Teach with Games

Games

Lots of ideas for using games in the classroom.

This is a great activity to get students moving about and practise some vocabulary or sentence structures.

This is a good game for high-energy groups when you need to get them all sitting down and on task.

This is a game to make any gap-fill task or cloze texts (reading tasks with gaps) more exciting.

This is great for the first class with a new group or when you come back to class after a holiday or even after a weekend.

This is like a role-play activity with no dialogue!

This is great for those logical-mathematical thinkers. Think of a word (start with a four letter word until you get the hang of it, then you can do it with longer words) and mark four lines, like you would in a game of hang-man.

This activity is extremely simple. Each student adds a word to create a group story. Despite the simplicity it can be really challenging and I would only use it with higher levels.

This is the classic children’s party game.

This is a simple word game to start of finish a lesson. You can adapt it to any topic you’re doing or one you want to revise.

This is a fun activity to create a group story. Each student needs a blank sheet of paper and a pen. If possible, sit in a circle shape to play.