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 worksheet is about Present Continuous tense practice for kids who are learning with Let's Go 2 by Oxford University Press. It 's very useful for people at beginning level of English. This han ...
Here is a boardgame for teaching or revising colours related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to make a sentence using the picture clue provided on the square where t ...
Simple boardgame for revising weather vocabulary. Students name the type of weather that they land on, and go up the rainbows and down the lightning bolts. Fully adaptable. Vocabulary: hot, cold, ...
My Beginners were having problems understanding the use of: what / who / when and where + Present Continuous After some exercises and explanation, I decided to create this game to reassure they un ...
This is colourful boardgame for teaching or revising prepositions of place. Students advance on the board with dice and counters when they land on a square they are asked to make a sentences usin ...
Students roll the animal dice and add animals to their farms according to the pictures. If they get a "fox", the fox steals an animal from their farm and they have to put one back. Used this in a ...
Through this lovely game students will learn the animals related vocabulary. It is played with dice and counters when the students land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the pic ...
Through this colourful game young students will learn the cardinal numbers. It is played with dice and counters, when students land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the picture ...
Let your students have fun before going on Easter holiday. Here is an easy crossword puzzle for them. Some clues are written in speech bubbles, others are given as pictures. When they complete the ...
Words for taboo. The students have to explain the first word in each box and at the same time avoid using the other related words in the same box. The vocabulary has been chosen pretty much at ran ...
Words for taboo. The students have to explain the first word in each box and at the same time avoid using the other related words in the same box. The vocabulary has been chosen pretty much at ran ...
This is a board game for communicative practice of the first, second and third conditionals, as well as phrases expressing wishes or regret (if only, I wish). Target group: intermediate+ students. ...
This is a crossword puzzle for revising Easter related vocabulary. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the clues provided. The activity is a ...
Playing Bingo is a good way to check if students know vocabulary. There are 8 different bingo cards for revising Easter related vocabulary and calling cards on the last page. Just print, laminate ...
This is a boardgame for teaching or revising Easter related vocabulary. Students are asked to make a sentence using the picture or answer the questions provided on each square. The game is recom ...
This is a board game for revising farm animals related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to make a sentences using the picture clue provided.
This activity contains a board game for beginner students to learn and practice, in a funny way, the short form of the verb to be. It can also be used to practice personal pronouns. It can take ar ...
It is a board game where your students can practice how to use verb to be in present simple. It is fun and useful. Students can play in groups or pairs. Roll the dice, start from the start point a ...
This game involves completing simple sentences. The beginning of the sentence is there for the child and they must finish the sentence so that it makes sense. Great game for consolidating work o ...
SCRABBLE is a really good game, I hope your students enjoy it! What you need to know about this game is: 1: using the letters students make a word. 2: they have to count the total of points they g ...
This is a memory board game I made for beginners. It's a fun way to review some basic vocabulary about clothes. Print it out and make small black squares to cover each square. Try to encourage stu ...
It´s an animal crossword.Students must find out the names of wild animal in the crossword. this worksheet can be useful for elementary students when they are working the class of natural sci ...
Bingo sheets. These bingo sheets are for young learners, who just started with English and are using Cheeky Monkey pupil´s book. It can be also used as a game Pairs - if you cut it and colo ...
This is a printable version of the old favorite Monopoly game, for those of us who might have no access to a Monopoly game otherwise. 2-6 players. Monopoly is a fun game for practicing communicati ...
The aim of the worksheet is to practise expressing future and suggestions. You can practise going to, present continuous, shall and expression like let's or what about...... This worksheet was pre ...
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