Answer a question, add a magic ingredient, and see what Pip turns into!
Pip has opened a potion shop, and he needs your class to help him brew. Every right answer earns a magic ingredient, and students ask for it in English: "Add a bat wing, please!" After 6 ingredients, Pip drinks the potion and, poof, turns into a bat, a pumpkin, a little dragon, a ghost, a frog, or a black cat.
Pick a level from A1 to B2, a skill, and a theme, and the questions are ready to go. Or type in your own.
Answer, ask, brew, drink. Here is how one potion comes together.
Choose a level, what to practice, and a theme. Then choose who is playing: the whole class, 1 player, or 2 teams.
Tap the right answer on the scroll. For speaking questions, students answer out loud and the teacher presses Good answer or Not yet.
Three big ingredient cards pop up. Students choose one and ask for it."Add a bat wing, please!"
Pip pulls the ingredient out of his hat and tosses it into the cauldron. Splash! The potion changes color, and students say the new color.
After 6 ingredients, Pip drinks the potion and, poof, turns into something new. Then students tell the story with first, then, next, and finally.
Playing in 2 teams? Each team has its own cauldron, and the teams take turns. With the steal rule on, a missed question goes to the other team for one try. The first team to add 6 ingredients finishes first, and then both teams see what their Pip turns into.
Six skills, four levels, and seven themes: over 3,800 ready-made ESL questions. Choose Mix of all 4 for a review of vocabulary, grammar, expressions, and spelling together. B1 and B2 sets have four answer choices, just like PET.
A small animal that flies at night and sleeps upside down.
There ___ three pumpkins on the table.
Children say "Trick or treat!" when...
A woman in stories who rides a broom and makes magic.
The scariest animal is ___ because ___.
Students answer out loud
What do people do on Halloween in your country?
Students answer out loud
No prep, nothing to print, and no student accounts. Open it and play.
Share your screen on KoalaGo, Zoom, Tencent Meeting, or ClassIn. Press A to D to answer and 1, 2, or 3 to pick an ingredient.
Students come up to tap the answer and choose the ingredient. Big cards, easy to read from the back.
Choose 1 player and type the student's name. Every potion is different, so they will want to play again.
Save the potion recipe picture with the whole story. For homework, students write their own potion story with first, then, next, and finally.
It's a Halloween ESL review game for kids. Pip is brewing a potion, and every right answer earns a magic ingredient. After 6 ingredients, Pip drinks the potion and turns into something new. You can practice vocabulary, grammar, expressions, spelling, and speaking from A1 to B2.
Not at all. Pip's potion shop is cozy and silly: the cauldron burps, Pip coughs at the smoke, and he turns into cute creatures. There are no jump scares, so it works even for 5 and 6 year olds.
A bat, a pumpkin, a little dragon, a ghost, a frog, or a black cat. The animal ingredients students add most decide what he becomes. Magic ingredients like star candy and rainbow feathers add describing words, so students might get "a googly-eyed, sparkly frog."
Every time students earn an ingredient, they ask for it: "Add some moon dust, please!" That's real practice with a, an, and some. After each splash they say the new potion color, and at the end they tell the whole story with first, then, next, and finally.
Pip drinks the potion, there's a puff of smoke, and the class sees what he turned into. Press Tell the story to go through the 6 ingredients one by one, with a sentence for each step. Then save the potion recipe picture with the ingredients, the story, and the date.
It covers four levels, A1 to B2. A1 and A2 sets suit young beginners, A2 matches KET, and B1 and B2 suit older students preparing for PET and beyond.
No. Halloween is just one theme. The same game has ready-made sets on family, hobbies, food, school, travel, and animals, so you can play it all year.
Yes. Open the My own words tab and type one question per line. For multiple choice, write: question | correct answer | wrong answer | wrong answer. For speaking, just type the prompt, and add | an example answer if you like.
About 6 minutes with 8 multiple-choice questions, and about 20 minutes with 20 speaking questions. The setup screen shows a time estimate for the number of questions you pick.
Choose 1 player and type the student's name. Each potion needs 6 right answers, so with 8 questions the student can miss 2. If the questions run out first, Pip adds the last ingredients himself, so every game ends with a surprise.
Each team has its own cauldron and the teams take turns. With the steal rule on, a missed question goes to the other team for one try. The first team to add 6 ingredients finishes first, and then both teams find out what their Pip becomes.
Yes. After an ingredient goes in, press Change it, and students can choose again from the same three cards.
Yes. Set the answer timer to 30 or 60 seconds on the setup screen. When time runs out, it counts as a miss, so in team games the other team can steal.
Students don't need accounts. Only the teacher opens the game. Music and sound effects each have their own on/off button, and the game remembers your music setting.
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Witch's Potion Shop is a no-prep Halloween game for ESL kids. Every right answer earns a magic ingredient, like a bat wing, ghost slime, or a frog in a teacup, and students ask for it in English before Pip tosses it into the cauldron. After 6 ingredients, Pip drinks the potion and turns into a bat, a pumpkin, a little dragon, a ghost, a frog, or a black cat, so every game ends with a surprise.
Students practice English vocabulary, grammar, expressions, and spelling, or speak with sentence frames and conversation questions, at four levels from A1 to B2. Every round adds speaking too: polite requests with a, an, and some, color words, and a story at the end with first, then, next, and finally. The A2 and B1 sets work well as fun KET and PET review.
It runs in your browser, so you can share your screen in an online ESL class, put it on a classroom smartboard, or play one-on-one. And it isn't just for October: the same game has ready-made sets on family, hobbies, food, school, travel, and animals.
