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 variation from Iluna's worksheet (https://busyteacher.org/17544-how180s-the-weather.html). The first page is exactly the same ; you can use it to introduce or review the voc. I created d ...
This worksheet contains some of the most widespread English words that are used in other languages as well (for example football, tennis, etc). Students of all levels can fill in the crossword bas ...
Saw this board game online and thought of a good game to play. Each student has to make a sentence on each square using a conjunction and by rolling a dice, they choose which conjunction to use. F ...
This is a boardgame for teaching or revising animals related vocabulary at elementary level. It is played in groups or pairs with dice and counters, when students land on a square they must make ...
Students must choose 20 words among 24 they think they can find in the lyrics. The idea is to keep them paying attention to the sound of words, vocabulary and enjoy the great music by The Beatles. ...
This is a picture crossword for revising family related vocabulary at elementary level. Using the across and down clues, students are asked to write the correct word in the numbered grid give ...
I couldn't find a suitable crossword related to money vocabulary so I made one myself. Hope it is helpful. I use it mostly with my pre-ints and they take up quite some time to complete it as some ...
These are bingo boards on multi-part verbs for students of lower intermediate level. The aim of the game is to cross one (could be two or three depending on how much time you plan to spend on the ...
The topic of the game is: British festivals. The game is useful to memorize some facts connected with the topic. It can be used during the lesson: “British Festivals”. To play the game ...
Divide the class into two equal teams. Everyone in the class should have several pieces of paper and a pen. Have one player come up from each team and sit at the front of the class. The ...
This worksheet is aimed at teachers and advanced students interested in learning about the different types of learning processes. It describes each type of intelligence briefly, and the most suita ...
A fun crossword to test students' knowledge of London's very own East End Cockney rhyming slang. An every day slang invented in the mid nineteenth century and still used by many Londoners today, w ...
This is a crossword puzzle for teaching computers and Internet related vocabulary. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down clues ...
This is a board game I design for my ESL adult beginners class. It deals with the third person affirmative, negative and questions with do and also with jobs. These are the answers (in case you ne ...
This is a crossword puzzle for revising environment related vocabulary. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down clues provided. T ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to place the words in the correct place of the grid and then match them with ...
This is a crossword for teaching collective nouns.Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down clues given.The answer key is included.
Ss revise the vocabulary about flowers. It's a crossword. There are pictures to identify and then write the name in the squares cross and down. I hope with this crossword your students will learn ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching types of houses related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to complete the crossword by using the picture clue provided. The worksheet is ...
The crossword is intended to teach students clothes which are plural. Students are to solve the crossword on the basis of pictures given. It is suitable for elementary students- level A1. It can b ...
If you have a slide projector, you can use this projecting this doc on the whiteboard or on a big white paper panel where your students can use the marker to highlight the words projected. You hav ...
I have been searching for some bingo cards that I could change the numbers into words but I couldn’t find any so I have made some.Each card is very similar and can be used as numeric bingo c ...
This is a pretty simple picture crossword for teaching Easter related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword puzzle by using the picture clue prov ...
This worksheet will be useful to revise some vocabulary: Toys and Means of Transport. It can be used as a picture dictionary too. In the first task, learners will do a crossword. Then, they will b ...
This worksheet provides some banking vocabulary, two crosswords, and a wordsearch. It is done or good for business and marketing students. The first page includes the banking vocabulary, and the o ...
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