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Alphabet Sequence Practice ・Reading /Individual - Students start at the top right and circle all the letters of the alphabet from A to Z as quickly as possible 10 minutes.

Alphabet Race (PDF) Students race to the board to circle the right answer. 10 min.

How Are You Bingo The Students Learn different ways to answer ‘How are you?’. They then practice interview people in the class taking down names along the way. After everyone is finished the teacher can play name bingo. 20 minutes.

Alphabet Drawing The students draw a line in alphabetical order to create a picture. 15 min. alphabet answers

ABC Sudoku The students try to complete the chart using the alphabet letter just once (like sudoku). 20 minutes sheet B sheet C

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O-Hello Milling activity where students are filling in info on a worksheet. 45 min.

I Do Not Like Them Sam I Am The students make name tags and introduce themselves to the class or individual classmates. 20 min

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Who in the World Are You? Milling activity where students are gathering information. 25 min.

We are the World Milling activity where students try to complete a sheet of nationalities. 15 min.

Correction Detective Writing Students make the appropriate corrections on the paper. 15 minutes. Worksheet

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Are You From the UK?  Speaking/ Listening Student mill around the room looking for a specific country. 15 min.

I am Kitty-Chan. Are You Kitty-Chan? Speaking The students choose a character to start. They then walk around the room playing a janken game (rock, paper, scissors with a person with the winner being A in the dialogue). The students then write their partner’s real name in the box at the bottom. 10 minutes.

Are You Snoopy? Read & Run The teacher puts the 6 Q&A sentences in 6 different places around the room. The students are given this worksheet to complete. The students run around the room remembering the sentences and relaying them to their group members. 30 minutes.

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1 Nensei Show and Tell Students have an object that they will introduce to the class. 20 min.

My Buddy, My Buddy and Me. Students draw a character then introduce it to other people. 20min.

Liar! Liar! Speaking activity. Students walk around trying to identify their classmates lies. 20 min. (some PDF pics here)

Stop Thief! (PDF) Teacher goes around the room stealing stuff from the students who have their head down. They then try to identify their belongings. 10 min.

This is My Friend Gus Writing/speaking A simple activity to get the students to introduce someone. 10 min.

This is My Teacher. A speaking/milling activity where the students have cards and walk around trying to collect other people’s cards 20 min.

Pictionary, Famous People, and Mystery Boxes Various games that get the students to use target sentence. 45 min.

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Is That a Monkey? Mystery objects on paper are around the room. Students, in pairs, must work together to find out what all the objects are. 30 min

Is that Sazae-san? Three easy activities to practice this grammar point. 15 min.

Is This Your Gun?  Students pull objects from a bag and guess the owner. 15 min.

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She’s From Outer Space  Students draw a character on paper and introduce it to everyone. 30 min

This is Mino Monta. He’s from Tokyo. Students get character cards and introduce them to their classmates. 30 min.

numbers

Can I Have Your Number? In a bag, have a copy of each number.  Draw out a number from the bag and read off the telephone number.  The student with that number is “it” and draws out the next number to read. 10 min.

Cryptograms Students work alone or in pairs and try to decipher sentences. 20 min

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My Name is Caesar. I like Tripe. Part 1--listening/speaking. Individually, the ALT and JTE both do a short intro (Hello/My name is/I like). They ask students to tell them what they said, in English, and record what students say on the board. Then ask students the meaning of the statements in Japanese. 20 mins. Part 2--writing/speaking/listening. individual/pairs. Students write self intro (my name is, I play) on 6 cards, then stand up and play janken, loser reciting from the card and then giving it to the winner. 25 mins.

Who Are You? Writing/speaking/listening Students write their own introduction then play a ‘who am I?’ game with a partner. 20 min.

Pass the Ball Speaking, Groups, Students pass balls representing various sports to each other while repeating the target sentence I like/play. 20 minutes.

I Like Hard Miffy Speaking The Students walk around trying to collect cards using the grammar points ‘Ilike  ‘ ‘I play   ‘ 20 min.

Do You Like Bingo? Speaking/listening Students walk around asking their classmates questions in order to fill out a bingo chart. After, the teacher leads the class in name bingo. 20 minutes.

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I Have a Question  Writing /Individual  a decorated worksheet asking the students if they play or like a range of sports, characters, activities etc, to practice Yes, I do / no, I don’t. 10 minutes

Excuse Me, Do You Like Me? Speaking/listening A milling activity for the students to practice asking questions 20 min.

I Like/Play Bingo Speaking The Students walk around asking each other questions trying to get bingo 20 min.

