Using Cambridge English kahoots in online teaching and learning

Help young learners practise skills and language at home or in online lessons with Cambridge English kahoots.

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Games can do more than just entice and reward learners – if they’re well designed they can create excitement and flow. They can distract learners from stress or anxiety, and making them more open to learning. Playing games can lead to increased levels of intrinsic motivation in the learning environment.

These Cambridge English kahoots for young learners are designed to help learners to explore, practise and review language and reading skills at Pre A1, A1 and A2 levels. As your learners play you can see immediately which areas need more work. Because the games are intrinsically fun to play, you can always repeat them, either in class or as an independent learning challenge, to help learners reach mastery of the language content.  

Of course, young learners are at different stages in their overall development, in their language learning and in their exposure to digital learning ­– they may react in different ways to game-based activities. Think carefully about whether they would benefit from peer support by playing in a team, or whether they would enjoy the challenge of playing against each other as individuals.  

Here are some ideas for integrating Kahoot! games into English language learning contexts: 

Less confident learners, or those who are new to Kahoot!

Online or face-to-face lesson | Team-vs-Team

  1. Choose a Cambridge English kahoot and explore the cover picture with your learners in class.
  2. Play the kahoot in team-vs-team mode so that learners can support each other.
  3. During play, note where your class are having problems.
  4. Go back and use the cover image to help with any feedback or explanations.
  5. Follow up with questions, a role play or a communicative activity based on the cover picture.

More confident learners

Online or face-to-face lesson | Player-vs-Player

  1. Choose a Cambridge English kahoot and explore the cover picture with your learners in class.
  2. Play the kahoot in player-vs-player mode to give learners an added level of challenge.
  3. During play, note where your class are having problems.
  4. Get learners to tell you where they need more help and ask other learners to use the cover image to provide explanations for each other, helping them where necessary.
  5. Follow up with questions, a role play or a communicative activity based on the cover picture.
  6. Get learners creating kahoots for each other. 

Blended learning

Online or face-to-face lesson | Challenge  

  1. Choose a Cambridge English kahoot and explore the cover picture with your learners in class.
  2. Set the kahoot as a challenge for independent learning.
  3. Follow up next class with any common problems and a role play or a communicative activity based on the cover picture. 

Independent learning

Online | Challenge

  1. Choose appropriate Cambridge English kahoots and set a weekly challenge.
  2. Note problem areas over time and create new kahoots to provide practise where needed.
  3. Get learners creating kahoots for each other. 

For more information on playing kahoots, watch these how-to videos from Kahoot!

How to play a game of Kahoot!

How to play a kahoot as a challenge