Find a wide range of free teaching resources that are perfect for students learning English, ESL classes and teachers looking for ideas online. Enjoy interactive games, classroom activities, printable worksheets and more! 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. It is also a brilliant ice breaker between students if you teach classes who do not know one another — and especially essential if you are teaching a small class size.
The game is excellent for practicing English speaking skills, though make sure you save some time for after the game to comment on any mistakes students may have made during the game. Actually this stems for a party or drinking game at universities and can be adapted to what ever vocabulary or topic you are teaching at the time. In the university version we all stick a post it to our foreheads and have to guess the famous person we are.
Similar to the Guess who game above. In ESL or Classroom use we can do this with Jobs , animals, furniture, absolutely anything all you need are some post its or similar to stick to peoples heads or backs — anywhere they can not read it. It is a great ESL speaking game for classrooms with limited resources. This classic classroom activity still has a place in modern classrooms.
Students simply bring in something they would like to Show and Tell to their classmates. It practices students speaking ability, and their ability to prepare short written scripts that they will have to read. For those not talking it practices their listening ability, especially if you add a could of quiz questions at the end of each show and tell part. You can change this by having a mystery box and they have to describe the item with out looking to their classmates and have them try to guess or the student of course what it is.
Maybe its because i am writing this just a couple of days after Christmas, but I notice there are a lot of party games in this list.
It might be that, but it might also be because they just work. Everyone, young and old, likes to have fun and these games provide that in abundance. Taboo is no exception.
It is simply a deck of cards, you can make your own or pick up a glossy set on Amazon for not much. On the card they have one target word and four words underneath. The player, in one minute or what ever time limit you decide to set has to try to explain what the target word is with out mentioning it, or the four related words underneath.
The beauty of this game is that you can adapt it to whichever topic you have been studying and make it easier or more difficult depending on the age and abilities of your students.
It works in ESL and native speaking classrooms. This is a nice physical game for warm up or for end of class consolidation. You just need a bean bag and some ideas. It is similar to the Mallets Mallet Word assocation game above but involves the who class rather than pairs at the front. This is great fun and students of ALL ages get into it very quickly.
You can also allow then to pick their own subjects after a few goes. The simple fact is that students of all ages learn better when they are having fun. If you can try to incorporate some of these English Speaking games and activities into your lessons then you will find that more and more your students are willing to engage and practice the language you are teaching them. There are hundreds more activities, but these are our favorites.
We have a booklet of ten of them for free download if you want an idea of some of the resources behind them, but we will also be putting them up on the site as time goes by so you can take them individually as you need. You can use this fairy tale boardgame or design your own. Students roll the dice and tell their story by using the character they land on. You can use people, objects, places, and make the game as long or as short as you want their stories to be.
This game is guaranteed to spark conversations. Print a copy of the What a Life worksheet and cut out the different slips of paper that contain information on major life events.
Students take turns taking a slip of paper out of a bag. They read their life-altering event out loud, and the rest of the class asks questions about it. As students take their turns, keep a tally on the board of how many questions each student asks. The student who asks the most questions in total wins. Variation : Students stand in front of the class and reveal a major event in their lives; it could be a memorable vacation or party, or an important milestone, like a graduation or their first job.
Write short messages on slips of paper; each message should describe a problem or a symptom: I have a fever and a stuffy nose. Students take turns taking a piece of paper. They must read the problem out loud and then proceed to give their recommendation: This person should stay in bed and get plenty of rest.
They should also drink lots of water and take aspirin for the fever. Variation : Write other types of problems your students could solve, perhaps difficulties related to studying English, financial troubles or any kind they might share advice on. Or the grammar you started to learn one year ago?
There are ESL grammar, vocabulary and speaking games. My English has improved a lot. Ruzzle is the proven word puzzle game. You will have to make your brain work a lot, but by the end you will have learnt a lot of new English words. The game is connected to Facebook and Twitter, thus you can enlist your friends anytime. Their ESL game is super simple and thus very enjoyable. You just click and click, carry the moment.
When you realize you learn new words and come across new and interesting phrases. Free Rice. Free Rice is a very exciting ESL game. What is the absolute peculiarity of the game is that with each correct answer you donate 10 grains of rice to the people living in poor countries. This is not just a game! Learn more about World Food Programm. BrainPop Esl. Brain Pop has long been on the market.
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