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 boardgame is a great way to review the verb to be and wh-question words. Every square provides an answer. Students are asked to make the correct question for the answers. It can be played in ...
This is board game to practice the prepositions of time (at, in, on). Students must advance around the board giving the correct preposition for the cue in the space. First student to arrive to the ...
A crossword puzzle to reinforce body parts vocabulary. There are 15 words included: leg, arm, knee, toes, hand, teeth, eyes, foot, hair, mouth, ear, neck, nose, fingers and face. Perfect for home ...
This is a picture crossword to help students learn some common illness and symptoms. Students have to complete the crossword with the following words: headache, stomach-ache, toothache, sprain, br ...
This boardgame provides lots of speaking practice for second conditional. Students advance on the board, when they land on a square they must say what they'd do in different situations. Recommende ...
This is a board game to encourage conversation and to practise asking and answering the questions using "can" and talking about one's ability. A fun way to teach modal verbs to lower-level students!
A board game used for practicing prepositions of place (in, on, under, behind, in front of, between, next to, etc). Students advance on the board, when they land on a square they must answer the q ...
This picture crossword gives your students the opportunity to learn about different ways you can get around. Students have to complete the crossword puzzle with the 20 different means of transport ...
This a crossword puzzle to consolidate jobs and occupations vocabulary for intermediate or upper intermediate students. In the proposed task students find 15 sentences given as a clue, which t ...
A very simple and enjoyable exercise on Fruit vocabulary for elementary students.Including a picture dictionary presenting 16 new words illustrated with pictures and crossword puzzle. The pictur ...
This is a fantastic game to review yes/no questions in Simple Present and Simple Past. Students can play in pairs or groups of three or four. They must ask questions and answer them correctly to ...
This is a great game for pair work. You’ll need one sheet per student pair. Instructions: • Students choose a mark of their own. (star, smiley face, heart, diamond) • Decide who go ...
This is a simple picture crossword to consolidate the topic BODY PARTS for pre-intermediate students who have to complete the crossword puzzle according to the pictures. Words included: head, elb ...
A board game to practise Present Continuous in which students have to make affirmative, negative or interrogative sentences according to the pictures and the verbs given. Recommended for elementar ...
Suitable for adults, this warm-up worksheet is an eleven word crossword puzzle for ESL beginners. Three illustrations help explain vocabulary and the questions are designed to open conversations a ...
This is a crossword to provide practice on prepositions of movement. It also includes pictures, so the student can be guided by them. Recommended for elementary students (age 6-8).
This is a board game for practising positive, negative and question forms in the past tense. Students should say the Past Simple of the verb in the space in the affirmative, negative and interrog ...
An editable Present Perfect board game, includes easy questions to make students talk about their experience... You can change the questions according to your students’ level. Recommended f ...
Irregular Verbs Boardgame to consolidate the topic. Students advance on the board, when they land on a square they have to make a correct sentence according to the verb. Every verb provides a pic ...
This is a picture crossword with classroom action verbs in which students complete the crossword puzzle with the verbs, including all verbs needed for everyday classroom language: listen, read, ...
This is a board game to review jobs and occupations vocabulary and workplaces. Every square provides a picture clue or an answer. Students must advance on the board with dice. When they land on ...
It's a battleship game, 2 Players A and B - each student gets a sheet and fills in the squares. Students have to locate the ships by making and answering the questions.
Ex. : What's her mother's ...
Hey there! If you have been trying really hard to entertain your teen students and you have no any ideas left, here's the bet game I want to share with you. For this game, you divide your students ...
You can use this split crossword to do some revision on CLOTHES, or as a follow-up after presenting the vocabulary. There are two worksheets, one for student A and another for student B. This can ...
Board game to get students thinking & speaking about common addictions (mobile phone/ shopping/ smoking/ coffee). Useful supplement to lessons on Addiction. The student who lands on a square r ...
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