For more ESL games and activities, click here. Racing Pairs This running game can be fun to play with young learners if you have enough space in your classroom, or an outdoor space you can use (e.g. on a summer camp). In this game, students must listen for their cue Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Text Bingo Description of activity Focus: Listening Level: Any Age: Primary – Adult Target Language: Any Time: 5 minutes+ Preparation: Need to find suitable texts Procedure: 1: Before the lesson, prepare several different texts. There must be enough for one different text per Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Lexical Mining Lexical mining is the process of extracting useful lexical chunks from a written or spoken text that students have been dealing with. The goal is that students will be able to take some of this language and use it themselves. Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Pin the Tail Join my telegram channel for teachers. Click here This classic party game can easily be used in the classroom to practice directions and develop listening, coordination and cooperation skills. Focus: Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary, Young Learners Level: Beginner Age: Kindergarden/Primary Read more…
Tagged: kids English games
Level: Beginner
Age: Kindergarden – Primary
Target language: Clothes, describing appearance, likes/dislikes, questions
Time: 5 minutes +
Preparation: None
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Pronunciation Choices This activity is based on an idea from Pronunciation Games by Mark Hancock which is a great resource for pronunciation activities. In this simple game, students have to listen to a word and decide which of two phonemes is being used. Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Duck Duck Goose Duck duck goose is a game often learned by children at pre-school or primary age. As it involves sitting in a circle and having students run around the outside, it may not be suitable for all classrooms. However, for Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Target Bingo Target bingo is one activity that can help young learners to improve their listening skills. In this version of bingo, students take turns to call out the words by throwing a ball at the words on the board. As students Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Word Grab (or Chunk Grab) Word grab is a simple game that can be adapted in a large number of ways for different students. With higher level teens and adults it requires little or no preparation. However, with young learners and lower Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Simon Says This classic children’s game practises instructions by responding with movement, therefore benefiting kinaesthetic learners through TPR (total physical response). Simon says or a similar game exists in many other languages, with many of these using the name “Simon says”. In Read more…
