Variations on the game Taboo: For variation 1, create a PowerPoint presentation with a noun on each slide. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with their back to the PowerPoint. The rest of the students take turns describing the words on the slides, and the student at the front has to guess them. For variation 2, separate the students into groups of four or five. Place a pile of cards with random nouns in the center of each group. Have students take turns describing a noun for their group members to guess.
Variation 3 is for advanced speakers. Separate the class into two teams. Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition to a list of words that they cannot use in their description.
Each student should have two to three minutes to see how many words their teammates can guess. They must describe the picture for their partner to draw. Comic strip descriptions: Give each student a portion of a comic strip.
Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order. After about 10 minutes, the students can guess the order, show one another their portion, and see if they were correct. Secret word: Students are given a random topic and a random word that is unrelated to the topic. The other students listen carefully to the speech and attempt to guess the secret word.
Or the grammar you started to learn one year ago? There are ESL grammar, vocabulary and speaking games. My English has improved a lot. Ruzzle is the proven word puzzle game. You will have to make your brain work a lot, but by the end you will have learnt a lot of new English words.
The game is connected to Facebook and Twitter, thus you can enlist your friends anytime. Their ESL game is super simple and thus very enjoyable. You just click and click, carry the moment. When you realize you learn new words and come across new and interesting phrases. Free Rice. Free Rice is a very exciting ESL game.
What is the absolute peculiarity of the game is that with each correct answer you donate 10 grains of rice to the people living in poor countries.
This is not just a game! Learn more about World Food Programm. BrainPop Esl. Brain Pop has long been on the market. Try it too! Games to Learn English. You can play various games on Games to Learn English website. For example, Hangman, Compare and Falling Clouds.
A whole collection of games is here for you. TV game shows are a great source of ideas for ESL games for adults, and one of the easiest to implement is the classic British programme Countdown. Players take turns selecting a consonant or a vowel to produce nine random letters, and from these letters they have to make the longest word they can.
Not that you want to encourage this, but because students work individually and it consists of multiple short rounds, students can join in as they arrive with minimum disruption.
The easiest way to play this game is with our interactive Countdown game. Unlike other online tools this gives you the option to set the time allowed to one minute instead of thirty seconds as in the TV game show , the latter being too difficult for all but the most advanced students.
Not only is it a fun competitive activity, the way in which it gets students thinking about language and related words is ideal for the start of a class. You can also use it to practise modal verbs of possibility e. That might be true…. There are two options for implementation.
For a quick warm-up activity, pre-prepared definitions work best, and our interactive Call My Bluff game is ready to use for this purpose. Present ten words as a quiz, with teams scoring a point for each correct guess.
If you have more time however, you could ask the teams to prepare words and definitions themselves first. They could even include example sentences for each option. Many of the above games are well-suited to vocabulary practice, but what about grammar? The great thing about Jeopardy is you can use it with almost any language topic, and its adaptability makes it the ideal choice for a review class. Simply choose five topics your class has studied recently, and write five questions related to each of them.
Each question in a topic category is worth a different number of points; teams choose a category and points value which reveals their question, and are awarded that number of points if their answer is correct. Many of the segments they use are great fun to play in class, and work particularly well as warm-up activities.
Perhaps the most popular is Password, a game in which students guess vocabulary words from single-word clues. This game is played with two or three teams, and one student from each team sitting at the front facing away from the board. Write or project a word on the board — our interactive Password game has suitable pre-prepared words you can use. In this game students silently mouth words or phrases to their teammate s. Our interactive Whisper Challenge game allows you to do this, and even plays background music to mask any whispered sounds.
It might just seem like a bit of fun, but the game actually practises an important skill. Lip-reading is a significant element of interpreting speech, especially in noisy environments. The student mouthing the word also practises enunciating clearly and correctly. Instead of just recognising vocabulary words, this exercise requires students to put together coherent sentence descriptions, great for practising fluency.
On the TV show players are shown a strange object in secret, which they can choose to describe truthfully, or invent a different description. In the classroom we simply replace these strange objects with random pictures, shown to a student at the front on the computer. You could source your own images, but the easiest way to play is using our Box Of Lies generator. As students are describing a picture, the game also doubles as a way to practise that skill, including the correct use of prepositions.
When students have finished their description, their classmates have to guess whether they were describing truthfully, or inventing something completely different.
Vocabulary category games are really popular with any age group, and perfect as a no-prep warmer. Perhaps the most well known of these games is Scattergories.
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