A Halloween memory game for young learners.
Press the spacebar to show the pictures one at a time. Press again: the pictures shuffle and one disappears - students say which one is missing, then press again to reveal the answer. 3 batches, 15 rounds.
Language: "What's missing?" "The pumpkin!"
Vocabulary (17 words): bat, broom, cauldron, costume, devil, ghost, gravestone, monster, mummy, pumpkin, skeleton, spider, spider web, sweets, vampire, werewolf, witch.
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Halloween What's Missing? - memory game PowerPoint (vocabulary)

Original TeachAgent printable: speaking board game practising Wh-questions for primary English / ESL. Includes board, Easy deck (sentence starters), Stretch deck (stem-only), and rules. Colour and black-and-white versions combined in this one file. Free for classroom use. Teacher-facing site: https://teachagent.app/speak-and-play/harbour-express.html

Harbour Express — Wh-questions board game (primary ESL)

A Halloween memory game for young learners.
Halloween pictures hide behind barn doors, shutters and space doors. Show the pictures, close the doors, then students remember and say what was behind each door before you open it to check.
Vocabulary (15 words): bat, broom, cauldron, devil, ghost, gravestone, monster, mummy, pumpkin, skeleton, spider, spider web, vampire, werewolf, witch.
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Halloween Memory Doors - PowerPoint memory game (vocabulary)

Simple presentation for children to help them with understanding and pronouncing the long vowel sounds in a standard format with vowel, consonant then the E at the end of the word. 

Pronunciation of Long Vowel Sound for kids

A classroom objects reading game for early readers.
Click a lettered box to reveal a word and a numbered box to reveal a picture. Students read the word and guess which number hides its picture: "A is number 3!" Click again to cover a box back up; the ! buttons show or hide every box at once. 2 rounds of 12 words.
Language: "It's a pencil!"
Round 1: book, crayons, desk, glue, highlighter, notebook, pen, pencil, rubber, ruler, school bag, scissors.
Round 2: calculator, clock, computer, globe, lunch box, paintbrush, paints, paper clip, pencil case, sharpener, stapler, whiteboard.
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School Objects Word to Picture Matching - reading PowerPoint game

A weather memory pairs game for young learners.
Click a numbered box to reveal the hidden picture. Students take turns to open two boxes and find the matching pictures. A match? Say the word together! No match? Click both pictures to cover them up and remember where they were.
Language: "It's sunny!" "It's windy and cold!"
Vocabulary: cloudy, cold, foggy, hot, partly cloudy, rainbow, rainy, snowy, stormy, sunny, thunder, windy.
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Weather Picture Matching (memory pairs) - PowerPoint game

A whole-class Halloween spelling game for young learners.
Say the word and ask students to spell it aloud. Click the numbered boxes in order to reveal each letter and check their spelling, then click the ? box to reveal the picture. 17 words to spell.
Vocabulary: bat, broom, cauldron, costume, devil, ghost, gravestone, monster, mummy, pumpkin, skeleton, spider, spider web, sweets, vampire, werewolf, witch.
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Halloween Spelling Game - PowerPoint (17 Halloween words)

A phonics code-breaking game with number words from one to twenty.
Students say the word for each clue picture and find the letter it starts with. Click a numbered box to reveal the letter hidden underneath, blend the letters to read the secret word, then click the ? box to reveal the answer picture.
Language: "O - N - E. It's ONE!"
Vocabulary: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
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Numbers 1-20 Secret Code - phonics PowerPoint game (first sounds + blending)

A fruit memory pairs game for young learners.
Click a numbered box to reveal the hidden picture. Students take turns to open two boxes and find the matching pictures. A match? Say the word together! No match? Click both pictures to cover them up and remember where they were.
Language: "It's a banana!" "They are grapes!"
Vocabulary: apple, avocado, banana, cherries, coconut, fig, grapes, kiwi, lemon, lime, mango, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, plum, raspberry, strawberry, watermelon.
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Fruit Picture Matching (memory pairs) - PowerPoint game

A whole-class spelling game with number words.
Say the word and ask students to spell it aloud. Click the numbered boxes in order to reveal each letter and check their spelling, then click the ? box to reveal the picture. 32 words to spell.
Vocabulary: one to twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million.
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Numbers Spelling Game - PowerPoint (one to one million)

A phonics code-breaking game with colour words.
Students say the word for each clue picture and find the letter it starts with. Click a numbered box to reveal the letter hidden underneath, blend the letters to read the secret word, then click the ? box to reveal the answer picture.
Language: "R - E - D. It's RED!"
Vocabulary: black, blue, brown, gold, green, grey, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, teal, violet, white, yellow.
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Colours Secret Code - phonics PowerPoint game (first sounds + blending)

Basic: Learners identify the mode of transportation (e.g., truck, boat) -- perhaps plural and 
 gender.
Next: Learners respond with a sentence using the object shown.
N.B.: There are only pictures, so this can be used in any language (though, e.g., skis and skates 
 might not be relevant for some classes)

Solutions:

 English
Montage (presented to get into the mood, not necessarily to be used for identifying)
bike/bicycle
wheel/wagon wheel
wagon/child's wagon
wagon/covered wagon
car/auto/automobile
van/minivan
truck (US)/dump truck (US)/dumper truck (UK)/dumper lorry (UK)/dumper (UK)/tipper lorry (UK)/tip lorry (UK)
train/locomotive/train engine/engine
plane/airplane [US]/aeroplane [UK]
bus/school bus
boat/sailboat/sail boat
ship/cruise ship/passenger ship
rocket/rocketship
boat/rowboat/row boat/rowing boat (UK)/dinghy
montage (repeat)

Deutsch 
die Bildmontage
das Rad/das Fahrrad
das Rad/das Wagenrad
der Wagen/der Kinderwagen
der Wagen/der Planwagen
das Auto/der PKW
der Kleinbus/der Minivan/(Lieferwagen wenn ohne Seitenfenster)
der Lkw/der Lastwagen/der Laster 
der Zug/die Lok/die Lokomotive
der Flugzeug
der Bus
das Boot/das Segelboot
das Schiff/das Kreuzfahrtschiff/das Passagierschiff/das Fahrgastschiff  
die Rakete/das Raketenschiff
das Boot/das Ruderboot
die Bildmontage


Español
el montaje
la bici/la bicicleta 
la rueda/al rueda de carreta
el carro/el carro para niños
el carro/el carro cubierto
el automóvil/el coche/el carro
la microbus/la minivan/(la furgoneta - cuando sin ventanillas laterales)
el camión 
el tren/la locomotora
el avión
el autobús/el bus
 el barco/la lancha/el velero
el barco/el buque/el nave/el barco de crucero/el crucero
el cojete
el barco/el chinchero/el barco de remos/el bote de remos
el montaje

Modes of Transportation (slide presentation of pictures of common modes of presentation; pictures taken from free clip art)

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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