English games

6Categories

Students will beg to play this game once they get the hang of it! It’s a great way to fill up the last few minutes of class, too

Have students draw six columns on their paper and write a category at the top of each column. You can choose categories that fit what you’ve been studying in class or go with some basics. Popular categories include food, names, cities or countries, fuiture, verbs and clothing

Choose a random letter and write it on the board. Give students enough time to write down a word for each category that starts with that letter. You can repeat with new letters as many times as you like

7Letter Scramble

Take a list of words that your students have recently leaed and write a scrambled version of each on the board. Allow students to unscramble the words on their paper. The first one to finish deciphering all the words wins

 8Chalkboard Acronym

Write a word vertically on the board and then have students come up, one at a time, to write a word starting with each letter of the vertical word. For example

Cute

Under

Porcelain

Make this tougher by requiring the words to be related to the acronym

 9What Am I Thinking Of

If you’ve ever played 20 Questions, you already know how this game goes. To make it a little easier on your students, however, you’re going to include some visual clues

Pair students up and have them think of an object. Each student should write 5-10 words describing the object on a piece of paper. When you call time, the students swap papers and try to figure out what the other person described. The first team to have both words guessed correctly wins

 10Word Bingo

You’ll need to do a little preparation for this game, but it’s well worth it. Make bingo sheets with a 4×4 grid and add words to each square. Hand these out (each one should be unique) and have students mark the correct word when you call it out. The first person to finish marking their entire page wins

There are some fun variations to Word Bingo

Picture Bingo: Use pictures on the Bingo card and call out the words that relate

Synonym Bingo: Get those brains working by giving students a word that means the same thing as a word on their card

Antonym Bingo: This is just as it sounds. Call out the antonyms of words on their cards and see how many students get it

ESL vocabulary games make class time a little more exciting. You can use them to review previously leaed words, but keep in mind that games also make great rewards for when your students do well in class

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