Here is a writing game I created.  I'm calling it "Sentence Craft", as it's Minecraft-themed and involves building sentences.  It's like Telepathy meets Place Your Bets, if you know those.  My students always enjoy Telepathy, but I don't like the mindless copying, so this game tries to make them think a bit about what they're writing down.

The screenshot probably explains it adequately.  On each slide, students see a sentence frame, choose words or phrases from a list of options to complete it, and then write the result.  Some of the choices are between correct and incorrect English, and some are between equally correct alternatives.  Making an incorrect choice gives 0 points for the whole sentence.  Choosing correctly gives students a chance at randomly-assigned points based on the other choices they made.

Any feedback will be appreciated; I'm trying this out for the first time today. 

Some graphics were borrowed from seonsaengnim's Minecraft Bomb Game (http://www.waygook.org/index.php?topic=39441.0).


Also, if anyone is looking for a slightly easier song, "Going Green" by Have Fun Teaching uses almost all of the target vocabulary (though not the same grammar).  It's a bit lame but my students are tolerating it.  We only sing the first two verses, bridge, and chorus.  Lyrics are in the video description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsWhJX7Ihiw

This looks like so much fun! I really love the idea- thanks for sharing it!!

Here is a writing game I created.  I'm calling it "Sentence Craft", as it's Minecraft-themed and involves building sentences.  It's like Telepathy meets Place Your Bets, if you know those.  My students always enjoy Telepathy, but I don't like the mindless copying, so this game tries to make them think a bit about what they're writing down.

The screenshot probably explains it adequately.  On each slide, students see a sentence frame, choose words or phrases from a list of options to complete it, and then write the result.  Some of the choices are between correct and incorrect English, and some are between equally correct alternatives.  Making an incorrect choice gives 0 points for the whole sentence.  Choosing correctly gives students a chance at randomly-assigned points based on the other choices they made.

Any feedback will be appreciated; I'm trying this out for the first time today. 

Some graphics were borrowed from seonsaengnim's Minecraft Bomb Game (http://www.waygook.org/index.php?topic=39441.0).


Also, if anyone is looking for a slightly easier song, "Going Green" by Have Fun Teaching uses almost all of the target vocabulary (though not the same grammar).  It's a bit lame but my students are tolerating it.  We only sing the first two verses, bridge, and chorus.  Lyrics are in the video description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsWhJX7Ihiw

Period 1:
- As a warm-up, I showed them the very beginning of the Wall-E movie and asked them what had happened to the Earth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLx_7wEmwms).
- For this period, I focused on teaching them the "How about..." expressions. I made a ppt that shows pictures that prompted the key expression (e.g. animals stuck in plastic bags, then "How about taking a bag?").
- Afterward, we played a Crazy Circle game (the cards are at the end of the expressions ppt).
Rules: Make a large circle with chairs. Every student has 3 cards with pictures of the key expressions. One student (who has no chair) stands in the middle and says the key expression associated with one of his/her cards (e.g. "How about turning off the lights?"). Everyone with the same card stands up and switches chairs; the person left with no chair says a different key expression.  My kids LOVE this game and not being the person left in the middle is good motivation for them. It's a good game to practice listening.

Period 2:
- For this lesson I focused on the "We should..." expressions. I showed them a ppt first reviewing the "How about..." expressions and showing them how to change them into "We should..." expressions.
- Connect 4: I stole this game from somewhere else (I forget who) and modified it. The game is after at the end of the key expressions ppt.
- Garbageman Game: Stole this from Mr. C and modified it to make it (I think) simpler. It was a huge hit with all my classes (thanks, Mr. C!).

Period 4:
- Bridge Reading Race. Print out the story sentences (1 sentence per page) and tape them onto the floor in a bridge shape. Divide students into 2 teams and line them up on either end. On your signal, the first student from each team starts reading the sentences; when they meet in the middle, they play rock, paper, scissors. The winner gets to keep going, while the loser goes to the back of his line and a new teammate starts reading. Whichever team manages to read all the way across the bridge the most times wins.
- Sleeping Elephants game (I took Mr. C's Sleeping Dragon's ppt and modified it a lot to make sure my classes understood the game--I wasn't sure if they'd played it before).

Period 6:
- Poster contest. In teams of 4, students must draw 4 rooms in a house and draw/label as many things as they can think of that they can do to save the Earth. I give out a prize for the team with the most ideas and a prize for the team with the best drawing. I made a ppt (a pretty cool one, I think) showing them what to do. (There are lots of examples of other poster ideas at the end if you want different ideas.)
- Short video and discussion on helping the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9MFiWXR8M

Sorry there's not that much original content--I'm still new to EPIK and building up my repertoire of EFL games! This is my first every post here.

Introduction PowerPoint with guess the picture, memory game and short last man standing.

Last man standing review game (this game has never failed me).