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1. Picture This – Simple Switches

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card.

2. Guess What?

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   Players take turns using English to describe words on Guess What? cards.

3. Children’s Web Portal

   Format(s): Video, Website

   The official kids’ portal for the student and teacher pages of various U.S. Government agencies.

4. Environmental Kid’s Club

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   The Environmental Protection Agency’s Kid’s Center provides information and materials about the environment.

5. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

   Format(s): Website

   For kindergarten through high school curriculum. From the U.S. Government Printing Office.

6. Amazing Animals

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   “Animals” is a three-part lesson plan for young learners with a zoo animal theme. The first lesson is full of activities to describe animals, with Simon Says, guessing games, and learning stations. The second lesson is about desert animals, but other types of animals could be chosen depending on student interest. This lesson teaches prepositions of place. The final lesson, using the Language Experience Approach, leads up to a trip to the zoo (real or virtual). The class constructs a story of their experience and reads it together. Animal flashcards are included.

7. Guess What? - Mime the Words

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Mime the Words, the Describer is allowed to say the topic and nothing else. Instead, the Describer must describe the words on the Guess What? card using mime.

8. Guess What? Guess the Topic

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Guess the Topic, the Describer says the six words below the topic, slowly, one at a time. The Guessers try to guess the topic after each word is read.

9. Word Bricks- Parts of Speech

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   In Part of Speech, teacher gives the players a specific pattern to use, and their sentences must follow this pattern. Students use Word Bricks to build sentences individually, in pairs, or in small groups. This activity is great for lower proficiency level students, as it provides scaffolding to help students generate a correct sentence.

10. The Lighter Side

    In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    This activity has students fill in the blanks of a sentence with two words that sound the same but are spelled differently with different meanings (heterographs).

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