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Games & Ideas for ESL Classrooms

Are you running out of ideas for teaching your students? Here are tips for ESL games and activities for classrooms. These games have changed the lives of teachers, making their lessons more fun. Whether you need games for communicative activities, reading or writing, you will find ideas here. They work for us, they may work for you. Find out

Speaking,Pronunciation & Listening Games

Hot-seat : A lifetime favorite for most language teachers, this game has long been the cornerstone of most ESL classroom speaking activities and games. It is quite easy to play yet it gets a lot of language out of students if well thought out.
Freeze!or Stop! Ball Game: This game can practice any language point and it is very easy to set up. How to play. Read more...
Hop and Say + Rocks, Paper & Scissors : Perfect and exciting game with cards lined up on the floor. Learn how to play
Talking Volleyball: A high-energy game; talking volleyball will practice vocabulary and simple sentences in a communicative way. How to play. Read more...
Mallet Mallet: A fun game for practicing vocabulary and sentences. How to play
Chinese whispers: A fun game for listening and getting correct pronunciation of words. How to play.
Miming games: Excellent game for eliciting description of actions and adjectives.How to play
Fly swatting: A vocabulary practice game with speaking and pronunciation practice. How to play. Read more...
Musical chairs: How to play- Bring some nice kids music to class. Put chairs in circle and make it short by one chair. Students listen to music and when you stop it they sit down. The one person who remains standing answers a few questions. Game continues.
Telephone Game for Adults : With the telephone game, the teacher takes advantage of students’ cell phones to execute the game. Write down numbers from 0 to 9. Write words with confusing sounds alongside each number number as shown in the example below:

With these words and numbers on the board, the game can begin. One student tells the class his/her number by saying the words that correspond to the numbers on the board. For example if I am the student and my number is 254338, I will say the following words: that, sink, they, say, say, thank. The other students have to punch in the number on their phone as the student says the words that match the numbers. Later, they will call that number to see if they heard it right. If they got it right they get a point. sent in by David Hauxwell, Teacher, UK, EF, Shenzhen

Reading, writing/spelling games

Running Dictation: Skills: Reading, writing ; Requirements: pen and paper and text excerpts. How to play.
Running Dictation for Large classes and Young Learners' Classes- This is excellent for beginners to elementary levels. Also adapted for large classes
I spy something… Skills- Vocabulary, speaking, reading and listening How to play
Memory or Concentration game : Great game for many language skills practice. Skills: Ideal for teaching words that have a close relationship. How to play- Sample
Spelling relay: Skills: Spelling and reading of words. How to play. >>
Word searching games: Reading and spelling game. How to play>>
Mallet Mallet for spelling. How to play. This is a variation of Mallet Mallet described above. But this time students take turns spelling a word.
Chopstick relay : This is a variation of Spelling relay but this time using chopsticks and alphabet cards.
Spelling Bee: Teacher says a word and student spells. Any mistake not allowed.

Printable Board Games for ESL

Board games: Teach and practice English grammar and structure in a communicative way.

Game Templates: Easily customize activities according to the lesson plan of the day using our free board game templates, writing templates

MORE LESSON PLAN MATERIALS & Ideas

Board games: Teach and practice English grammar and structure in a communicative way.

Grammar worksheet- Teach & practice grammar lessons with these worksheets

Vocabulary Worksheets: Teach Vocabulary with carefully planned worksheets

Crossword Puzzles : Fun word puzzles that teach spelling, writing, grammar many language skills.

Word search / Word Association Worksheets: Effectively teach and practice vocabulary, spelling and more using these fantastic word search puzzles

Young Learners' Lesson Plans: phonics, puzzles, games, board games, coloring worksheets, Power point, flash cards-more>>> All HERE!!

PowerPoint: For Computer Assisted Teaching: use these powerpoint lessons where everything has been done for you-No need to look for sound effects, audio, spelling exercises, flash cards Everything has been bundled up-cool!!

Pronunciation & Intonation: Teach English pronunciation using printable worksheets, IPA Charts, and more>>

Speaking Activities: Using these worksheets, you can get a number of communicative activities going

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Worksheet Templates: Easily customize activities according to the lesson plan of the day using our free board game templates, writing templates

Survival English & Business English: English for travels worksheets, Powerpoint and other lesson plan resources - Students Survival English self-study.

Theme or Topic Worksheets : Plan your lesson around a theme with ready made pintables. Zero lesson planning time here. Cool!!

Movie worksheets- Teach English using English movies, Printable worksheets for movies-Have fun!!

Music activities- Teach English using English songs- Worksheets to teach with English songs- It really works!!

Word Formation Worksheets- Teaching prefixes & Suffixes (affixes) to high level students can greatly help to speed up vocabulary building-Try these worksheets in your lessons.

Quizzes & Cloze Exercise: Printable quizzes, cloze & gap fill exercises.

Adult Communicative Lesson plans: Help adults practice grammar & vocabulary using communicative exercises

Holiday/Festivals Worksheets: Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's day, St. Patrick's Day and more>>>

Reading Exercises -Printable Text Mazes, Reading Comprehension printable exercises

Matching & Collocation Exercises- Printable Matching & Collocation Exercises

Games and Ideas for Teaching English to all levels- Running out of ideas? This is where you should go.

Task-based Lesson planning. How to plan a lesson using a task.

Worksheet Makers: If these activities do not meet your needs you can use these online tools to create yours and save time.

ESL Writing Exercises/Worksheets : Printable worksheets to teach esl writing

Articles: Get ideas for your classrooms by reading these ESL Articles

Complete Lesson Plan Packs - Download a complete lesson plan with video, ppt, worksheets

Interactive Grammar Exercises

Some good ESL students usually want the teacher to give them something they can use to study alone at home. They usually like to do the grammar & vocabulary exercises at home and use the classroom lessons to improve on their communicative skills. Here are some great homework companions for your students.

Grammar Exercises : Several interactive grammar exercises for self-study. Give links as homework to your students.

Video Slides Lessons -Let students learn new English vocabulary by using video slides that teach them. this reduces the teacher's burden of presenting new vocabulary.

Vocabulary & Grammar quizzes for beginners, intermediate & Advanced students

Pronunciation and intonations Exercises : using video slides and self-grading quizzes, students can practice pronunciation here

Interactive Crossword Puzzles : Fun exercises- Online crossword puzzles

Interactive Word Search Puzzles : Fun exercise- Online word searches

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