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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Here's a boardgame for revising buildings and places in town related vocabulary. It's played with dice and counter when students land on a square they are asked to make a correct sentence by usin ...
Use this Word Search to introduce or reinforce "Emotions" vocabulary. Use it as a fun "warmer" or as a fun homework assignment. Can your learners find all 18 words in only 12 minutes? Words inc ...
This is an interactive boardgame for teaching or revising cardinal numbers from 1 to 12 at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel and name the item where they land or make a corre ...
Here's the second interactive boardgame. This one is aimed for teaching or revising fruit related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces ...
These are sets of bingo cards that I created for my sixth graders students. The cards were created with some of the vocabulary that we used during the school year: solar system, meteorite, creatur ...
Quick and easy board game ("Get-to-Know-You" activity) for the first week of class. Students roll a die twice to find their question to talk about for one or two minutes. (Questions such as: "Ta ...
A wordsearch for beginners or elementary students to learn/review summer holiday vocabulary. Can be used as a warmer to introduce the topic of summer holiday or back to school warmer to start the ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising food related vocabulary . Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword using the across and down clues and then ...
This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced s ...
Just a simple game of Who's Who?/Guess Who?, made with adult students in mind. Have students play in pairs with different game sheets. Each student picks a person on their sheet and then they take ...
It's a board game based on the game "perfil". This board game contains two categories: person and country. The teacher prints the board and the cards. At the classroom, the teacher divides the stu ...
This is a simple word search where students can review vocabulary related to the weather, calendar, days of the week, and seasons. After they find the word they have to write it under the correct ...
This is a wordsearch using some olympic sports vocabulary. It can be used for a beginners / pre-intermediate level, or for children. It contains 12 words such as weight lifting, fencing, relay rac ...
Using essential words for the IELTS - social networking - intermediate word-search puzzle for business and/or vocabulary building class. You can use the worksheet as is for searching and you can a ...
Board game to practice the Present Perfect. Students are supposed to go through the sentences and complete the vebs in each one using the Past Participle. Material: dice Interaction: groups of th ...
The aim of the game: To practice the use of the indefinite articles. Rationale: When doing written exercises it is usually easier to add an article (if students know the rule well), because stud ...
This is a simple and colourful board game for teaching or revising clothes related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters when they land on a square they are asked to mak ...
This board game includes typical job interview questions that students have to answer plus 20 vocabulary cards. I usually play this in groups of 4 or 5 at the end of a lesson on job interview skil ...
This is a wordsearch puzzle for teaching or revising camping related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to find the words in the puzzle and then match them with the pict ...
By introducing this game into your classes, students will have fun learning summer related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice, when they land on a square they are asked to make a ...
This colourful board game is designed to create conversation about holidays and includes a variety of question structures. It includes lots of key vocabulary for the topic and is a fun way to end ...
This game was designed for an elementary group of early teenagers. The idea is to review things learnt in class by providing them with an easy but entertaining game in which they will find most of ...
Especially for kids, this game makes them acquire classroom language and there are many ways in which they can play. What I did was giving them a dice and they had to perform the action as well as ...
This worksheet has a crossword about animals. Students have to complete the crossword by reading the sentences underneath the crossword. Each sentence gives information about each animal of the cr ...
This is a simple boardgame for revising the parts of the body. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to make a correct sentence by using the picture clue provided on the each sq ...
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