Famous Landmarks. Why Learn English? There is a list of topics where you have to make questions for. Roses are Red. Jeopardy is the game show where you come up with answers to challenging questions. But this is the opposite. Reverse Quiz Show. Teacher Quiz. Types of Sushi. Shout It. The team that can think of the most rhyming words wins. Double-check they are actual rhymes though. Rhyme Time. Pizza Recipe.
Picture Rhymes. Phone Emoticons. Students become a translator for a common text message conversation between them and their parents. Text Messages. Minimal Pairs Pictures. Metropolis Markdown. This is a popular game in Japanese culture where you have to think of a word that starts with the ending letter of a word. English Shiritori. Know Your Flags. Country Outlines. Compound Words. This is a surprisingly difficult activity where students have to untangle letters to make a word.
Choose one person to sit in front of their team and stand behind the students and hold a piece of paper with a word on it. The team has three minutes to get the one in front to say the word on paper.
A favourite game among teachers, Hangman can be used at the start of the class to warm up the students and get them active. This is especially good for young students. First, think of a word and write the number of letters on the board using dashes to show many letters there are.
Then, ask students to suggest a letter. If it appears in the word, write it in all of the correct spaces. If the letter does not appear in the word, write it off to the side and begin drawing the image of a hanging man. You have to continue this until the students guess the word correctly, your students will win.
If you complete the diagram, you win. Gather 20 objects that can be found in the classroom and lay them all out on the desk. Show them all to the students and then cover everything with a blanket or a sheet after one minute. Ask the students to write down as many items they remember on a piece of paper. Write a list of the items on the chalkboard and allow students to self-correct.
This game is similar to Taboo Words. You can write the name on the board and one student will guess the word. The rest of the class must guess the word by describing it. First, you have to write a word vertically on the board.
Here are some suggestions for words, but you can use anything you like for the appropriate level of your students, and what is relevant to their lives or studies:. This is something that can be used in several different ways be creative! Write a list of situations on pieces of paper and mix them up in a bag or pot. Students go to the front in pairs or small groups, one at a time, and pick a scenario to act out.
The first person to say the correct answer gains points for their team. Another way to play this, which works really well for students on an individual basis, is to use a situation based on what you have previously taught them and they have to overcome any problems that you present to them. For example, if you are teaching English related to business, you could act as an important client who is disappointed about a business deal.
The student has to remain professional and find a solution. At the same time, you should continue to present further problems for as long as you can. When you feel they have done well to resolve the issues, then you can reward points. It makes it more fun when you switch roles, so the student gets to act as the client and present YOU with the problems, and you, as the business professional, try to find a solution.
This could work with any topic or subject if you put your mind to it, such as English for law, economics, business, engineering, IT, finance or even general English.
This is a fun and quick game you can play to wake everyone up if you feel like they might be losing concentration a bit! Use this as a swift break in between study periods. They have to add an item to the list of things you packed for holiday. The students that follow have to say every item already on the list and add a new one too!
Keep going until everyone in the class has had a go or a few turns each if you only have a small group and you feel they are more alert again! If you are teaching on an individual basis, you could just play head-to-head with the student yourself! Personally, I love the chance to get involved and play the games myself too!
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I have collected these activities over my past years of teaching. I collected them from various sources and they are not my own made up ideas, I simply tailored them to suit my students and my style of teaching. If you have more ideas for games that we could add to this list, we would be delighted to hear from you in the comments box below!
Hi Anastasia, I really appreciate your efforts to come up with great lessons everyday. I set up the cookies to receive your daily lesson. Hi Fabrices! Thank you for you kind words. Are these answers cover your question? Sign in. Write a list composed of 15 words with mixed parts of speech i. Then, ask the student to choose any word from the list and make a correct and logical sentence with it. You can encourage students to be creative and have fun with their sentences to keep the game interesting.
Provide a point if the sentence contains the word and is grammatically correct. Afterward, choose two new words from the list and let him or her make a new sentence using them. Give the student two points for a grammatically correct sentence containing these two new words, then circle or cross them out from the word list.
Then, the student must choose three new words from the list and create another sentence. Follow the criteria for the previous rounds. Alternatively, you can also show a picture and ask the learner to describe something in it using only three words.
Then, raise the word count. Then, ask the student to choose a symbol X or O and put their mark on any verb on the grid. Then, the student must make a correct sentence using the word he or she chooses. The next player has to choose a box to mark and similarly make a sentence. You can personalize this game in many different ways! You can use question words, for instance, or challenge your students to various speaking tasks. This ESL game for teaching online, which is inspired by the popular TV game show of the same name, is effective for reading comprehension, vocabulary, and even math skills.
Incorporate pop culture into your ESL classroom with these 8 activities. Then, ask the student to choose a category and a number of points. He or she earns the points if the answer is correct.
Instead of questions, you can use photos to reinforce vocabulary, especially for beginner students. Back in her hometown in the Philippines, Krzl worked as a writer at a TV station before moving to Chile seven years ago.
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