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 designed for students to practice using present continuous. All you will need is a dice and some counters. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving along the board accordi ...
I have designed this file to review the names of some farm animals (and their babies) and of course some other vocabulary items related to the farm such as barn, tractor and scarecrow. The instruc ...
This is a very fun game to review some idioms such as time flies, good money, all ears, talk of the devil, over one's dead body and etc. The instruction of the game is included and this game is tr ...
I have designed this PDF to review some animals that live in the rainforests, in polar regions and on African plains. It contains a bingo game. Cut the cards and give each team a card. Cut the li ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to Backpack 2. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click on it, if they ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to clothes vocabulary items. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click o ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to family vocabulary items. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click on ...
I have designed this pdf to review some vocab items related to african plains such as a lion, hyena, flamingo, etc. Cut the cards and place them on the board. Divide the ss into two teams. Ss take ...
To celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss we have created this fun word search for your students to enjoy. Students are asked to find each character from books written by author Dr. Seuss in the grid ...
This presentation consists of a the famous game 'Who wants to be a millionaire'. There are questions that students will have to answer in order to reach the one million prize. Students will ...
This ppt is a good game for your students to review words/ phrases related to taking transportation, like a window seat, a round-trip ticket, a passenger, an agent, etc. Divide your class into 2 t ...
Cut the cards and give each pair a bingo card. Name the activities randomly and students cross them out of their card. When they cross all the activities out, they call out Bingo. The first team t ...
Pictionary is a fun game! You can play this game as an ice breaker in the first session of your classes. The game is pretty simple: players take turns silently drawing things written on the index ...
This ppt is a good game for your students to review past simple and directions. Divide your class into 2 teams. Students are going to choose letters by chance. Each question has got a point and if ...
Give each students two cards, agree & disagree. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student f ...
This ppt is a good game for your students to review some topics including formal titles, prepositions of time and place, meeting someone new, introducing someone, etc. It is based on units 1 and ...
This PDF includes a board game related to the vocabulary items of air travel, such as land, take off, duty-free shop, passport control, and etc. The instructions for the game is included. Hope it ...
This game is appropriate for reviewing time, daily routine and present simple. It's suitable for young learners. Divide the class into 2 groups ask them to choose a number, back of each number th ...
The board game is an ideal activity that you do not want to take too long. It is quite a flexible game which rules can be changed to extend the game or add more language. In this game, you n ...
Worksheet about the US elections in November 2016. Includes speaking, reading, vocabulary, listening based on Trump and Clinton's post Orlando speeches and a writing prompt about global risks.&nbs ...
Students use prompts + the subject in the field they land on to make questions/positive/negative sentences. Applicable to all tenses. E.g., revision of past tense. A student rolls a 5 and makes a ...
This boardgame is aimed at elementary or pre-intermediate learners and is designed to provide an opportunity to practise expressing future intentions. Its use is self explanatory. It is a PDF fil ...
I have designed this file for Top Notch 3A, units 3, 4 and 5. It is a fun game to review some phrases and vocabulary items related to units 3, 4 and 5. The teacher has to read out the words by ran ...
This worksheet has been designed for the purpose of revising vocabulary based on the book "Fizz", Unit 10, the A Junior class. Nevertheless, it can be used for young learners studying any other co ...
Cut the cards and write numbers 1-18 on the other side of the cards. Place them on the board so the ss can see the numbers. Divide the class into 2 teams and write the name of each team on the boa ...
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