game ideas for the classroom

Game Ideas for the Classroom. Language teaching games for All ages. Using Games in Education for Language Learners for all levels and Languages.

Game Ideas for the Classroom


Game Ideas for the Classroom. Language teaching games for Young Learners, Teenagers and Adults.

Using Games in Education for Language Learners to teach Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking For all Languages Learners.

These games will help you get rid of the routine teaching time, warm up the students before the lesson, give students a break from the usual curriculum, use the time effectively when there is a little time left to kill, to assess and summarize at the end of the teaching and last but not least, to make your classes more interesting for your students as games make learning more fun and fast.

You can use these games for testing and teaching vocabulary, practicing conversation, learn tenses, improve syntax, making reading more fun, listening attentively and so forth. It is no doubt that when teachers use games where the students are active and responsible learners, the classes are sure to be more fun, active, energetic and challenging which fosters learning.

Games encourage many different skills; speaking and listening, problem-solving, as well as motor skills. Playing games together is also a great time for connecting with your students.


You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once

~

Czech proverb

Game Ideas for the Classroom

Here are different kinds of games that work well for teaching languages to children, young adults, teenagers and adults for all levels and languages.

BOARD RACE

CALL MY BLUFF

MEMORY GAME

WORD JUMBLE RACE

DOBBLE

PICTIONARY

FRUIT SALAD

Time: 10 minutes
Age: All ages
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Materials: Fruit names prepared beforehand.
Language Area & Skill Level: Speaking, Listening, Vocabulary

Description
This game could be used for teaching fruits to a beginner class or as a warm up before a class. The students sit in circle and one person in the middle stands at the beginning of the game. Fruit names are prepared on piece of paper according to the number of the students so that every four or five students get the same fruit on the pieces of paper on which there are names of the fruits. These pieces of fruit names put in a bowl or hat and each student draws a fruit name or the students who sit in a circle are given the names of the fruits by the teacher so that the same fruit names do not go to the same people sitting next to one another. For instance, if the class has twenty students five fruit names can be written on equal number of papers – four slips for each fruit. The student in the middle will try to get a seat, so he/she will shout out one, two, three or four fruit names at the same time and the students who have that fruit or those fruit names will have to stand up and change their seats. The student in the middle can also shout out ‘Fruit Salad’, therefore making everybody stand up and change their seats. The rule in the activity is that everyone whose fruit name is uttered has to stand up and sit on another chair and meanwhile, the person in the middle will try to catch a chair; therefore another person will be in the middle.
You can use of course use other topics to revise vocabulary, such as animals (you can say Zoo) or furniture (you can say house).

HOT SEAT

WHERE SHALL I GO?

WHAT’S MY PROBLEM?

WHO AM I?

HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?

BINGO

DOMINOES

TONGUE TWISTERS

YOU HAVE A POST!

Here are some energisers for the classroom for all ages and levels.

MY CHAIR

HI! MY NAME IS …

SPIDER NET

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