In the Alphabet Race ESL game, students race to write a word beginning with each letter of the alphabet.
The fast-paced Anagrams ESL game is a fun way to familiarise your students with vocabulary.
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In the Alphabet Race ESL game, students race to write a word beginning with each letter of the alphabet.
The fast-paced Anagrams ESL game is a fun way to familiarise your students with vocabulary.
In the Articulate ESL game, students describe words/phrases to their team against the clock.
The Bananas ESL game is a short, light-hearted exercise designed to get students talking at the start of class.
The Beer Pong ESL game is an adapted version of the party game in which the ‘beer’ is an English language question or challenge.
Use the Bingo ESL game to practise any kind of vocabulary pairs, including ordinal numbers, nationalities, phonics, and antonyms.
The Blankety Blank ESL game is a version of of the UK TV game show (Match Game in the US), in which students fill in missing words with the aim of matching their classmates.
The Board Race ESL game is a flexible, active way to start the class and/or practise vocabulary.
In the Board Slap ESL game, students slap the correct vocabulary item on the board when it is called out.
The Can’t Stop ESL game is a variation on the board game of the same name, in which students have to answer consecutive questions correctly to win.
In the Catch And Conjugate ESL game, students throw a ball around, conjugating irregular verbs as they go.
In the Change Chairs ESL game (also known as Fruit Bowl), students have to change chairs if the sentence spoken by another student is true for them.
A version of the classic party game, the Charades ESL game is a fun way to practise many different types of vocabulary or grammar.
The Compound Pictionary ESL game is a variation on normal Pictionary in which each team draws part of a compound noun.
In the Concentration ESL Game (also known as Match Up or Memory), students have to remember the positions of matching vocabulary words/images.
In the Connect Four ESL game students have to get ‘four in a row’ by identifying correct word(s), for example irregular verb forms.
The Dice Of Fortune ESL game is a version of Wheel Of Fortune that uses dice instead of a wheel.
The Family Feud ESL game is a version of the popular TV show of the same name (Family Fortunes in the UK), adapted for your English class.
In the Five In Five ESL game, students try to guess a five-letter word using other five-letter words.
As seen on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, in the Five-Second Summaries ESL game students only have five seconds to describe movies, famous people or other vocabulary items to their teammates.