Modal Verbs – Connect Three Game
Aim of the Game Learners practise using modal verbs by combining them with other verbs in sensible and correct context sentences. Procedure Put the game board on the white board or a notice board where it is visible to all the learners. Tell the learners you are going to play a game of Connect Three […]
Modal Verbs – Find Someone Who
Aim of the Game The aim of the game is to complete a class survey to find classmates who can answer yes to the given statements. The first person to match a classmate to each of the given situations is the winner. Procedure Explain to the learners that they are going to complete a class […]
Money Vocabulary – Taboo Game
Aim of the Game Learners explain lexical items on the theme of money to each other without using the words that would help them do so most easily, forcing them to paraphrase or explain through context. The team that guesses the most items in a given time limit are the winners. Procedure First of all, […]
Participle Clauses – Box Game
Aim of the Game To win the opportunity to draw a line between two points on the game board and eventually to create boxes by adding reduced participle clauses to sentences. The team that ‘finishes’ the creation of a box wins that box. The team that has the most boxes at the end of the […]
Passive Voice – Play or Pass Game
Aim of the Game The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible by deciding whether sentences would be better expressed using the passive voice. Procedure Explain to learners they are going to play a game to practise using the passive in appropriate situations. Divide the class into two equal teams. […]
Phrasal Verbs – Babble Game
Aim of the Game The aim of the game is to win points by making as many correct sentences as possible using different combinations of the given language within a time limit. Procedure Explain to the learners that they are going to practise using phrasal verbs with in by playing a board game. Divide the […]
Phrasal Verbs – Domino Game
Procedure Explain to the learners that they are going to play dominoes and elicit the rules from them as far as possible. Explain that to match dominoes, learners have to match a phrasal verb to the context given on the other side of the domino. They must be able to think of a sentence including […]
Present Perfect – Prove It Game
Aim of the Game The aim of the game is to get learners to carry out a class survey, asking questions using the present perfect, to decide whether or not the given sentences are true for their class. Procedure Explain to the learners they are going to carry out a class survey to find out […]
Present Simple – Constructing Sentences with Word Cards
Aim of the Game To make complete and correct sentences. Procedure Each S gets 5 cards. SS take turns to put down one card at a time IF they have a card that combines well with what’s on the table. E.g. S1 puts down “mother”; S2 puts down “lives” If SS don’t have a card […]
Past Simple Regular Pronunciation – Room Race Game
Aim of the Game The aim of the game is for the learners to decide on the correct pronunciation of regular past simple endings and run to the corresponding wall of the classroom. The last player to reach the correct wall is out. The last player left in the game is the winner. Procedure Stick […]