In the Only Talk On The Clap ESL game, students take turns saying items from a vocabulary category, on the clap sound of a rhythm.
The Password ESL game is a vocabulary guessing game in which students can only give single word clues.
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In the Only Talk On The Clap ESL game, students take turns saying items from a vocabulary category, on the clap sound of a rhythm.
The Password ESL game is a vocabulary guessing game in which students can only give single word clues.
In the Pictionary ESL game, students guess words, phrases, or sentences from their teammate’s drawings.
Pictionary + Telephone = The Pictionary Telephone ESL Game! An extra fun way to test vocabulary knowledge involving speaking and drawing.
In the fast-paced Pop Topics ESL conversation setup, students only discuss topics for a short time before switching to another.
In the Random Story activity, students write a story involving ten random items they chose beforehand.
The Reverse Charades ESL game is a variation on Charades designed to get the whole class moving.
The Say Act Draw ESL game is a combination of Articulate, Charades, and Pictionary.
In the Say That Colour ESL activity, students have to ignore the colour that is written, and instead say the colour it is written in.
The Scattergories ESL game is a version of the category-based party game designed to test your students’ vocabulary knowledge.
In the Sentence Builder ESL activity, students build sentences from a large set of random words.
In the Speed Dating ESL activity, students meet lots of different people for a short time.
The Stop ESL Game is a category-based vocabulary game, very similar to Scattergories and perfect for a quick warmer.
In the Story Chain ESL activity, students write the next part of every story that is passed to them.
In the Story Circle ESL activity, students take turns adding new elements to a spoken story.
In the Stranded On A Desert Island ESL activity, students decide what they would like to have with them in a castaway situation and justify their choices.
The Taboo ESL game is a version of the popular guessing word game in which students have to describe words/phrases to their teammate(s), without using certain other words.
In the Target Practice ESL game, students complete different English language challenges depending on which area of the target they hit.
In the Telephone Pictionary ESL activity, students pass information in secret (like in Telephone), but alternate between drawings and written descriptions.
In the Text Scramble ESL activity, students have to organise the sentences of a text into the correct order.