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 colorful boardgame which is aimed to review some important grammar topics: verb tenses, reported speech, degrees of comparison, plural nouns, some / any, adverbs, modal verbs, etc. Suit ...
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This a colourful boardgame, suitable for elementary students, for teaching cardinal numbers from 1 to 100. It is played in groups or pairs with dice and counters. When students land on a square t ...
This is a picture crossword suitable for elementary students, for teaching or revising Autumn related vocabulary. Students are asked to complete the crossword with the words given, match them wit ...
This is a board made to play scrabble. Enjoy. You can use it in all levels to review vocabulary or just have fun. This link gives you different fonts for the tiles. http://www.fontspace.com/catego ...
This is colourful picture crossword, suitable for elementary students, on animal vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the pictures, complete the crossword puzzle with the names of 33 differ ...
This boardgame is designed for elementary students who are studying the verb to be. Students work in groups or pairs with dice and counters, when they land on a square they are asked to make nega ...
This is a boardgame, suitable for elementary students, on frequency adverbs. It' s played in groups or pairs with dice and counters, when students land on a square they are asked to make a senten ...
This picture crossword will help low-level students to identify the different places in town: post office, church, bus stop, park, hospital, factory, car park, airport, restaurant, cinema, shop, ...
Games are so popular with language learners so here's a board game designed for elementary students who are studying daily routines. Students work in pairs with dice and counters. When they land ...
The game "Who wants to be a millionaire" can be used to revise various topics, e.g. holidays, sport, education, etc. One or two students in turns are supposed to answer 15 questions on a particula ...
Leisure activities and Hobbies board game to go with the worksheet on the topic which can be found here. Students advance on the board with dice. They are asked to make a sentence using the pictu ...
This picture crossword focuses on past simple tense, irregular verbs, and it´s pretty easy to do. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the crossword with the simple past ...
This is a boardgame to review or learn ordinal numbers. Students advance on the board with dice. When they land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the picture clue. This game is ...
A crossword puzzle on homographs (homonyms) I did on my own. In the first task, the students need to find the words as described below. In the second task, they need to find the other definitions ...
This is a boardgame to improve sports related vocabulary and the present simple tense, affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. Students use the die and move forward, when they land on a sq ...
This is a quick time-filler to review the Imperative. Students advance on the board, when they land on a square they must answer the question" What did she say?" using the imperative. Recommended ...
Board game with sentences on each square that the students have to re-say in the third conditional form. Good for revision or to reinforce the form after introduction to the grammar. Better with s ...
With this game students will practise Past simple tense while playing! Every square provides a question. Every time a correct answer is given, the game can be used as a communicative activity wh ...
This board game focuses on wh-questions and short answers, which are a difficult aspect of English language. Students´ task is to, turn the statements into questions, asking about the under ...
This is a simple game for young learners to practice the names of some animals. Students name the animal according to the picture in the square that they land on. Recommended for elementary stud ...
Board game for practicing make or do by saying the sentence in each square and replacing the / (slash) with the correct word. Useful speaking practice and helps to reinforce the differences betwee ...
This is a picture crossword to revise food vocabulary. Students are asked to complete the crossword puzzle using the picture clues. Recommended for elementary students. Vocabulary included: butt ...
This is a boardgame to consolidate the differences between past simple and past continuous. It includes verb cards and instructions. The students are asked to complete sentences with the correct ...
A board game to consolidate quantifiers: some, any, no, much, many and a lot of. Students use the dice to advance on the board completing the sentences provided on the square where they land. Thi ...
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