Digital Play

Explore the house and find the fourteen hidden presents to get a key which will let you escape through the front door. The object for your language learners is to use 1st conditional sentences to walk you through the game and finish it.

Preparation: A copy of the Ecard Wordsearch for each learner. A single copy of the Ecard Picture Dictation or a screenshot of a finished ecard.

By grahamstanley http://digitalplay.info/blog/2009/12/brain-cell-interactive-story-for-upper-intermediate-eflesl-learners/

Key Language: Carpet, cookie jar, key, hug, cupboard, knock, feather, wing, box, tail, elf, tickle, window, bird house, hammer, ribbon, scissors, shelf, plate, bird seed, lever, nest,

1) Don’t hand out the gaming shop worksheet straight away but dictate the three questions at the beginning. Dictate the questions in chunks (see below) and as naturally as possible, making sure connected speech elements are present.

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Tube Crisis is a short point-and-click puzzle game that is good for stimulating conversation with (upper-intermediate + ) learners if you are lucky enough to teach in a connected classroom (i.e. one equipped with a computer and data projector and/or interactive whiteboard)

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Preparation: Download a copy of the walkthrough for yourself and a copy of the crossword and crossword clues for each pair of learners.

Runescape is a very popular online role playing game where players can interact with each other within a medieval style fantasy world. It has a short tutorial which serves to walk new players through ...