John's English Playground! app for iPhone and iPad

Classroom tested English learning games to instruct and entertain your child.
Choose the words you’re going to learn from the selector, with over 1300 vocabulary words available you’re not likely to run out soon!
You can link up with our companion teacher program for PC to make your own custom vocabulary lists (available at superiorteacher.com/game )
Enjoy over 20 English learning games and new games added all the time!
Designed and built by an expert in young learner second language acquisition and over a decade of classroom experience!

PAUSE’N PAINT
- Pause most any game and paint right on the screen!
- enhance the comprehensible input by turning games into stories with your child.

MULTIPLE CHOICE:
- Choose the correct answer from pictures or text!
- learn new words and test the words your child knows
- switch to text only!

BOUNCING TOUCH
- Quick like a bunny touch the picture. Don’t let it get away!
- Practice your child’s gross motor skills
- Children absorb the vocabulary like a sponge.

SOUND BOARD
- Touch the picture and hear the word.
- Simple fun way to practice English vocabulary
- Older learners can practice reading by switching to a display of the words instead of pictures

FLIPPER
- Flip through the selected vocabulary at random
- Learn new words and practice old ones
- Great for making random stories!
- Great for playing flash card games.

CAN YOU REMEMBER GAME
- Test momentary recall
- Reinforce vocabulary learning
- Fun and competitive!

MONKEY CHASE
- Monkeys are after your chocolate!
- Outsmart them and collect as many words as you can!
- Fast paced action that kids love!

Slow reveal
- boxes cover the picture and your child must guess what it is.
- challenging recall game
- compete to be the fastest

Battle your ships
- find the coordinates of the ships to sink them.
- Game is open ended to allow maximum flexibility.
- Work together to sink the ships, or in teams to score more hits.
- Hit the number in the left corner to switch between playing boards.

Board game
- Get your guy to the chocolate before the other teams!
- Use the up and down arrows on the right side of the screen select the number of players from 1-3.
- Answer the questions to advance but don’t mess up or you’ll be sent back!

What Grandma says
- Grandma makes a statement, sometimes what she says makes sense, other times it doesn’t.

Where is the?
- Finding the hidden vocabulary words by simply dragging away the pictures covering them.

Matching game
- Touch and drag the vocabulary word from the left side to match with the one on the right side.
- Picture: Touch the picture and it will play the corresponding sound.
- Word: The word is displayed instead of a picture and sound plays when it is touched.
- Audio: Audio only, a good option for testing the listening ability.
- Shadow: Displays a shadowy representation of the picture.
- No-sound: displays only the word and does not play a sound when touched. A good way to up the challenge level for early readers.
- Freely combine options to customize the experience for your childs ability and aptitudes and to maximize fun.

Endless runner
- An exciting game of running action!
- Grab the vocabulary words while avoiding the Xs and maximize your score.

Physics game
- Press the go button to drop a random vocabulary word block from the sky!
- Use your finger to throw the blocks around. build tall buildings and knock them down! Pressing the up or down arrows gives your blocks extra bounciness.
- Blocks say their own names when you touch them.
- Experiment with touching in different places to see the effect.

Stealth monkey game
- Avoid the monkeys and collect the vocabulary words.
- Be careful of the super fast monkeys when your score is high!

Picture Story
- Your teacher can create a story for children to read along with and enjoy! (Using the companion PC program to upload)
- Use text and pictures to help students read along with the story.
- Download the story and take it home.