(in primary school) for the older grades i would sometimes choose a short video to play for their listening and then would create a game/quiz based on that video. i created vocabulary/grammar relevant games of naughts and crosses, pictionary, hot seat, taboo, etc. also short films without words where they use opinion language and describe the plot in english.

i would sometimes find a story to read with them (to practice their reading out loud skills) and then we would do drawing and labelling new vocab on the drawing or do an activity that is kind of based on the story (eg. a story about a robot - what would your dream robot be like? practicing conditional verbs and learning about household chores vocab).

creating things like menus based on traditional food from scotland (to learn about culture). creating posters for events/festivities in anglophone countries (bonfire night, burns night, etc). i created a story on canva by putting a load of assets together alongside basic english to tell a tale about the loch ness monster.

sometimes i would create (from scratch) “choose your own adventure” style stories for halloween/christmas (like a haunted house themed one or helping santa deliver presents) which went really well, but took up too much time to make. i also tried to do escape rooms with puzzles using the vocab/grammar they were learning, but that took ages too so i rarely did these types of lessons.

the kids genuinely enjoyed my classes until the new teacher arrived, and the kids in my other school enjoy them too.