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In the Celebrity Chefs ESL activity, students pretend they are a famous chef on TV, and demonstrate a recipe for the class.
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.
In the City Of The Future ESL project, students create an annotated picture to illustrate what they think the city of the future might look like.
In the City Walking Tour ESL activity students plan a route around a city and write the directions needed to follow it.
In the Class Adventure ESL activity, you and your class set out on a trip together, but things don’t go according to plan.
In the Class Emoji Story ESL activity students create a spoken story, adding sentences for each emoji prompt.
The Classroom City ESL activity is a role play setup for practising shopping interactions and everyday conversations.
The Classroom Restaurant ESL activity transforms your class into a dining experience, where your students can practise food vocabulary and ordering/serving.
The Comparative Clues ESL activity is a version of Twenty Questions in which students can only use comparatives questions.
In the Complete The Map ESL activity, students have to complete the map of a town using written clues.
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.
The Conditional Story Chain ESL activity is a version of the Story Chain activity especially designed for practising the first or second conditional.
In the Conditional Story Circle ESL activity, students create a spoken story by linking conditional sentences together.
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 Conversation Bingo ESL activity, students play bingo while listening to conversations or dialogues created by their classmates.
The Crazy Classroom ESL activity is a live-action version of Memory Scene, in which students have to remember what their classmates were doing.
In the Crazy Requests ESL activity, students practise making and responding to (and reporting) strange requests with their classmates.
In the Fortunately Unfortunately ESL Activity, students create a story that alternates between positive and negative sentences.
