JHS activities
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Warm-ups
- 60 Second Quiz. Study new vocabulary words.
- Wordsearch. Review vocabulary words.
- Phonics Card Game. Practice simple phonic sounds.
- Karuta - Phonics. Practice complex phonic sounds.
- Show and Tell. Practice questions and answers.
- Warm-up questions.
- ALT's essay. Develop the ability to listen to natural English.
- Whispering game. Develop listening abilities.
- Bus Stop.
- Machine gun input.
- 1 minute speech.
- Popcorn Game.
- What am I?. Describe an object and students guess what it is.
Main activities
- Choose Your Own Adventure.
- Two truths and a lie.
- Process writing.
- Question relay.
- Translation game.
- Battleship.
Self-introductions
Student’s
- Who Am I.
- Bingo - Interview.
- Meishi Card Game.
- Famous Couples.
- Autobiography.
- Written Self-Introduction.
- Getting to Know (Canada).
- String Them Along.
ALT’s
- Mystery Man Translation Game.
- Bag of Truth.
- Bingo - Interview.
- Interactive Question Game.
- Pass the Question.
- Guessing Game.
- Colored Card.
- Gambling.
- True or False.
- Introduction Quiz.
- Let's Bet Introduction.
- Bingo Introduction.
The Roman Alphabet
Phonics
- Fan Game.
- Phonics Chain.
- Pronunciation Tree.
- Letter Change.
- Interruptions.
- Sound Search.
- Match Finding.
- Syllable Challenge.
- Syllable Race.
- Concentration.
- Haiku.
Personal pronouns
Present Positive
Demonstrative pronouns
- Show and Tell.
- My Buddy and Me.
- Liar! Liar!.
- Card Collecting Game.
- Character Switch.
- The Great Pen Case Heist.
- Pictionary.
- Match It.
- Empire.
- Pair Work Card Game.
- Black Magic.
Present Interrogative
Be
- Pass the Ball
- Who in the World Are You?
- Collecting Signatures
- Are You From...
- Are you Kitty-chan
- Guess Who I Am!
- Find your Group
Do
Present Negative
Affinitive
Ordinal Numbers
- Addition using English
- Backward Countdown
- Bean Jar Count
- Bingo
- Buzz
- Cross out
- Dice Game
- Digit Derby
- Hidden Object
- Number Line-up
- Number, Number
- Number Recognition
- Number Sequence
- Number Tic-Tac-Toe
- Soccer Players
- Speed-Reading
- Statistical Treasure Hunt
- What’s on the Menu
- Price is Right
- Number Jeopardy
- Don’t Get 7
- Paper Airplane Cardinal Numbers
- Getting In Order
- Age Number Trick
- Elephant in England Number Trick
- Magic Birthday
Adjectives
- Adjective Dice Roll. Roll dice and name many kinds of things.
- Color Toss. Throw a ball around and call out things of different colors.
- Back to Back.
- Scavenger Hunt.
- Personality Test.
- Dominos.
Plural
WH Questions
Present Progressive
- Three Part Relay
- Where’s Bob
- Class Concentration
- Information Gap
- ESL Clue!
- Charades
- Picture Whisper
- Wacky Drawing Race
- Board Game
- Nine-Square Mind-Reading Trick
- Why! That's The Sound Of...
Imperative
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- The Spoiled Prince
- Delegation of Responsibility
- In The Army Now
- Complete the Command
- Ten Tasks
- Gimme Gimme Game
- Strip Simon Says
- Board Game
- Teach The ALT To Cook
- International Signs
- Proverbs
- Just Do It!
Present Potential
- Discover the Picture
- Bingo
- Brainstorming
- Can Quiz
- Card Collecting Game
- Yes/No Heads Up 7 Up
- Prove It
Past tense
Past positive
- Moods
- This is the House That Jack Built
- Picture the Past
- Running Dictation
- Piling up Events
- Chain Story
- Pictures into Stories
- Putting Stories in Order
- What's Your Alibi
Past interrogative
- Liar! Liar!
- Information Gap
- Broken Squares
- Yes/No Race
- Information Gap
- Bingo
- Read and Run
- Bingo
- Find someone who…
- Did I or Didn’t I
- Past Board Game
Past irregular
Used to
Past progressive
Future tense
- Dream Vacation Interview.
- Plans for a Trip.
- Palm Reading.
- Fortune Telling.
- Fortune-Teller.
- Future Tense Tarot Cards.
- MASH Game.
- Resolutions.
- Character signature.
- Future Board Game.
- What’s Next.
- The World Tomorrow.
- What Will You Do With It.
- Celebrity Schedules.
- Who’s Who.
- The Me I Want to Be.
- Going to the Moon.
- TV Newspaper Schedule.
- Next Week’s Schedule.
- Climbing Through a Postcard.
Requests
Infinitive
Conditional
- Rampant Consumerism
- If You Give a Bear a Hug
- Conditional Identities
- Conversation Starters Using "If"
- Chain of Events
- Conditional Board Game
- Conditional Chain
- Fraction Fun
- If I Were
- Million Dollars
- Only If
- If You Had the Chance
- Conditional Connect
- Finish Conditional Sentences
- Superstitions
Comparing
- Who has the Longest Legs
- Spoons
- Conversely
- Comparative Game
- Detective Game
- Compare Your CDs
- Crazy Comparatives at High Speed Like A Cheetah
- Animal ESP
- Superlative Complements
- Class Olympics
- Best of All
- Visual Perception of Length
- Variation Diagrams
- Ranking
- Comparative Picture Game
Passive voice
Perfect tense
- Sentence Examples
- The Present Perfect House of Horrors
- Dumb Law Wanted Posters
- Have/Haven’t game
- Go Fish
- Has Doraemon Ever Visited Russia
- Never Have I Ever
- Find Someone Who
- Deprivation
- The Greatly Revered Adverbs of Frequency Game
- There is a Time and Place...
- Only You
- Liar! Liar!
- To Tell a Lie
- Peculiar Actions
- Bragging Rights
- Oh! No! My...!
- Super Groups
- Bingo
Past Perfect
What to how to where to
...For Me
Debating Skills
Relative pronouns
- Animalmania.
- Betting Game.
- Cube of Fortune.
- Curious George.
- Pop Culture Survey.
- Relative pronoun karuta.

