Add more objects to make the game more challenging. Students form a circle and one student starts by whispering a sentence into the ear of the student next to him. Have students incorporate at least one new vocabulary word or the newly-learned grammar structure in their sentence. At the end of the circle, have the last student say the sentence out loud and see how close or hilariously far it is from the original sentence!
Need ideas for the virtual classroom too? Here are 11 low-prep ESL games for teaching online. Keep an inflatable ball in your classroom or use something else, like a balled-up piece of paper, in a pinch! Change the question mid-game. The random nature of the ball toss keeps students on their toes. Teenagers and students with more experience with English are typically better able to use it in a more productive and communicative fashion. 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.
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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. This ESL game does tend to work better with older kids, but, you could adjust your statements for a younger student e.
This is a great ESL game for checking students vocabulary and supporting them with phonetic sounds and spellings. You start with a word relevant to the lesson, say you have been learning about different fruit, so the first word is apple.
Your student must then think of a fruit beginning with e — elderflower. Then you must think of a fruit beginning with r — rhubarb.
And so on:. Now, this could be rather challenging for your lower-level ESL students. This would allow them more freedom and flexibility with their answers, providing a higher chance for lower-level students to be able to participate in this activity.
So, how do you get young learners interested in learning vocabulary? The best way is through fun and exciting ESL vocabulary games and activities. This classic classroom game is incredibly fun and a great activity to get your students motivated and energized. All you need is a soft ball and some flashcards. Students will pass the ball around the class and when the music stops, the student with the ball must answer a question from the teacher.
Another way to play is, when the music stops, the student with the ball can ask the question and all the other students must answer. This way all students get to practice the vocabulary while playing the game.
This ESL vocabulary game is a great alternative to regular bingo. Give each student or pair of students one set of vocabulary cards. Ask them to place them in a horizontal line in any order they want. Once students have placed their cards in a line, the game can begin. The teacher should say one of the words and if that word is on the left end or the right end of the line then students can turn that card over.
If the card is in the middle of the line, students cannot turn it over. Then the teacher can answer using one of the words on the card e. To make this vocabulary game more fun, invite your students one by one to the front of the class to choose the next word. This simple no prep game is a great way to get students to utilize all their existing vocabulary while learning new words at the same time.
This is a seat at the front of the class facing the other students.
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