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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London sights beside the River Thames. This worksheet is a crossword puzzle including the sights of London (London Eye, Madame Tussauds, Tower of London). The students have to fill in the solution ...
The Kitchen game cards were designed like Taboo game cards. There are 49 cards about food, drinks and kitchen stuff. These game cards are another part of The Kitchen project. The Kitchen is a the ...
This is an first-day board game to help students get to know each other and get them talking in English. Lower to mid intermediate level. Played in groups of 3-4. Students flip a coin and move two ...
Using the worksheet and an alphabet dice (or just by randomly choosing a letter out of a hat) you can practice vocabulary. You can change the headings to anything you are studying. This game is ...
This is a simple wordsearch for elementary students including basic animal names. It aims to test students' receptive knowledge of these names by testing spelling at the same time. Problem so ...
For practicing the present simple tense, you can play this game with your students. Here are some rules for the players. The Game Rules:
1-To start playing you should answer the first Q 2- Go up ...
Little children learn better if they enjoy their learning. Board game is an effective way to do so. In this activity little children can practice some warm up activities, speak about what they can ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising the past simple. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the game and make a correct sentence ...
It is an amaaaaaaaazing board game for students who just started to read!!! There are three pages (first two pages are cards- you should cut them) and the third page is the board.
First page - pi ...
Here is a crossword with negative prefixes. Students are to fill in the crossword with words beginning with im-, in-, un- or ir-. There are 17 words, mostly adjectives and a few verbs. It is a one ...
This worksheet contains four different exercises on two pages. Most of them can be done in pairs. The lesson plan, including the lead-in and follow-up activity, is on page three (it is only my sug ...
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the basic cooking verbs that mostly used in baking. It includes video, board game, cake decorating challenge. It is great for practicing listening, ...
This is a simple picture crossword for revising food related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down picture clues. The ...
This crossword puzzle is good for practising basic environment vocabulary. In general, I believe that crosswords, word searches etc. are fun and they help students acquire necessary vocabulary in ...
This is a set of crosswords all related to each other. The solution of the first will be the 1st line of the 2nd crossword. From the marked letters students can create a new word that helps solvin ...
This is an interactive board game which is aimed for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the ...
A set containing two kinds of cards to play the game. Suitable both for pairwork and groups. The first type of cards gives a topics (my last birthday; music I hate; presents...). The second type o ...
This is a colourful boardgame for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice and counters when they land on a square they are asked mo make a sente ...
The boardgame practices Noun Plurals, mostly irregular. Students in pairs or groups use dice and take turns making the nouns in the pictures plural and making sentences with them (another option m ...
Pupils must find letters to create sentences about road safety. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a number. Example if the letter A corresponds to number 1, you write down A on each box w ...
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
This board game is based on NEF beginner. The things which are being practised are: 1-10, countries - flags, nationalities - a person and a flag, to be - making full sentences positive, negative a ...
This worksheet consists of two exercises: a crossword puzzle and a gap-fill exercise. It can be used for practising or revising the vocabulary related to natural disasters. It is fun and you can c ...
This complete worksheet is for practising BE and HAVE, basic sentence structures, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns, a/an with the help of a basic vocabulary. The worksheet contains ga ...
This is a critical thinking activity (crossword) for Elementary students about the Olympic Games in which students can recognize some sports of the olympic games.
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