Beginner games esl

Online Membership Download the Entire Library. ESL Answer Games. Here you will find fun ESL games to motivate your students to answer questions. These games can be used in any situation where students have to answer questions in class, e.

ESL Brainstorming Games. These ESL brainstorming games are ideal to get students working together and using English. The games can be used to brainstorm words from categories, revise vocabulary or introduce a new lexical set.

ESL Category Games. On this page, you will find energetic category games to help students learn or revise categories of words. These games help students to focus their attention on vocabulary for a given subject or topic.

These classic ESL childhood games have been specially adapted for the classroom. The games are ideal for teaching or revising a range of vocabulary and language points. ESL Counting Games. On this page, you will find entertaining ESL classroom games to help students practice or review numbers and counting. ESL Describing Games. This page contains a variety of fun ESL classroom games to help students practice describing in both spoken and written forms.

There are also fun games to help teach or revise vocabulary and practice describing and defining words. You will also find describing games to practice adjectives of appearance, personality and character. ESL Drawing Games. Bring some artistic flair to your classroom with these engaging ESL drawing games. These creative games can be used to practice or revise a variety of vocabulary and language points. These ESL drilling games help your students to practice language structures that you have recently covered in class.

The games work particularly well with question and answer forms. These fun ESL first day of class games are ideal for helping students get to know each other and making introductions. The games are designed to help new students open up and start interacting from the very first lesson.

There are games to help students introduce themselves and others, give personal information and learn one another's names. You will also find icebreaker activities to help you introduce yourself and gain insight into your students' level of English. ESL Flashcard Games. Here you will find entertaining classroom games that use flashcards.

You can use these flashcard games to teach vocabulary on a variety of topics, such as weather, food, animals, etc. Either read these topics out loud or write them on the board to be copied down.

For each round, the teacher writes one letter on the board. This can all be easily adapted. You can also choose whether to be very strict on spelling or not depending on the class level. Shiritori is a very basic game, of Japanese origin, whose brilliance lies in its simplicity. Students go up to the board.

The teacher can start by writing one word, and then the students will continue one at a time. Each word has to be followed by another one beginning with the last letter of the previous word. Example: Elephan t — T re e — E at. The game can be made more challenging as the students progress.

For example: First row, random vocabulary. Second row, only adjectives. Third row, only verbs. And so on! The rules are very simple for this game. The class is divided into two teams, each of which has to form a line. You say a different word to each group.

The students have to whisper the word to the student next to them until the last one has to say the word out loud. If a team pronounces the word correctly, they get a point. So all the students get to have a go at this, change the order of the line with each new round.

Phonics Hammer Flashcard Game — An endlessly fun way to review phonics. Memory Game Flashcard Game — Another way to turn reviewing flashcards into a fun activity! ESL Trivia Time! Good for reviewing parts of speech in a fun, silly way! I Dare You! The Question Game — You read the answer, and students must come up with the correct question!

Beginner — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords! Intermediate — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords! Grammar Shapes — A printable board game for reviewing different English tenses present, past, and future tenses.