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How to play

What's this game?

Target language

Step by step

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How are you playing?

How will students play the game?

Choose your pictures

On the cards, show

… or choose your vocabulary from these groups

Options

Squares per game

Tap a picture to hear the word Uses the iPad’s own voice. Works offline. Mix up the colours The squares appear in a different order each game. A harder listen. Show the leaderboard Turn off for a friendly session with no scores or ranking on display.

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Previous dictations

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How are you playing?

Level

Who's here

0 iPads Drag a name to another iPad, or tap a name and then the iPad it should move to

Nobody has joined yet. Each iPad types the code and up to four names.

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How are you playing?

Level

Who's playing?

0 names

Enter player or team names below.

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A game to practise using prepositions like on, in, under, next to, and between.

Every child in a group gets the same picture and the same eight balls. Choose the picture.

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Choose your pictures

Can you find eight different things in each picture?

0 children

Picture A — the class has picture B

Show the answers

The class

Marked out of 8 the moment they finish.

My Picture Sets

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Your sets

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Add Words and Pictures

On the cards

My Classes

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Classes

Homework

Pairs — which cards?

Picture and word Pictures only Words only

Choose a class on the left to set it a task.

Learning journals

Show

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Your Card Sets

Tap a set to spell its words — tap two or three and all their words are shuffled together into one race. Every set in your picture library is here; a new one goes into the library for every game.

How will they spell?

How does it run?

Seconds per word

Time limit 30

Points: 50 for the right spelling, and up to 50 more the faster the tick is pressed.

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Word 1 of 10 0 answered

Each at their own pace 0 finished

Who's playing

0 children

Review answers

over 80% right 50–80% under half

The winners

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What's for sale

This game is designed to target countable and uncountable nouns. Select a roughly even number of countable and uncountable nouns from the lists below. Otherwise, play the game however you want!

Countable

Uncountable

Your own items

Type a word, then say whether it is countable ("one mango, two mangoes") or uncountable and sold by the jar, bag or bottle. Add a picture by pasting one, uploading one or searching the web. Your items stay on your account.

Difficulty

Easy
Every shopper should be able to buy everything they need. Hard
Some items are in short supply, and so some shoppers will be left unable to buy everything they need.

Shopping lists

Things on each list 5 Every shopper starts with £50

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Just joined

0Children land here as they join. Drag each name onto Shoppers or Sellers — or tap it.

Shoppers

Sellers

Shoppers

Sellers

Deals

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Your boards

Pictures on the squares

Your setsTap a set to put it on the board.

… or choose your vocabulary from these groups

On the board

The board

How long?

Square size

Special squares

Colour

A picture on each square in your order, the special squares spread along the path. Fewer pictures than squares? They go round again.

Your board

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Who is playing?

Up to six teams or players. Leave a box empty to skip it.

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ready

Children go to

and type

00000

Which town?

How are you playing?

Everyone in a group gets the same picture and colours it in. Each group is dealt a picture from the ones ticked below (all of them if none are ticked) — change a group's picture on its card here, or on the live board once the game is running.

Choose which pictures to use

Activity type

Choose which pictures to use

One learner in each group is given a picture to describe; everyone else draws blind, from their description alone. Choose who holds the picture, and which one, on each group's own card below — pick pictures that are different enough that nearby groups can't overhear the same answer. A group of three is two drawers and one describer.

Shouting Dictation

Document

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Who's here

0 children Tap two names to swap them

Not in a group

0 children

Who's following along

Ask “Where’s Grandma?” and watch them answer.

Groups

0 children

← Pairs or Groups

Ready to draw!

0 children Show everyone’s work

Everyone colours this picture. Tap one to choose it.

Show me their boards

Leaderboard

The game is running. Open the teacher dashboard above if you want to watch each group’s board.

Groups

Tap a group to see what they are drawing

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The teams

Timer

Seconds Passes per turn

On the board, show:

Picture Word Picture and word

Your own words

Word sets

Double-click on a set to edit it. No words chosen yet

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Add Words and Pictures

In this set

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Now

Words already played

Click on a word to play it again during this game.

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Who has joined

0 iPads Each iPad is two children, sharing it

Your Card Sets

No sets added yet.

What is on the two cards

Some of your words have no picture of their own, so those pairs will show as words on both cards whichever you choose.

…Or choose a set below

No set chosen yet

Regroup

Drag a name onto another to swap them, or tap two names

Who's playing

0 pairs

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Add Words and Pictures

On the cards

Picture Library

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Choose randomly, up to 15 blocks in total

9 of 15 blocks

On each block

…or choose your blocks!

Rolling at random

On the board

Press “Roll the Blocks” on the big screen — or here, if you cannot reach it.

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Type your own words

In this set

0 children

Click on the card to see your character.

Or choose one

0 children

Town

Your town

Who's playing

Town

0 children

Leaderboard

Everybody is marked against the teacher’s picture.

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Mr Lewis’s Barrier Games

How to play

What's this game?

Target language

Step by step

How are you playing?

Pairs or Groups

Play as a Class

How will students play the game?

They will drag and drop pictures into the squares.

They will type words in the squares.

Choose your pictures

On the cards, show

… or choose your vocabulary from these groups

Options

Choose your document

Previous dictations

Who's here

Who's playing?

A game to practise using prepositions like on, in, under, next to, and between.

Choose your pictures

Picture A — the class has picture B

The class

My Picture Sets

Your sets

Add Words and Pictures

My Classes

Classes

Homework

Learning journals

Your Card Sets

How will they spell?

Scrambled tiles

Type the word

How does it run?

All together

Each at their own pace

Seconds per word

Who's playing

Review answers

The winners

What's for sale

Countable

Uncountable

Your own items

Difficulty

Shopping lists

Just joined

Shoppers

Sellers

Shoppers

Sellers

Deals

Your boards

Pictures on the squares

The board

Your board

Who is playing?

Which town?

How are you playing?

Pairs or Groups

Play as a Class

Shouting Dictation

Who's here

Not in a group

Who's following along

Groups

Ready to draw!

Leaderboard

Groups

The teams

Timer

On the board, show:

Your own words

Word sets

Add Words and Pictures

Time's up

Words already played

Who has joined

Your Card Sets