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Find Someone who Pets
A game for conversation classes. Students walk around the class and try to find other students who can anwser the questions with a yes.
They then get that student to sign their paper. For example,
A "Do you have a cat"
B "Yes I do!"
Hopefully students will learn about each other and start conversations. Takes about 15 minutes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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