The Balloon Game is a quiz that encourages students to use their English to stop the balloons from floating away! This game is a classroom adaptation of a popular Japanese TV quiz segment. Around four celebrities or comedians stand within … Continue reading The Balloon Game
Target Language is a quiz format that encourages students to practise and review the vocabulary and grammar of a course. The reason for creating this new PowerPoint quiz format was to have some variety. Rather than simply playing Jeopardy or using a class … Continue reading Target Language: Practise spelling, vocabulary & grammar
‘Spaceman’ is an alternative to hangman. It uses easy to draw shapes, it follows the same rules and it is easily identifiable by its name. I imagine that if you are reading this you are probably already familiar with how … Continue reading Spaceman: An alternative to hangman
Spinning Wheels are a great way of introducing an element of randomness into the classroom. A quick Google search reveals how popular spinning wheels are. They can be used for a number of games and they can also be used to … Continue reading The Spinning Wheel
The Dungeon Quiz is a different kind of PowerPoint® game. Students have to use their English ability to defeat the monsters in the dungeon. The Dungeon Quiz is loosely based on dungeon-level video games. The first version of the Dungeon … Continue reading The Dungeon Quiz
Valentine’s Day can be a difficult holiday to prepare for because people respond to this day in different ways. There are not only cultural differences to be aware of but there are our students’ individual beliefs and experiences to consider. … Continue reading Hearts Bingo
I have recently been writing about activities that encourage students to make decisions and choices. In this post, I want to continue that theme and talk about mazes. Svetlana Kandybovich from ELT-cation and Miguel Míguez from On the same page … Continue reading The Maze Game
The Mystery Door Game is a fun way to get students involved in their own education by providing opportunities to make choices about what they are going to learn or do. In my last post, I wrote about the game … Continue reading The Mystery Door Game
Comparing two things is a great way to encourage students to discuss and debate or to speculate and guess. It encourages students to explain the reasons behind their ideas and if there is disagreement in their groups, they have to learn … Continue reading A or B – Can you guess correctly?
It’s the beginning of the December. For the past two years, I have produced a Christmas quiz template that can be used for the holiday season. This year is no different. What’s new Last year, I released an updated version … Continue reading Christmas Quiz 2016
