Teacher guide · Jungle Jump

Brain break game: how to run it in class

A brain break that runs itself: an action, a countdown, and a calm ending.

At a glance

Three ways to play it differently once the class knows the rules.

Calm down
After break time, pick the Calm down deck: two minutes down to quiet, ending on breathing.
Act the word
Choose the act-the-word deck, and the moves become the words the class is learning.
Say it as you do it
Everybody says the action while doing it — I'm jumping, I'm spinning — so the break is speaking practice too.

Word lists that suit it, with pictures and translations.

Interactive Game

Tip the leather cup and one to four ivory dice tumble out onto the velvet. The total is stamped into the felt in wax.

Interactive Game

A painted carnival wheel with your class on its slices. Spin it, hear the ratchet slow, and a ticket prints with the lucky name.

Interactive Game

A secret word arrives on a painter's palette and you draw it on a real easel canvas — brush sounds, paint-blob colours and a skylight for a timer.

Interactive Game

A torchlit great hall where every team is a banner — each point hoists it higher, a crest stamps the cloth, and the crown drifts to the leader.

Interactive Game · 3–10 min
Dawn Sky Festival
Every letter hangs beneath its own hot-air balloon at sunrise. Guess the word before six balloons drift away, and the whole fleet lifts it into the sky.
Interactive Game · 5–15 min
Two Doors
One question, two great doors, one answer on each. The class votes, and the right door swings open into the light.
Worksheet
Can and can't — worksheet
Fill the gap, put the words in order, circle the right one — answers at the bottom.
Lesson Plan · 45 min
Hello Unit: Extra ESL Activities for Kids
Usually the first unit of the year: children learn to greet, give their name and ask a friend's. This pack turns it into a full lesson with plenty of talking.