ESL FUN GAMES
At ESL Kids World, we offer a variety of games for teachers and students. Students will find free online interactive games for self-study practice and teachers will find fantastic games for ESL classroom teaching.
Online Games: Interactive ESL Games
- Action Verbs - Basketball Interactive Game
- Advice Using Should - Grade or No Grade Interactive Game
- Adjectives and their Opposites - Matching Interactive Game
- Animals and their Terrain - Football Interactive Game
- Body Parts - Using how many - Duel Interactive Game
- Clothes and the body - Duel Interactive Game
- Colours and Fruits - Catapult the Teacher Interactive Game
- Comparatives and Superlatives Animals - Football Interactive Game
- Connectives - Using Until, then, but - Football Interactive Game
- Countries and Nationalities - Walk the Plank Interactive Game
- Days of the week and ordinal numbers - Multiple choice Game
- Family members - Grandma - Walk the Plank Interactive Game
- Festivals and Months of the Year - Football Interactive Game
- First conditional - Matching Interactive Game
- Food and Drink Tastes - Grade or No Grade Interactive Game
- Jobs and Places of Work - Basketball Interactive Game
- Past Tense - Multiple Choice Interactive Game
- Phrasal verbs - Grade or No Grade Interactive Game
- Planets and the Solar System - Duel Interactive Game
- Present Perfect Tense - Grade or No Grade Game
- Quantifiers 1 - Matching Interactive Game
- Quantifiers 2 - Matching Interactive Game
- School Subjects - Multiple Choice Interactive Game
- Second conditional - Matching Interactive Game
- Sports - Which sport is it? - Multiple Choice Interactive Game
- Stationery - Using can and can't Duel Interactive Game
- Third Conditional - Matching Interactive Game
- Weather - What's the weather like? - Walk the Plank Game
Game Ideas: Games for Classroom Teaching
The artistic nature of kids brains has them ready-made for games and fun activities. Our games easily appeal to young learners as they are based on real experiences in the classroom. Tested and proven to work, these games are a rich addition to your lesson plans.
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Alphabet sentence spelling
Write a sentence on the board. Use any grammar or vocabulary point and have the students spell the sentence whilst passing a ball and sat in a circle. Include a time limit depending on the length of the sentence. For example: The boy is running. This should take twenty seconds! It is a team game against the clock and the teacher. Students must spell the sentence correctly and then say the sentence as a group within the time limit to win the point. If they fail to do so the teacher wins.
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Bingo
Bingo can be used with any vocabulary point. Provide a blank Bingo sheet and have the students write or draw randomly in the boxes. When completed, the teacher or another student will call out the target vocabulary used in the game. The winner is the first student to cross out all the numbers or letters on the sheet.
Basketball Bonanza
Students will ask questions in a clockwise manner. The grammar or vocabulary point can be anything. For example: What do you do in the morning?
I have my breakfast. The first student to answer the question after the teacher says ‘begin’ gets to stand up and throw the ball into the basket. They can answer a further question to attain an extra throw of the ball, but if they are wrong they lose both these chances.
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C - Charades
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D - Dancing with Ostriches
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E - Extreme Spelling
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F - Flashcard whispers
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G - Go Fish
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H - Hangman
I - I Spy with My Little Eye -
J - Jeopardy
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K - Killer
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L - Last Letter First Letter
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M - Memory Game
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N - No, Yes, Maybe and I don’t Know
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O - On my body
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P - Pictionary
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Q - Question Jenga
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R - Reading Readiness
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S - Sticky Madness
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T - Teacher Says
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U - Under, on, in and behind
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V - Volleyball Vocabulary
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W - What’s the word?
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Y- Yes and No
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Z - Zero