Some collected ideas for Eigo clubs and outside the textbook activities. All have been used with good results.
Soon to come - A lesson on Eigo Keitai texting
New - Letter Bingo - From Tori - Good for shogako visits and beginning JHS ichi nen seis. Here and here
New - Maru Batsu Game - From Tori - How's your Japanese? Great? Fancy internationalising some Japanese and destroying some of those entrenched misconceptions re: anything beyond the borders of Japan. Try this game out. Here
New - New - Guess Who Game? - Similar to the original game you can buy- Guess Who One, Two, Three, and Four and instructions
New - Common Mistakes in English - This is a very good collection of common mistakes that we hear all the time. I include these in games like Jeopardy and Typhoon, because they are the mistakes that Japanese people always seem to make. e.g. "How about your holiday" （休みはどうでしたか） Here
New- Categories Game A categories game whereby the students list things and other students have to find the categories. Here
New - Cartoon Chat - Writing simple one panel cartoons for beginners. Here
New - Capture The Flag - Basically Battleships for Beginners. Here
New - City Life - Using a picture with a lot going on to create questions for beginners. Here
New - Create a Band - Scroll down the PDF until you come to the last page. A simple little exercise for students asking them to create a band of some kind. Can be tinkered with to make it more fun. Here
New - Cross Out - A word game students can play in pairs. Here
New - Cross Reference - Kind of an advanced version of Mastermind. Here
New - Definition Mix-up - Good game. Takes some time. But good for homework, and then play in class. Here
New- Face It - Making faces to match the expression. I played this with my special needs kids and they liked it. Good for kinesthetic and visual learners. Here
New - Bingo using Introductions Multicultural Bingo game using questions based on introductions. Here
New - Creating a dialogue with a Comic Strip - Here
New - "Me Too" - Tic Tac Toe - Q & A partner game using a more advanced tic tac toe format. Here
New - Sentence Building Card Game - Students can play these in pairs or groups. Here
New - Q and A Concentration - This worked quite well with my students. Can be varied depending on the grammar point you want to emphasize. Will give them tones of speaking practice. Here
New - What is different? - Given a list of items, they work out similarities and differences between the items. Here
NEW - Slang Jigsaw Drawing Puzzle - A fun way to learn slang words. Could be applied to any teaching point. Here
New - Stock Market Game - Good fun for English Clubs or small classes. You can find computer based simulations elsewhere on the net, but here is a paper based version. Kids will get a buzz of seeing their stocks rise and fall over the weeks. Best to provide a choice of a few well known companies and bring in the stock prices every week. Here
The World Ends in Two Years - ITESLJ
Things That Have Changed The World - ITESLJ
Goals - Boggles World
Finding a Partner - For the Older Kids - From Boggles World
Phone Activities - From Teach the Peach One and Two
Phone Number Bingo for beginners. (from Johns ESL)
Giving Directions -
Found a good one here from John's ESL. Can be modified to suit your needs.
Buildings - Worksheet
Filling in Forms in Eigo - Worksheet
Furniture - Worksheet
Inevitable Shopping Lessons - Good one for big classes - getting kids moving
- Shopping with Superlatives, comparatives
Jobs - From Johns ESL again. A little bit high level though. Here. Should be modified for lower levels.
From Edo Chan - GO fish Game
From Edo Chan - Excellent. Kids love this. Used with "do you enjoy" grammar point. Here
CrossWords Word Sleuths, Bingo, Sheets Etc - Ideas on How to easily make them, and make them more interesting.
Stereotypes - Internationalization in action. Use the multimedia Simpsons plan. Or, use this plan from About.com.
Writing Postcards worksheet.
Famous Person Party - I use this in conjunction with the famous people clip art page. I attach a different picture to each page, then the kids mingle and try and invite each other to their party. If the kid can come, he signs the persons sheet on the back. The person with the most sigs at the end is the winner. Rank the top 5 most popular identities on the board for laughs. First time I played, Saddam Hussein won.
Japanese Culture - Getting the kids to teach you about their culture in English. Or try this nice activity from edochan
Mood Cards - Reading the text can be boring. In order to spice it up for the kids, and have them practice dialogs in a new way, I use mood cards randomly drawn each class. We use one new mood and teach that by demonstrating it to the kids.
Opposites - Worksheet.
Design an Island - Got this from Kobe. Works well in class especially once occupations, imperatives and buildings have been taught
Gap fill Exercise for teens. I will use this same example but with Japanese and foreign stars at a later date. The setout is good, but the ideas are crappy.
For Younger Learners
SpiderMan is in vogue now among the kids. Try using some of these worksheets for your younger learners.
Draw your own monster and learn body parts. Nice worksheet.
Prepositions for the littlelies.