Do You Play Othello? Speaking/Writing The students walk around the room talking to people in order to complete their worksheet by writing in someone’s name and circling yes or no for each box. After they finish they can write sentences about all the people they talked to. 25 minutes.

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Run to the Board. Team writing game. Teacher says a sentence, ‘I like football. I don’t like tennis’. Rows run to the board one person at a time and write one word of the sentence before running back to their seat allowing the next person to go. 15min.

Grammar Gamble Reading. Individual/Pairs/ Groups Students read the sentence and bet points on if they think it is correct or incorrect. 20 minutes.

I Don’t Like Penalty Shootouts Pairs. Students ask each other questions trying to get points. 20 min

I Don’t Like Mickey Mouse An interview game where students carry on a conversation about specific pop culture people. 15 minutes.

Who Am I? Speaking/ Listening Students ask their partner questions to find out which person they are. 15 minutes. PDF

Do you live in Japan?(A) (B) Students in pairs try to guess who their partner’s identity is. Note: A and B should be front and back. 20 minutes

Do You Like Music? Speaking/Listening Each student has a card. They must walk around the room and exchange info with people to find out who has the same card as theirs. When they find their partner, they janken and the loser gives their card to the winner and goes to the teacher to collect a new card. ＊If you print up 4 sheets, there will be 8 of the same card. 20 minutes. PDF

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It’s a Baby Hummingbird  blindfolded student has to guess what he is holding by listening to the hints he gets from the class. 20 min

What’s That? Speaking/listening Conversation practice using the grammar point, first in pairs then in groups.25 min.

Mystery Box Students have to identify the contents of six mystery boxes. 20 min.

What is This? Students must guess what the close up pictures are of. There is a hint box to help them. 15min

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Find the Old Pen (PDF) Students work in pairs and are given slips of paper with objects to find inside the classroom. 20 min.

What Food Do You Like? Conversation Students are in pairs and practice using the information in the chart. 15 min.

What’s Your Favourite Food? Pairs. Speaking/Writing Students ask their partner questions to fill out a questionnaire. 15 min.

What’s Your Favorite Subject? Speaking. Bingo game where students have to ask each other their favorite subject and say something about it using one or more adjectives. A full house is required before a student can sit down! 15 mins. (PDF file)

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What do you ~ ?  Bingo/Interview game

What Do You Have? Pairwork. Students must draw some objects in their bag, then ask their partner what they have in their bag. When they have the answers they can draw them into their own bag. 20 min

Review

Who Am I? Speaking Students mill around the room finding partners. When they find a partner they introduce themselves and their partner tries to guess who they are. 15 minutes.

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Hamburger Shop Props A MOS Burger menu and props to use

I’m Lovin’ It Speaking activity. Using the worksheet students take turns as the clerk, and customer. Students note down their friends order. 30 minutes　

The S Game Speaking activity where the students practice the plural ‘s’. 15 min.

The Monster in Me Students draw a monster and walk around the room using the grammar point. 20 min.

Find your Clone. Speaking/individual. Students are given a slip of paper with a famous person (on handout). One other student in the class is given the same one. They must find each other. Students mill around the room interview and recording their interviewee’s answers. 30 minutes.

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How Many Books Do You Have? plurals activity reading / speaking This is a word search activity. Students try to find the listed words within a time limit, the catch is that there is more than one of each word. After this activity the students then ask each other "how many dictionaries have you got?" and record the results. 35min.

How Many Sports Do You Play? Listening/Speaking Students ask questions to their partner in order to fill out a chart. 10 min.

Plural Battleships Speaking/Listening Students, in pairs, play battleships practicing using plurals. 20 min.

How Many Camels Do You Have A & B Speaking/Listening. Pairwork. Students ask their partners about how many animals they have and then draw in the right amount. 25 min.

How Many Colas Do You Have? A & B Speaking/Listening. Pairwork. Students ask their partner how many of each food and drink they have in their picture. 15 min. (PDF file)

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Monkey See, Monkey Do  (gameboard) Reading/Speaking Students play a board game that has them use imperative phrases. 40-50 min.

On Monday, Let’s Have Lunch speaking/writing activity. Students walk around, meeting partners and suggesting ‘On [day] let’s [do something]’. 15 mins. worksheet（PDF file）

Days of the Week Battleship speaking/listening Students play battleships but using the target sentence ‘Do you ____ on _____ ?’ 25 minutes.

Word Box

Wordsearch a couple wordsearch activities to help with the spelling of the days of the week. 15 min. Another one here.

