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 Classroom Guess Who ESL game is a version of Guess Who played with members of the class.
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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 Classroom Guess Who ESL game is a version of Guess Who played with members of the class.
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.
Another game based around the Hot Seat setup, in the Consequences ESL game students try and guess results from conditions or vice versa.
In the Countdown ESL game, students try to make the longest word they can from nine random letters.
The Dice Of Fortune ESL game is a version of Wheel Of Fortune that uses dice instead of a wheel.
The Draw The Time ESL game is a version of Pictionary in which students have to draw the time instead of a vocabulary word.
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 Find Something ESL game, students have to find something in the room that matches a given criteria.
The Fishbowl ESL game is a guessing game in which students use descriptions, then actions, and finally single words as clues.
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.
The Go Fish ESL game is a version of the classic card game, in which students have to get four numbers/vocabulary items of the same type.
In the Guess What ESL game students try and guess what another student has in their hand.
In the Guess Who ESL game, students deduce which person their partner is thinking of from yes/no questions about physical characteristics.
The Hangman ESL game is always an easy option for a warmer, but it’s also a great way to familiarise students with new vocabulary or idioms.
Named after the popular app, in the Heads Up ESL game students have to guess words/phrases from the descriptions of their team (Reverse Articulate).
The Hot And Cold ESL game is a version of the well-known children’s game, in which the proximity of a hidden object is indicated using temperature clues.