Game List

1. Who’s in Your Family Tree? 14. Find Out Something Amazing

2. Name Your Top Five… About...
3. What’s the Film? 15. Presenting… My Hobby
4. Trip to Mars 16. In the News
5. Business Challenge 17. Can You Predict the Future?
6. Vote for the Class President 18. Advertise This!
7. Find Your Horoscope 19. Design a Monster
8. Moral Dilemmas 1 20. Meet a Monster
9. Moral Dilemmas 2 21. The Class Hero
10. Moral Dilemma: The Hot-Air 22. Visit London Challenges
Balloon 23. Visit London Tube Challenges
11. Visit to an Alien Planet 24. Class Survey
12. Job Interview 1 25. Word Association
13. Job Interview 2 26. It’s a Dog’s Life!
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Who’s in Your Family Tree?
Steps:
1. Draw your family tree.
2. If you can, find out more about each person. 3.
Present your family tree to the class. 4.
Answer three questions from your classmates.
What do
they do?
Where were What do they
they born? look like?

What do they
How old are like doing?
they?

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 Name Your Top Five...
Instructions: Click on the box to reveal the question. Extra points for saying why
these are your favourites.

What are What are your top five

What are Who are your top five your top ?
pizza toppings?
your top
? ?
superheroes? ?
five
five snacks?
books?
What are your
What are your top five ?
top five pets?
What are your ?
What are your
top five games?
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school subjects?
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top five ways to
travel?
What are
What are What are your
your top
your top top five places
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What are your top five
? ?
five to visit in your
town?
five
films?
kinds of fruit? songs?

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What’s the Film?
Instructions: Your teacher will find a suitable film trailer online. Students will be
put into pairs.
Student A will watch the video and tell their partner (Student B) what they’re seeing
- without saying the names of the characters or actors, of course.
Student B will have their eyes closed and listen to the description from their
partners. Can they guess what the film is?

Phrases to help describing:

It’s a
It’s some They’re
It looks like… cartoon/action/r
kind of… wearing…
omantic comedy.

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Trip to Mars
Instructions: Good afternoon!

You have been chosen for a trip to Mars. You’ll live

there for five years. You can take five people of five
different professions with you. Who will you take and
why?

I think we should I think we should

take a gardener, take an engineer,
because… because…

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Business Challenge
Instructions:
There’s an old building in the centre of your nearest town.

The town has decided to give the

building (and £50,000) to the person
with the best business plan. Prepare
yours!

Think about:
- what you’ll sell, and how much it’ll cost.
- who your ‘target market’ will be.
- what will make your product different.
Then answer questions from - how you will design the inside of the building.
your classmates. The best - how you will advertise your business.
business idea wins!

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Vote for the Class President
Instructions: Next week, your teacher is going on
holiday! You need to elect a class president who will be in
charge while your teacher is away. You are all candidates.
Write eight sentences with the rules you would have if
you were the class president.

Students Students
Students will will be Students won’t won’t be
have to… able to… have to… able to...

Ask questions to all the candidates and then vote. Who

will be the class president?

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Find Your Horoscope
What’s your star sign? Do you believe in astrology?

Find a chart with predictions about

your star sign for this year.

Tell the class what you found out.

Were the predictions correct?

What do you predict will happen to

you next year?

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Moral Dilemmas 1
You broke your mum’s vase while she was out of the house.
1. She thinks your sibling did it. Will you confess?

You knocked over a newly planted tree in your grandparents' garden while you
2. were playing. They think it blew over in the wind. Will you confess?

A friend invited you to their party and you said you’d come, even though it’s
3. going to be boring. Now your best friend is going to have a party on the same
night, and it’s going to be great. Which one will you go to?

You buy something in a shop. When you leave, you realise that the
4. cashier gave you too much change. Do you go back in and
them the extra money?
give

5. You accidentally find your sister’s diary. Do you read it?

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Moral Dilemmas 2
1. You make a machine that will stop global warming. Will you give it away for free or sell it?

2. Someone is saying mean things about your friend behind their back. What do you say?

Your mum has bought you a new T-shirt for a family party next week. It’s the ugliest thing
3. you’ve ever seen. Do you tell her, or just stay silent and wear it?

4. You see your friend cheating on a maths test that you studied very hard for.
do?
What do you

You’re in a bakery. You see a man steal a loaf of bread. He looks very poor. What do
5. you do?

6. You’re sitting on the bus, and you see a £20 note on the floor in front of you. There are people
sitting on the chairs in front. What do you do?

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Moral Dilemma: The Hot-Air Balloon
Instructions:
Pick a celebrity to be. (Real or imaginary, alive or dead).
Five ‘celebrities’ will be chosen from the group to go on a hot-
air balloon expedition.

During the trip, the fuel is running low and the basket is
too heavy. One of the celebrities will have to jump out into
the sea… and almost certain death!

The five ‘celebrities’ have the chance to argue why they

should be saved… and why another celebrity should die!

Students can vote on who should have to jump out.

Continue until there is only one celebrity left in the hot-air balloon
basket.
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Visit an Alien Planet
Instructions:
Congratulations! You made it to Mars. The only thing is…
you’re not alone. There are aliens here!

The whole world is waiting for a video message about your

experiences. Write some notes about what you want to say and
present to your class. Remember to include:

1. How the journey went.

2. What Mars looks like.
3. What your camp looks like.
4. How you discovered the aliens.
5. What the aliens are like.
6. What challenges you have had.
7. A special message for your family
and friends at home.

