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 quick time-filler to review the Simple Past tense, Regular and Irregular Verbs. Every square provides a picture clue and a verb. Every time a correct answer is given it can be used as a ...
Here's a picture crossword that checks the main vocabulary related to clothes and accessories . Students look at the pictures and complete the crossword with the names of the items.
This is a simple crossword (based on pictures) that could be used to practice the vocabulary related to sports, games and active lifestyle. Hope it's useful, have a nice day!
Here's a gameboard that I've made with mixed questions. (Unscramble the sentence, name a few nouns and make a sentence, likes/dislikes, grammar questions etc). My students love it and I hope yours ...
In this booklet designed for my primary school pupils, who study English for five years, there are some of the most beautiful Christmas songs (Oh Christmas Tree, Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red-nose ...
A simple WS - crossword to practise the names of the countries. My young students usually have some difficulties while guessing the names of the countries only by looking at the pictures of their ...
Two exercises reinforcing "time" vocabulary, specifically how much time is in a minute, day, week, month, year, century..
This telling time activity includes process of elimination fill-ins and c ...
Roller coaster ride, claim to fame, open doors, dream came true, lucky break, take a chance There are 6 nouns and verbs that go together, print as many as you need, arrange your sts in pair give o ...
This is a full lesson plan based on the grared reader about a boy who didn't know fear. The lesson plan that was kindly provided by Evan-Moor Corp contains an activity (crossword) on action verbs, ...
Conversation boardgame You need a die to play. Students have to talk for 30 seconds about the topic their counter stepped on and try to reach the finish before the others. Very fun activity and i ...
This is a lesson-long boardgame that will teach your learners a lot of energy-related vocabulary, and they will have fun while learning it in a fun, competitive way.
Enjoy and please let us know ...
Very usefull crossword that helps to remember or check school vocabulary. You can use it on the lesson to check your students or like a homework to revise material. Students remember how to read a ...
Play a quick game by calling out the things you see and marking them on your board. First to get a line horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and yell 'YUMMY!' wins. For a longer game, each play ...
If you want to describe a friend you will need to know a lot of things about him/her. However learning vocabulary is very boring, so here you are a crossword, it is funnier. The keys are: generou ...
A Crossword puzzle which uses 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet as the initial letters of the answers. This crossword is designed to test the vocabulary of level B2 (Intermediate) students. It ...
Actually this is a lesson plan to teach written english numbers to adult students. This is for begginers. Students will be very motivated to learn the numbers because the Lesson involves game acti ...
Independence Day is the greatest patriotic holiday in the United States. It's celebrated on the Fourth of July, the day on which the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independe ...
Talking about Shopping: 5-page Worksheet
This worksheet contains 5 pages of shopping-related vocabulary activities: fill in the blanks, change the sentence, compare the products, find and correct ...
The worksheet can be used for most levels. It is useful for checking the students' level, can be used to practice Present Continuous, Present Simple (habits and routines) and everything your ...
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