I have just had a quick play with Spelling City an online spelling program.
Spelling City is an online spelling program that promises to make practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has:
– Over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games.
– A real person who says each word and sentence.
– Thousands of free spelling lists. Or you can save your own.
It is worth a play.
Try this list on Harry Potter words.
We all love Free Rice and now there is more to love about it. The game has gone multilingual, which is great for the French students and it has also added an English grammar section. But wait there’s more – it has games covering Art, Chemistry, Maths and Geography. I explain all in the video above.
So push the Free Rice button in the sidebar and give them a go!
Here is a great spelling game from the BBC – Silent Invaders. It will help you learn to spell words with silent letters, it is a fun way to improve your spelling. The game is a shoot ’em up space invader type of thing – try playing it at warp speed!
This is another good game for junior students and those of you who would like to revise some of the basics. Gut Instinct is from the BBC, it is enjoyable to play and the graphics are great fun. You can find it here.
Elemental is a game from the BBC in which you play against another character by answering English questions. It is great way to revise language work and it is suitable for students in Years 9 and 10.
If you are looking for some intellectual stimulation try Brain Food:Lateral Thinking Puzzles. These puzzles, unlike most puzzles, are inexact. In a sense, they are a hybrid between puzzles and storytelling. In each puzzle, some clues to a scenario are given, but the clues don’t tell the full story. Your job is to fill in the details and complete the story. Obviously, there is usually more than one answer to any given puzzle, but, in general, only one solution is truly satisfying.
You can try solving these puzzles on your own – that’s certainly a legitimate way to go about this – but usually you can have more fun if you involve other people. The way this works is, you look at the answer (maybe you want to try the puzzle on your own first!), then read just the clues to your friends. Your friends must determine the answer by asking questions about it, which you may answer only with yes, no, or doesn’t matter. You can adjust the difficulty of the puzzle by varying the initial clues, throwing in red herrings, and so forth.
One word of warning – for some reason, these puzzles have a tendency to be rather morbid.
Here’s an example :
A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, “Thank you,” and walks out.
The solution :
The man has hiccups; the bartender scares them away by pulling a gun.
I found an addictive new word game called Wordslide. Wordslide is a text puzzle game and it is not only challenging but completely addictive. You can play against the computer or challenge another player. You can play anonymously or you can register and have your scores recorded for you.
The same site also has a game called Geosense which a fun way to use and improve your knowledge of world geography. It is similar to Wordslide in the sense that you can play against the computer or challenge another player. Geosense can also be played anonymously or you can register and have your scores recorded for you. There are four Geosense maps (US, World, Europe, or advanced) that you can select from.
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