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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Computers and Internet crossword puzzle is in three parts. I did not originally make this puzzle; however, I did edit it so that it now includes all of the clues. I do not know its original crea ...
Hangman Game with school supplies vocabulary. Have students select a letter of the alphabet. Click on the keyboard button with the appropriate letter on it. If the letter is contained in the word/ ...
There are three exercises in this worksheet. In exercise 1 students have to match the words with the pictures. In exercise 2 they have to find some words in the word search. In exercise 3 they hav ...
This is a colourful handout for your students to have and learn about the weather while they are practicing this vocabulary in a crossword. I have used it in my class and my students really enjoy ...
A Word search with vocabulary related to Canadian money and banking. It contains 21 words. Many of the words are generic and would be familiar to learners in the United States, the U.K. and elsewh ...
This is simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and introduces students to using English in doing Math. Introduces the vocabulary 'plus', 'minus', 'times', 'divided by' and 'equ ...
A very fun game for the classroom in a PowerPoint, which can be easily edited to suit your needs. Typhoon means your team chooses another team to go to 0, a bomb means your team goes back to zero, ...
It is a crossword puzzle for beginners where learners are called to identify, through clues, classroom objects which they should learn from the very first days in class in order to get used to lis ...
This is a crosswords puzzle with words to unscramble. I would add translations of each word in your students' mother tongue or definitions/explanations to make it easier. I was asked by one of my ...
This game involves vocabulary practice about sea animals. Students have to match the pictures to the words. They choose one rectangle and click on it. There is a picture or a word on the card. The ...
This worksheet is part (2) of a 4 part set that includes vocabulary words, crossword puzzle, sentence cloze, and wordsearch. I hope it is useful to everyone interested. I use these sets for my En ...
This worksheet is part (3) of a 4 part set that includes vocabulary words, crossword puzzle, sentence cloze, and wordsearch. I hope it is useful to everyone interested. I use these sets for my En ...
This worksheet is part (2) of a 4 part set that includes vocabulary words, crossword puzzle, sentence cloze, and wordsearch. I hope it is useful to everyone interested. I use these sets for my En ...
How much do your students know about soccer equipment and vocabulary? Do they know the names of gear and equipment items used in soccer? Teachers can use this activity as a trigger for speaking an ...
It´s summer time. You can revise some words related to summer and train your students´ concentration skills and memories with this PPT. Students have to find the matching pairs: they h ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising food and drinks related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces i ...
FIFA World Cup tournament is around the corner and people are getting ready to watch the games. Are you ready for this big event? How much do you know about football (soccer) expressions used by c ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in th ...
I use this template with all levels of secondary school students to practise vocabulary. The students take their current vocabulary lists, create a crossword puzzle with a set of 10 words and then ...
The ws is about The Colossus of Rhodes - one of the world wonders. The rhyme is taken from the net. Students will compare 2 statues, do a quizz, put the verbs in the correct form, solve the crossw ...
Unscramble 10 keywords about the overall-topic of 'wine'. Find out the final sentence by means of the numbered cases. I created this for a group of beginners (German) therefore I added transl ...
Another word search but with nouns and more general terms. I use it to have the students find the word themselves and then go through the list to ensure they know the meaning of the words in the c ...
This worksheet is intended to introduce the titles of family members for young, beginner students. It includes: a family prompt and questions, a word search, a match the person with the descriptio ...
This crossword puzzle was made for 16-18-year-old college students, but it can be used for students of any age. The aim was to revise the names of tools. The workshee is black-and-white and contai ...
How much do you know about Soccer World Cup? Take this quiz in English and test yourself. Teachers can use this activity as a trigger for speaking and teamwork. This activity can help the teacher ...
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