Days of the Week Spelling Race / Students run to the board to spell the days of the week. 15 min 

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Read, Tell, Listen and Draw This is a whisper/drawing/race activity. Students work in their rows. The last person in the row reads a sentence and tells it to the person in front of them. When the first person in the row has heard the sentence she goes to the blackboard and draws a picture. Students race against each other, and the first team to finish drawing a set of pictures wins. 20 min.

Introduce Your Friend Speaking/listening. An activity that practices 3rd person. Students introduce their friend / a famous person / sports player... 30 minutes

Rex Plays Tennis Warm-up listening activity. Students listen to you read sentences and circle the appropriate picture. 10 min.

My Friend Students must draw a picture in the frame, then describe their friend using ___ likes ___ etc. they can then stand up and introduce their friends to others or the whole class. 20 min.

Elmo Likes Bananas Listening Students listen to the teacher read off a character’s likes and dislikes while checking off the appropriate picture. 10 minutes

Doraemon Likes Mushrooms Listening Whispers group activity utilizing the students desire to draw. 20 minutes.

Sasha Wants a Banana speaking activity. 3^rd person ‘s’ practice. Students armed with a character card and a sheet of who likes/plays/wants/studies try and collect signatures for all their characters. 10-15 mins. worksheet (PDF file)

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This is My Friend Students choose a friend, family member or pet to draw and write about using a worksheet. They practice introducing their person to others by showing a picture and reading the person’s likes, dislikes and hobbies. Other students ask questions about the person using ‘Does he/she~?’ 15 min.

Spaceships A battleships game 20 min.

Guess Who! Speaking/ Listening Pair work Students secretly choose a person that their partners must guess. 20 minutes.

He Likes Natto Speaking/Listening In pairs, the students choose an identity that must be guessed by their partner. 20 min.

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Does Sally Like Doraemon? An interview pairwork game where students have to guess their partner’s answers. 15 minutes.

Hard Miffy Doesn’t Speak English Pair work. Speaking. Simple Battleships game to practice ‘doesn’t’ on its own. 15 mins. (PDF file)

Anagrams Writing Students must unscramble words found in Unit 6. 10 minutes. (PDF File) Solutions

Jeopardy listening/speaking Students play a Jeopardy game (explanation) to review vocab and grammar. 30 minutes.

Speaking Plus

Which Bus Goes to City Hall? Speaking/Listening The students work in pairs. Using the handout they slowly get to find out what house they will live in. 20 minutes.

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Who’s This? Students draw a picture and then use it to practice asking their classmates, “Who is this?”　15 min.

Who’s That Teacher? A drawing activity that gets the students to guess the teacher each other has drawn. 15 min.

Who is (****)? Pairwork, information gap game. Speaking and writing. Students either get sheet A or B and must ask ‘Who is______________?’, using each other’s sheet to find out the mystery people are. 10-15 mins.

Guess Who? Group/pairwork A ‘guess who’ game where the other person/group has to guess which person you have chosen by asking questions. 20 minutes.

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What Time Do You ? Pair work. Students fill in the times for themselves, then ask their partners what time they do certain things during the day. 20 min

What Time Is It? Students have a clock board that they go over the room with. They get the other students to answer their question of ‘what time is it?’ with their next possible answer, gradually working their way around the clock. 15 min.

What Time Is It? 2  A writing worksheet for the students to practice writing out the English for different times. 10 min.

Human Clock listening. Students are in groups and replicate the times that the teacher announces. 20 min.

What Time is It? 3 Interview game, whole class. Speaking and listening. Students must find out ten different times from different partners. 10-15 minutes.

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Are you Dobunezumi? Interview game. Speaking. Practice questions about how many classes you have, how long they are, etc. 10-15 mins.

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Godzilla is a Member of the Kendo Club Speaking, pairwork. Standard battleships game to practice ‘[someone] is a member of the [something] club.’ 10-15 mins.

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Where’s Miffy? Speaking/Pairs. Students choose where they want the characters to be on the world map and try to guess their partner’s answers. 20 minutes. Worksheet 2

I’m Late (A & B) Speaking/Listening Pairwork. Students ask their partner for the whereabouts of certain items on their worksheet. 20 minutes. (PDF file)

Where is the elephant? Pairwork, information gap game. Speaking. Students get either sheet A or B. The student must then draw the object in its place on the unfinished picture. 10-15 mins.

Sudoku Writing Kids play Sudoku using question words. 20 min.

Where is the Mouse?(A) (B) Speaking/Listening Students, in pairs, try to complete their house by asking where certain objects are and drawing them in. 25 min.