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Job Interview 1
Instructions: Read the job description.
Student A: You are the
interviewer. Plan some
questions to ask your
CITY TOUR GUIDE NEEDED
candidates.
To work Saturday mornings.
Student B: You want this
Must be responsible and friendly. Must have job! Think of the relevant
experience working in a team, preferably in a skills and experience that
leadership role. might help you to get the
job.
To apply for this job you must also have a good
level of English and know a little bit about your Role-play the interview and
town. feed back to the class. Did
the candidate get the job?
Why or why not?

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Job Interview 2
Instructions: Read the job description.
Student A: You are the
interviewer. Plan some
questions to ask your
SUMMER CAMP HELPER NEEDED candidates.

To work Monday to Friday during the Student B: You want this

month of August. job! Think of the relevant
skills and experience that
Must be good at working with children. might help you to get the
Must be good at leading activities in art, job.
drama or sports. Must have a good level
Role-play the interview and
of English. feed back to the class. Did
the candidate get the job?
Why or why not?

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Find Out Something Amazing About...
Instructions: Choose a topic and do some research.
Tell your class five amazing facts that you found out!

Mushrooms
Volcanoes Coral reefs and fungi Dolphins Ants

Dinosaurs Frogs Black holes Our solar Bats

system

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Presenting… My Hobby!
Instructions: Think about what you’re really good at.

Can you teach your class something about your hobby?

Prepare some notes on what you

want to say.

Your classmates will ask you

questions after your presentation.

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In the News
Instructions: Take a look at a respected international, national or local newspaper.
You could also use Twinkl NewsRoom.

What’s the most interesting story? Read the story and make notes.

Present what you’ve learnt to your class.

What do you all think about this news story?

What new words did you learn while
reading?

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Can You Predict the Future?
Instructions: Imagine the year 2050. Can you make some predictions with
your partner?

Transport Homes Friends and Family

• Will we build floating cities
• Will we have jetpacks for • Will people still get married?
on the sea?
short journeys? • Will people have more or
• Will we have carbon-neutral
• Will we have electric planes? fewer children than now?
homes?
• Will we travel more or less • Will we communicate with
• Will our homes be bigger or
than now? friends via hologram?
smaller than now?

Technology and Media Work Education

• Will most people work from • Will students learn at home or

• What new technology will
home in 2050? at school?
exist?
• What new jobs will people • What new subjects will
• Will robots do surgeries?
do? children learn in 2050?
• Will robots clean our houses?
• What jobs will no longer • What languages will students
• Will we have AI?
exist? learn?

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Advertise This!
Instructions: Pick an object from your desk. Now make a TV advert to sell it to your
classmates!

Remember to include:
• A description of your object
• What you can do with it
• Why it’s better than other similar objects
• Where you can buy it
• How much it costs
• Any special offers

Find out how many people will buy your product!

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Design a Monster
Instructions: Secretly draw a monster in your notebook. You can be as creative as
you like!

Without showing anyone your picture,

describe your monster to a friend, who has to
draw it in their notebook. Compare the two
monsters. Do they look the same or
different?

Now that you’ve drawn your monsters, can

you think of names and personalities for
them? Where do they live? What do they
like and what are they scared of?

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Meet a Monster
Instructions: Use your monsters from the previous game. Imagine
you are going to meet them! Think of eight questions you’d like to
ask.

Have you ever…

What’s your Do you
favourite… sometimes…

How many…
What do you…
Where do you…

Now role-play the interview, with one student playing the monster.

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A Class Hero
Instructions: Think of someone that you know personally (not a celebrity) that
you really admire. Make some notes on:

• Their basic information (name, age etc)

• Their life story
• Why you admire them
• The best time you’ve spent together

Present to the class. Ask and answer questions.

Who does the class most admire? They are
your new class hero!

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Visit London Challenges
Buy a cup of tea in a cafe! Visit the London Aquarium!

Remember to: Remember to:

• Say hello. • Say hello.

• Find out how much a medium • Ask how much a ticket is.
cup of tea costs. • Ask if they have a student
• Ask to have it ‘to take away’. discount.
• Ask where the sugar is. • Ask if they have a guide book.
• Ask where the toilet is. • Ask what time the aquarium
• Say thank you! closes.

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Visit London Tube Challenges
Instructions: Look at a map of the Underground.
Choose a starting point. Ask your partner ‘How do I
get to from here?’ and see if your
partner can describe the journey.

Tell your partner what station you’re starting

at. Describe a journey. Don’t say your final
destination - see if your partner can follow
your description and guess.

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Class Survey
Instructions: Choose a question, or invent one of your own:

• How many people in your class have a pet dog?

• How many people in your class know how to skateboard?
• How many people in your class know how to make a cake?
• How many people in your class like pineapple on pizza?
• How many people in your class can count to ten in three languages?

Make a prediction.

Survey the class to find out if you were correct.

Feedback to the class.

Invent your own question and play again!

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Word Association
Instructions: Make a circle (or decide the order in which you will speak).

One student says a word. Then, the next student says the first word they think of
when they hear that word. Continue on like this.

Holiday Beach Sun Hot Drink

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It’s a Dog’s Life!
Instructions: Imagine you are your pet (or someone else’s pet)!
Talk about your day.

Remember to include:

• What you do every day

• Your favourite and least favourite things
• How you feel
• What you want to do in the future
• What your ‘people’ are like

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