Divide the class into two teams and one person from each team will choose a paper and act the word out. A team receives a point for every correctly guessed word.
Pictionary is like a charade, but your students will draw, instead of acting the words out. You can use the cards from the actual board game for this activity, or make your own! Similar to charades, you also need to divide the class into two teams. The student must convey the word to his or her team using only drawings. There are certain rules such as students cannot use words, symbols or hand gestures.
Each student should have a time limit of 3 minutes. The first team to get 10 points is the winning team. Divide the class into two teams and give each team a colored marker. Draw a line down the middle of the board and write a topic at the top. The students must then write as many words related to the topic in a relay. The first person will write the first word and pass the colored marker to the one next in line. Score each team with one point for each correct word.
Unreadable or misspelled words are not counted. Looking for a game which can help your students practice synonyms and descriptions? Try Taboo Words — suitable for more advanced learners. Divide the class into two and have the two teams sit on opposite sides of the room, facing each other. They can, and have been, played with second language kindergarten students all the way up to native speaking business people with the same amount of fun.
The language from the business people was perhaps a little ruder than the kindergarten children but only a little! It is a superb English speaking game for ESL students and native speakers. In it they had a rather colorful character called Timmy Mallet who, among other things, played a game called mallets mallet. In this game the players, always children, had to think of a word associated with whatever Timmy said.
There was no hesitation, repetition, or ummm or errrrrs allowed or they got a bonk on the head. This is easier to show you than explain so here is a video of it!
They have to say a word related to the previous word in 3 seconds or less. They can not repeat, pause or say something unrelated. For fun they can play against the teacher as well. They can do this by picking and reading a wish out of the bag and then trying to guess who it belongs to.
They hav to give a reason why they think that. Note: I have done this, or a version of this, many times without issue. However there was one time when a student wrote that they wished their parents would get back together which was pretty heartbreaking. Although it is superb to share, in front of a class of other students may not be the time or place. I did of course talk to her after and sought some help from others in the school.
It may be worth while including instructions to keep it light. Adaptations: This is also great as an Icebreaker activity for students and teacher to get to know each other.
You can keep the activity as wishes or ask them to write three things about themselves. You can even change it to two things true and one lie to add some fun and creativity. This is my number one game. It is just perfect for all levels of English learner. It can be made easier for younger and ESL students and learners and more difficult for higher levels.
No matter what level of learner is in the class you can use this game. Now watch the video to see someone very VERY good at asking the questions in action.
It is better to teacher this to students with at least a basic abilty, but it doesnt have to be high level as you can level the wuestion you ask. Tips: Ask questions starting with do you, can you , will you etc usually catch students out. Also you can repeat the students answer and add yes, or no to the end and it might catch them out to nod or repeat you. It is simply awesome to play this and as I said earlier even 5 and 6 year olds quickly grasp this English speaking game. Once i have played it with my students it is the most requested speaking game every lesson following that.
Allowing your students to communicate with each other takes off some of the pressure of a whole class environment and allows them to risk take with their English speaking in a less public arena. In this game, each student in the pair draws a picture, keeping their paper shielded from the eyes of their partner. Ideally, pictures should be fairly simple. Once the picture is complete, they explain to their partner, using words only, how to replicate the image this can be done at a desk or as a whispers type activity across school halls if you want a more physical speaking game.
He may miss out how many windows, the family in front of it or all manner of details. This allows the teacher to compare the two drawings with the students and ask what language they could have added to get more details into the picture.
This really enables students to start to think about expanding and adding to the phrases they say. The difference in drawings is often pretty funny as well. It is probably easier and more adaptable for the culture or location you are teaching in to make a simple version with famous people from your area.
They also incorporate features of the classroom, such as the whiteboard or walls of the room and therefore require less prep than other ESL activities on this list. These games, best of all, require minimal preparation or materials beforehand. If you value your prep time, these are for you! There are tons of free web resources such as Games to Learn English that you can use to find engaging online games specifically designed for ESL.
In addition to the advantage of having so many options on the web at your fingertips, many of these online games are also highly adaptable, so customizing them to fit the preferences of your students and the current content you are teaching is easy.
While all of the games listed previously foster interaction between students to some degree, the following ESL game options in this section are really focused on speech and conversing with one another. To combat this common classroom issue, use an ESL conversation game to break up the class and mix your talkative students with your quiet students.
Having the focus not be on just one speaker at a time can really help all your students increase time speaking in the classroom while practicing within the structure of a well-crafted game. Grammar is arguably one of the most difficult things to simultaneously teach AND keep interesting. Luckily incorporating games into your lesson plan can be a perfect way to liven it up. You can choose to play some of these games at the end of a lesson to really bring home the concept you were teaching.
If your students already know some of the material, these games could then be played at the start of a lesson as a review and warm-up activity to prep them for your lesson. In , we are well into the fourth industrial revolution. Think of how different the typical modern classroom looks compared to one from just a few decades ago — then imagine that rate of change at digitized warp speed.
That is where we are headed. The landscape of the future digitized classroom will look quite different in just a few short years than it does now.
There may be drawbacks to this educational evolution, but one of the benefits is certainly the opportunity for interactive learning. Here are the top interactive ESL games to incorporate in your lesson plans assuming you have access to computers and the web.
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