Preposition Board Game Where is the boy? He's in the desk! In lunch groups students play the board game. One student is the"game master" asking the questions. Need die, and place markers. (two files for this activity. Board game and Game master) 20 minutes

Where's Kitty? Listening /Writing /Drawing / Students listen as teacher dictates where Kitty is in each picture. 15 -20 min

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This is Yuki’s Grammar Ball Students will write two true sentences about themselves on pieces of paper then crumple them and put them in the bags that the JTE and ALT bring around. Teams are divided up by rows of students. Afterwards, the first student in each row is given one ‘grammar ball’ from the bag. The students uncrumple one paper and guess whose they think it is by reading the two sentences and saying ‘This is Yuki’s. She likes grape soda. She plays tennis.’

Whose Dog is Big? First is a warm-up writing exercise. Next, cut out the six sets of statements. Have the first kids in each line stand up at the front, choose a set and read out the four sentences. ALT then asks three questions, "whose house is ~~?", "whose dog is ~~"? and "whose sister is in ~~" questions, kids have to try to remember who said what. Repeat down the lines so everyone has a turn at the front. If played right you will get a cheap laugh every time one of them has to say "my house is pink", particularly if they`re one of the baseball tough guys. 25 min.

Whose Nose is This? ALT or JTE will hold up obscure bits of famous characters and ask ‘Whose is this?’ Students will guess through competition whose ‘hand’ or ‘nose’ etc it is by answering ‘It’s   ‘s.’ 10 min.

Whose...is This? An extended version of the let's try on this page, with 8 people and things to match up. 15 min

Whose Cap Is This? Speaking/Listening A simple activity that gets the students to ask their partner questions in order to fill out a chart. 10 min.

Whose Eyebrows are These? A writing exercise where the students try to guess whose features belong to who. 10 min.

Whose Key Is This? Speaking/Listening A pairwork activity where students ask each other who owns what objects. 15 minutes. Activity not using ‘these’ here.

Are These Hamburgers? Reading/Writing A Read and Run-type activity. The students are to go up to the paper on the wall, read the question and look at the picture to see if it correct. 25 minutes.

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Who Do you Like? Speaking/class activity. Students walk around the room asking other students if they like the celebrities on their worksheet. If they answer ‘yes’ they sign the paper. 15 min.

He is My Friend Writing/Reading Group activity allowing the students to categorize pronouns and then use them correctly in a sentence. 45 min.

This is Mike. Do you know him? Interview game, whole class. Speaking. Students try to get rid of five character cards by practicing ‘This is ___________. Do you know him/her/them? 10-15mins.

Do you know him/ her? An interview/ card game where students will walk around the classroom and collect celebrity cards. 15 - 20 min

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Three Part Relay Students will perform a relay activity that consists of three parts.1.Acting out and verbally describing an action 2.Writing down a description of the action 3. Reporting back their description 25min.

Where’s Bob? Students will interview each other using the target grammar in order to identify characters in the handout. 20 min.

Kazu is Playing Piano Writing/Speaking A mindmaster game where the students try to guess their partner’s secret sentence. 20 minutes.

Are You Playing Battleships? Speaking, pairwork. Standard battleships game to practice present continuous questions. Generally charades is much more fun for this, but if your kids are crazy and violent, you can always rely on battleships. 10-15 minutes.

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Classroom Concentration Students divide into two teams. Each student has an activity card taped to his/her back, and each activity has a pair within the team. By asking and answering questions using the target grammar, students try to discover the opposing team’s pairs. 30 min.

What Are You Doing? Writing/speaking Students get to practice the grammar point through writing and a quick game of battleships. 20 min.

Are You Watching TV? Speaking Game where students try to guess each others identity 15 minutes.

What Are You Doing? Wordsearch Writing The students complete a wordsearch which helps them to complete sentences. The letters not chosen form a secret message. 15 minutes.

What is she doing?(A) (B) Listening/Speaking Students in pairs try to complete their worksheet by finding out what people are doing. 20 min.  

Are You Studying English? Writing/Reading A crossword puzzle for students to complete 10 minutes.

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Do it Now! Students have to try and match the pictures and the orders by writing the number of the order in the spaces provided next to the pictures. If the students are low level, allow them to translate each order on the sheet into Japanese in the space provided. Students Janken with each other. The winner gives the loser an order. The loser has to do whatever the order is and the sign the winner's sheet next to the order. The students love ordering each other around.15 min.

Don’t Speak Japanese For this game, the ALT performs an action in front of the room. The students must tell the ALT not to do what they are doing using the negative command form. 10 min.

Don’t Do That! Interview game, whole clas