ESL Boggle — Boggle is a great warmer that can be used in the classroom. With this online version get students writing words to be the top of the class. ESL Quizzes — Our Quizzes are a great way to end class and practice key vocabulary for a wide range of themes.
Check back regularly as we are adding new quizzes regularly. Question Unscramble — Practice grammar and speaking by unscrambling these questions which cover 15 different grammar topics. Would You Rather — A simple no-prep warmer or cooler to get students speaking about what they would rather do in different situations. There are over 80 part 1 questions and 24 part 2. Movers Spot the Difference — Practice for the Cambridge Movers Speaking exam with this free fun interactive online game.
Practice lateral thinking and reading with this brain teasers for all ages and levels. Spot The Difference — Can you spot the differences? Levels 1 — 8 are now available, more levels coming soon. This activity is great to help students practice for the Cambridge Movers exam. Irregular Verb Challenge — Practice irregular verbs with your students using this tool. This versatile game can be played in many different ways and is a great routine to master irregular verbs with your students.
Football Kick Off — Are your students football mad? Then this might be the game for you. Which team will win in this fantastic football game. Classroom Car Race — Rev your engines and get ready to win it big with this fun car race themed board game.
Ideal to use with your own questions and help keep the score. A quick no fuss way to gamify your lessons with no printouts. Wheel of Fortune — Spin the wheel and win points for up to five teams. Hidden Treasure — In this game students need to answer questions set by the teacher and try and find the hidden treasure before the others. The first to find it wins! Student Vs Teacher — Who will win in this turn based based game? The student or the teacher?
ESL Battleship — Battleship is another engaging scoring system that will have students wanting more! How quickly can your students find all the ships and win? Four in a Row Connect Four — This classic game can be used in many different ways in the classroom, as a treat, with speaking or while doing revision. Blockbuster — Gamify your online and face to face lessons with Blockbuster. Use this game to practice vocabulary, word formation or just about any activity.
Students work in teams and have to get across the board. Basketball Shoot — A simple game you can use to gamify you classes. This basketball themed game allows you to use your own material but use this fun game to allow students to use their skill to score a point. Great with mixed ability sports crazy classes.
Virtual Classroom Horse Race — Bring your students to the horse races with this simple interactive game. Have students choose a horse and see who wins! Great to gamify your class and make everyone have a chance of winning big. Tic Tac Toe — Play this classic versatile game with our interactive board game and gamify you lessons quickly and easily.
Who will win? Dragons or Unicorns? Math Skills — Practice addition, subtraction, division and multiplication with this fun online game. How Many? Addition Challenge — A quick fire addition maths game that will help your students practice quick thinking with numbers and addition in English or any target language. Number Match — A simple multiplication challenge to get students thinking and multiplying in English. A great warmer to get your students thinking and focused! These ESL games can be a great way to get your teenage or intermediate learners involved in the classroom and prompt them to use their knowledge of English.
Teaching online? Take a look at this 5-point checklist for planning online ESL games for teens. Turn it into a competition to speak only English during the whole period. Keep a tally on the whiteboard for each time a student speaks in their native tongue. Cookies for everyone! Read about the most popular and effective ESL teaching methods. It can also be adapted to a variety of language levels and target grammar.
Find out how to create ESL grammar lesson plans. Have one student stand next to a seated student. The standing student must make it around the world around the class by correctly answering the question before each of the seated students does. If the standing student can answer correctly enough times to make it around the class, they have won! Pass a ball or other object around the room and when the music stops, the student with the ball has to answer a question, make a question, or draw a prompt out of a bag — you decide, though it is best to stick to one format for the duration of the game!
Write the numbers one through six on the board and a different question word who, what, why, where, when, how next to each one. When a student rolls the dice, he or she needs to make a question with the corresponding question word. Then, the student will call on a classmate to answer it. Use minimal pairs words that sound similar and are often mispronounced by EFL learners to make a list on the board. Examples: 1. Students must write a number five or six digits long and then say their number using only the corresponding words.
Check out other ESL pronunciation games. Students form a circle this can be as a whole class or in small groups. Give the sentence to the first student, who continues the story by writing the second sentence before she passes it to the next student, who continues. At the end of the circle, have a student read the completed story.
It is sure to get a laugh! Keeping young students interested and engaged can be a difficult task, but if you do, everyone in the classroom including the teacher benefits. These games and activities for teaching English to kids and teens can help plan effective lessons for students of all ages and levels!
It can be monotonous for us teachers, let alone kids. Especially, if the company does not offer an interactive platform with different tools and games included for students to get involved with. Kids are taught slide, after slide, after slide…..
It is DULL! If students are finding the lesson dull and boring, their interests are going to decrease and lead to behaviour outbursts and complete disengagement during class. Learning should be fun, not monotonous. There are so many ways we can help our students enjoy their learning experience with puppets, videos, songs, visual props, and of course, games. Using Games for Kids within the ESL online classroom is one of the best ways to increase engagement and encourage students to participate.
Incorporating games within our lessons offer so many benefits to our students:. This game is a classic and one that all students can participate with no matter their English level and understanding. You can easily make this game relevant to the lesson content or use as a review activity. Pictionary is a classic and again one suitable for low-level students.
This game can even encourage your most shy students to participate. There are so many ways you can play Pictionary, here are a few of my favourites:. This can still be used as an ESL game for kids. It helps students to. The idea is that for each traffic light colour, you set instructions for students to follow.
Within your online classroom, you can set numerous instructions such as. You simply place something in a box and students have to guess what it is. This can be a suitable game for different levelled learners:. This is a fantastic game that can be applied to all ages and abilities also.
The idea is for students to be able to list something from a given category independently. For example, if the category given is fruit, you compete against your student to each list as many fruits as possible. Then, within the categories column, I would add a list of different categories e. The first person to be able to name one thing from each category wins. For lower ability students, I always make a couple of intentional mistakes or miss a few to help build their self-esteem and let them win.
For my older, more able students, I add in a timer so that they have only so long to complete the whole grid. I personally use this as a reward at the end of a lesson, but it works just as well if you are teaching particular topics such as animals, family or careers.
The students and I take it in turns to provide statements and the other person has to guess which animal they are. The person being the animal has to provide statements in the first person.
This person can provide statements or clues until the second person guesses the animal correctly:. You can adjust the difficulty of this activity, from using one-worded statements e. Or for more advanced students, they could focus on certain facts such as what country they live in, climate, what it likes to eat, etc. The concept is simple.
Each person takes a turn to provide three statements about themselves. Two statements must be true and one must be a lie. The other person must ask questions in order to figure out which statement is a lie.
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