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 is a printable version of the old favorite Scrabble word game, for those of us who might have no access to a Scrabble game otherwise. This game is a fun way to practice spelling, math, vocabu ...
A board game for young learners. It's a good way to test your students' knowledge in alphabet, numbers, vocabulary. You can divide a classroom into two or three teams and play this board game. You ...
A board game targeted for elementary level adult learners. Students need to formulate a suitable question (using what, where, when, who, how long and how much) for the answer written on each box ...
Students, divided into two teams, are supposed to choose a square, mark it with a cross or a nought, depending on their team, and make a sentence using the past modals and the verb given in order ...
I use this game fairly often, students like it, even adults. You can practise any grammar structure with it, this one is for reported/embedded questions. They call out coordinates by making correc ...
Version with sentences. Very popular game created to practice formation of Past Simple sentences. The worksheet contains regular and irregular verbs. Rules: each player throws the dice and moves ...
Very popular game created to practice formation of Past Simple sentences. The worksheet contains regular and irregular verbs. Rules: Each player throws the dice and moves than has to create a cor ...
Snakes and ladders Procedure: Divide the class into groups of four students. Give each group one game board, one die, and four tokens. Position all the students' tokens on the square marked " ...
This is a lovely and colourful boardgame for revising St. Valentine's day related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters when they land on a square they are asked to mak ...
You can play a board game using dice and asking and answering the questions. Or you can cut this worksheet into squares, hide them in a cap and let your students choose a random question from ther ...
This speaking board game is very simple. Students have to throw the dice and move from square to square until they reach the "finish" square. They will be able to speak a lot, and their partners ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising the most common action verbs. Students are asked to complete the crossword with the verbs given and then match them with the pictures. The ans ...
A blank snakes and ladders game-board. You can print it out and use it for any grammar game/vocabulary game you want. or laminate it - the kids could write on it with non-permanent markers :) if ...
This is a boardgame for teaching or revising household chores related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice when they land on a square they must make a sentence using the picture cl ...
In teams, students will play a board game. To win, they need to answer 10 questions correctly. They have some fake money. For every correct answer, they take one piece of money. When they see a pi ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching vegetables related vocabulary. Students are asked to complete the crossword and then match the words with the pictures. The activity is available in both ...
This is a picture crossword for elementary students on fruit related vocabulary. Students are asked to complete the crossword and then match the words with the pictures. The activity is available ...
Hello!!!! Another Snakes and Ladders but this time to practice Past Continuous. Students have to finish the sentences using their creativity. Sometimes the beginnings of the sentences are given an ...
This is the first time I visit the site and the first time I upload a worksheet! I hope you enjoy it! This is the traditional Snakes and Ladders .....all the sentences are incorrect so the childre ...
This is a boardgame for teaching or revising action verbs. It is played in teams with dice and counter, when students land on a square they must make a sentence using the picture clue and the ver ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching New Year related vocabulary. Students are asked to complete the crossword puzzle and them match the words with the pictures. The activity is flexible enou ...
This ws is suitable for A1 ss. it has vocabulary with pictures and in the second page it has a crossword. Can be used to introduce or practice days of the week and months of the year plus the use ...
This is an amazing picture crossword for revising Christmas related vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the crossword puzzle. The worksheet is available in both co ...
A fun picture board game with lifelines to teach body parts to students from 5 upwards. There are trickier pictures like "hip", "neck" and "chest", but they can be simplified to "body" or "mouth" ...
This is a boardgame for teaching Christmas related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters, when they land on a square they must make a sentence using the picture clue pr ...
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