Teaching English Games
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Suzanne Said:
What are good English Language games for teaching?We Answered:
Scattergories - everyone can play at the same time. Make up categories for the unit like adjective, verb, and noun, or character, etc.Jeanette Said:
i am teaching english and we want games to play in class. what do you suggest?We Answered:
Board race, shouting dictation, miming, word search, bingo, noughts and crosses, hangman, blockbusters, alibi, odd one out, chinese whispers etc etcThese websites may help:
http://www.esljunction.com/esl_games/
http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/tefl-t…
http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/esl…
http://www.lingolex.com/jstefl.htm
http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?Ga…
Jose Said:
Anybody know a good website for downloading English teaching Games/Activities?We Answered:
Are you learning English?I think the website may help you.it is http://www.italki.com
Eleanor Said:
Can anyone recommend some great games for teaching grammar to adults in the classroom?We Answered:
Take songs and have them find mistakes in song lyrics and correct them and then sing them.Jane Said:
Games to aid teaching english...?We Answered:
Trivia............Quiz booksWhat are they really interested in? Aeroplanes, fashion, development of computers.............? Get them to do some research & make a booklet of what they find out, with pictures or drawings. The local British Council library would be helpful.
Jerry Said:
teaching English to Chinese primary school students, need educational games for 5-10 yr old?We Answered:
There's a few ideas here: http://www.oshieroo.com/ideas/tag/elemen…My students like any kind of role play, especially involving play money, e.g. restaurant/shop (supports food vocab, counting in English, and structures such as 'what do you want?' 'I want ___')
A fun way to chain drill dialogues is to pass a ball around in a circle - but then make it more challenging by adding extra balls! Once they have got the hang of that, have some balls going round in the opposite direction, have the kids sit down if they miss the ball, or other variations.
We use karuta (slap-the-card) a lot, but it can be unsafe. Using flyswatters, or having the cards face down so the kids must turn them over to find the right card, lessens the possibility of them nutting heads! Karuta with tiddlywinks can be interesting too *lol*
Snake Janken works well with my students. Line up the flashcards on the floor, and have the kids form 2 teams, one at each end. When you say go, the first child in each team touches and says the cards in turn. When they meet, they play rock, scissors, paper - the winner carries on from where they got to, the loser goes to the back of their line and the next kid starts at the beginning. Winner is the team that makes it all the way to the other side! I find with my classes it's better to play kneeling down - it slows the kids down so you can check they are actually saying the words.
Hope there's a few things to get you started!