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Team quiz games run from the teacher's screen, so students need no devices or accounts.
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ESL Classroom Games
Games for English learners. Most of the sites here are free and made to be shown to the whole class, and the no-prep games get students speaking.
Categories
A quick word game that works in any subject.
Give a category such as animals, verbs or elements, and a letter. Teams have one minute to write as many matching words as they can. Words that no other team wrote score double.
Charades
Acting out words, good for verbs and for young or beginner learners.
A student picks a word card and acts it out without speaking while the class or their team guesses. Use action verbs, animals, jobs or story characters.
Duck English
Vocabulary, grammar and phonics games made for smartboards and touchscreens, with no ads and no account. Includes a team scoreboard.
ESL Fun Online
Games alongside grammar lessons and vocabulary practice for English learners.
ESL Games Plus
Interactive games for vocabulary, grammar and sentence building, plus team games made for classroom practice and printable puzzles.
ESL Kids Games
Quick online vocabulary games for young English learners.
Games to Learn English
A small set of simple games for practicing English vocabulary and grammar.
Games4esl
Games, worksheets and lesson plans made by teachers. The games are designed to be shown to the whole class.
Hot Seat
Vocabulary review where the class does the explaining.
One student sits facing the class with their back to the board. Write a word or term on the board. The class gives clues without saying the word until the student in the hot seat guesses it. Play in two teams and time each turn to keep it moving.
LearnEnglish Kids
The British Council's games and tongue twisters for children learning English.
Pictionary
Drawing vocabulary on the board for a team to guess.
Split into two teams. One student from a team draws a word from your list on the board while their team guesses within a time limit. No letters, numbers or talking from the artist.
Wordwall
One activity can be switched between 30+ formats such as quizzes, matching games and flashcards, and printed for offline use.
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