Combine English language learning with fun games and activities to make your classes more enjoyable for students. Consider using one of the 412 crosswords or board games from this section in your classes to help students learn and practice a variety of topics. For a pre-intermediate activity on the past simple, look at this crossword page. It is a fun boardgame that can help students practice saying past simple verb forms and asking past simple questions. You can alter the rules to make it longer or shorter and even change the words to encourage students to practice particular vocabulary. The most popular worksheets are Christmas themed so feel free to check those out too. These activities have been created by other busy teachers just like you and are all free and easy to print out for use in your classes.
Making English language learning fun for students will help keep them engaged in their lessons. Younger students especially enjoy learning games while older students are more likely to want a more serious learning environment, discount the usefulness of these types of activities, and see them as a waste of time. The number of crosswords and boardgames you include in your course will largely depend on how your students react to them but they have become very common and are an effective ESL teaching tool.
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This game will be useful if you find it difficult to motivate your students to speak. You will need a dice, or one of you can count in silence until someone says 'stop' to get a number. Use this g ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising family related vocabulary at elementary level. There's a study sheet which can also be used as a classroom poster followed by a picture crosswo ...
By presenting this boardgame into your classes young students will have fun while learning plural nouns. It's played with dice and counters, when students land on a square they are asked to chang ...
This board game is great for creating culinary conversation. The download includes the board and 20 vocabulary cards (3 sheets in total). It's okay for a strong elementary class upwards. It's impo ...
This worksheet is for intermediate or upper-intermediate where the students can know the vocabulary of the different types of doctors. The students will learn different vocabulary by means of read ...
This is a boargame for teaching means of transport related vocabulary. It's played with dice and counter when students land on a square they are asked to make a correct sentence by using the pict ...
This is a fun worksheet for either the classroom or as homework. Students will have the chance to solve their, probably, first crossword! It is an activity that encourages thinking and revises bas ...
A 2-page board game for pre-intermediate students (any age, but preferably high school students or adults) to practise mainly situations. There are also some questions, like 'list five irregular v ...
This is a PDF version of the interactive boardgame on Halloween related vocabulary. It´s played with dice with counters when students land on a square they are asked to name the item where ...
This very famous quiz show game can be edited and used for any level according to their needs. It's based on a quiz show program. You can change the questions and make your classes more fun and c ...
Shopping boardgame for two or more players to practise vocabulary for shopping, shops and money, food, clothes, pets etc. Also some simple grammar including the verb 'to be' and plurals, and some ...
A simple worksheet with clear rules (can be alternated, of course) will help your students practice the most common irregular verbs in a funny way. Students have to say or find all the forms, tran ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising Halloween related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the ...
Happy families This is a card game for 3 or more players. Shuffle and deal the cards as equally as possible. The player on the dealer´s left starts asking for a certain card. The player must ...
I created this crossword puzzle for my Grade 1 son and elected to make it available anyway because it is so sweet. It is a very simple Halloween themed puzzle, with a focus on elementary English ...
This fun, colourful crossword is for young beginners has picture clues for the words ball, bike, car, computer, doll, plane, puppet, robot, teddy and train (the vocab used in Incredible English Le ...
It's a word-finder for beginners. It contains basic vocabulary of family, toys, and rooms at house. The words to be found are placed beneath the task, so we can cut the list out and hand it after ...
This is a colourful picture crossword for teaching Halloween related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword and then match the words with the pict ...
This is a Board game with the words related to Manners.
What you need: A rolling dice Tokens of different colours
Rules For The Game Two children can play at a time. Children need to roll th ...
By introducing this game into your classes, students will have fun while learning food and drinks realted vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters, when they land on a squa ...
This is a pretty simple crossword puzzle for teaching or revising parts of the body related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the pic ...
A picture board game for 2 or more players. First introduce and practice the used vocabulary with the children and let them colour the pictures. Then the players take turns to throw the dice and m ...
Here's a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising wild animals related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to find the words given in the puzzle and then match t ...
This worksheet consists of various pictures of things related to space. Students have to match the picture to the word and then speak a little about the subject. There is another worksheet which i ...
This is a board game with the words related to Fairy Tales. What you need: A rolling dice Tokens (counters) of different colours Rules For The Game Two children can play at a time. Children need t ...
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