ESL Activities Games Worksheets

Call out a list of five objects, with all but one of which having something in common. For example, call outbanana, apple, orange, peach, carrot. Ask the student to identify which one doesn’t belong to the group. Depending on the student’s level, you can also ask him or her to explain why the object is different from the rest on the list. For example, in the list above, carrot is the odd one out because it’s a vegetable and the rest are fruits.
Added to the good news are the templates we offer that you can use to create customized games for your classroom and teaching. ESL Games World is the ultimate English learning fun lab with lots of since game interactive exercises for teachers and students of English. This site is brought to you free of charge by the same team that brought you the ESL-galaxy.com, englishmedialab.com and ESLtower.com.

Each game comes with full teacher’s notes and most of the games take very little preparation and are easy to set up and play. My aim here, then, is to give you some ideas for short games and activities you can do with young children during your online classes. And there you have it ladies and gentlemen, my top 8 games for ESL teachers. Any effective games that draw the language out of the students? Set the class up like you would for eraser racer but replace the erasers with sticky balls. Put an object on the floor around 2 meters from the board (this will be their throwing point; they can’t cross this point to throw).
In this game students silently mouth words or phrases to their teammate. Normally it’s best to limit possible words to a given vocabulary category to make guessing easier. Our interactive Whisper Challenge game allows you to do this, and even plays background music to mask any whispered sounds.

I was lucky enough to usually be teaching in connected classrooms with access to projectors . I’ve used ESL games both as warm-up activities and as the main focus of a lesson to reinforce different pieces of target language. If you can’t tell from the number of them on this list, I love trivia games.
The games can be easily adapted to any age or level and are certainly guaranteed to get your students’ attention. In this section, you will find fun ESL classroom games for practicing regular and irregular verb forms. You can also use these games to help students practice using verbs in a variety of tenses to make sentences and questions. These lively and fun classroom games combine music with learning and help students to practice or review vocabulary. Here is a set of rewarding classroom games to improve students’ listening skills. You can use these listening games to teach a variety of vocabulary, language structures and topics.
They’re fun, engaging, and best of all, will get students interacting with you, and most importantly, each other. Keep on reading for some of my favourite interactive ESL Games.

Each category can be as easy or difficult as you want. And another added bonus is that then you have it for your own game nights with friends. It can be hard to find ESL activities for classes with learners at different levels, so this is a great option. I’ve taught siblings with large age differences and needed games that everyone could participate in together. Choose any picture from Google or have your students describe a photo they like that they took on their phone. Make them go into as much detail as possible and use pics that help them review vocab that you’ve taught them. Also you can have them make up a story about the image.
Next, they ask each other how to get to the destinations in the map. They can practice both asking and giving directions in this worksheet. In this map of Wichita Kansas, students practice turning left and right. In addition, they learn to move backwards and forwards. In groups of 4, students pick the category and point value. After flipping over the card, the fastest group to raise their hands make a question. Don’t be afraid to give negative points if they are too slow to respond or make an incorrect question.

Try out this quick warmer activity if your students have studied the topic of the day before. It’s ideal for helping to activate prior knowledge before jumping into the heart of your lesson. For example, even before teaching the unit, most teenage students will know lots of vocabulary for things like jobs, weather, animals, etc. Concentration is one of my favorite ESL games for teenagers because it’s an excellent way to calm a rowdy class.

The first team to hit it gets the point, if neither hit you look at the closest one to the target. This was one of my favorite games to play when I was teaching, it is an exciting board race game that all students seem to love. Sometimes the hardest thing is getting kids to start speaking. So this is a great game to break the ice and build their vocabulary. You can Google dozens of printable decks of cards online in any vocabulary set you want. To make it more challenging, use cards with only pictures, no vocab words, and make your students speak in full sentences and questions. In addition to that you can use sets with multiple pictures to incorporate numbers into the game.
Downloadable songs to pay in your lessons available right here on ESL KidStuff. Lots of free lesson plans to print right here on ESL KidStuff.
The games are ideal for teaching or revising a range of vocabulary and language points. Here you will find fun ESL games to motivate your students to answer questions. These games can be used in any situation where students have to answer questions in class, e.g. answering exercise questions, etc. The games can be used to introduce new vocabulary, reinforce a language point, practice words or language structures, teach or practice grammar and improve core skills. This is one of my students’ favorite games and is always at the top of the list when I ask them what they want to play. I have never used this while teaching ESL to adults, but I imagine it would work well.
Your lessons will be more enjoyable for your students if you’re having fun in them too. Here are some preset boards and questions but I liked creating my own to customize the lesson. If you can use a computer in your class, this website has various interactive computer games like Jeopardy.