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Games
Interactive Practice For Present Continuous For Arrangements
Ways of practising the future meaning of Present Continuous For Arrangements through students speaking and writing to each other.
Continuous Aspect Activities
Ways of combining the Present Continuous, Past Continuous and Future Continuous so that students can get a feel for the links between those three tenses.
Fun 1st Conditional Practice
Stimulating ways of practising “If + Present Simple, Will” sentences in the classroom.
Games To Practise Dates
Fun ways to practise the surprisingly tricky topic of saying years, months and days.
Adverbs Of Frequency Games
Motivating activities to practise expressions like “once a week” and “hardly ever”.
Low prep games using just pens and pencils
Ideas for classroom games that only need pens or pencils and often not even paper, as well as minimal preparation time.
15 no prep games using erasers
Erasers are a particularly great object to use in games as they are soft and safe (unlike playing with scissors!). Here are 15 of the many ways that you can use a humble rubber to practise all kinds of target language.
15 zero-preparation games with scrap paper
Sheets of paper that you would otherwise throw away can be the most adaptable resource for classroom games. This article gives 15 ideas for using whole pieces of scrap paper.
15 no-prep games with just little scraps of paper
One of the most flexible and useful resources in the classroom are bits of scrap paper.
Using Garfield’s Scary Scavenger Hunt in EFL classes
How to use Garfield’s Scary Scavenger Hunt to practise household vocabulary, prepositions of place, and imperatives.
35 Present Perfect Simple & Continuous games
An array of fun classroom games to help your students understand the difference between present perfect continuous and present perfect simple.
Picture dictionary games and activities
Successful ideas for using picture dictionaries for fun activities with your students.
Using Learn English Kids Just for Fun games in class
Learn English Kids is a great site for class or home use that is offered by the British Council for free. Much of the content is comparable in interest and quality to paid content on CD ROMs etc. If there is any problem with the site it is that the sheer amount of good material [...]
Problems, solutions and variations with hangman in EFL
Hangman is a game in which students try to guess what letters are in the word before a complete picture of their man getting hanged appears, with one element of the man and scaffold being added for each time they choose a letter that isn’t in the word. It is popular with native speaker children, [...]
Speaking games for (false) beginners
Many teachers seem to think that using games in very low level classes is almost impossible, and the lack of photocopiable materials and game ideas for students under Elementary in books and online reinforces this impression. The same is true for ideas on how to bring speaking and pairwork into a class for beginners. Not [...]
25 defining and non-defining relative clause games
1. Trivia sentence building challenge Give or brainstorm a list of things that trivia questions are often about, e.g. the Amazon, the Statue of Liberty and Einstein. Students should choose one of the things from the list and say something true about that thing or person, e.g. “The Amazon is in South America”. Their partner [...]
23 uses for pelmanism and SNAP
Pelmanism (also known as “pairs” or “the memory game”) is one of the most versatile games in TEFL and can be used for almost any grammar or vocabulary point. The game basically consists of spreading a pack of cards face down across the table and trying to find pairs of cards that match up. See [...]
32 variations on pelmanism
Pelmanism (also known as “pairs” or “the memory game”) is one of the most adaptable games in English teaching, and is just as good for adults as it is for children as young as four. Many uses for it are given in other articles on TEFL.net. Students are given a pack of cards that they [...]
Countable and uncountable noun games
1. Picture difference Students ask each other “Is there any milk?” or “Are there any sandwiches?” to find the differences in their pictures. This is best done with photocopies of drawings which have been changed with tippex and pen, but is also possible with two completely different pictures from magazines. A variation that works well [...]
Variations on the Clap Clap Clap game
This is a nice game that can be used with classes of four year olds and also anyone up to adults. The whole class claps three times and on the fourth beat the person whose turn it is must say a word in the category selected that no one has said before, without pausing too [...] |
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