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Games and Ideas for ESL Kids Classes
Are you running out of ideas for teaching your kids? Here are tips for ESL games and activities that if well executed, will bring some great results. They have been used by many teachers with great results. Start here.
Speaking,Pronunciation & Listening Games
- Hot-seat : A lifetime favorite for most language teachers, this game has long been the cornerstone of most ESL classroom speaking activities and games. It is quite easy to play yet it gets a lot of language out of students if well thought out. How to Play
- Freeze!or Stop! Ball Game: This game can practice any language point and it is very easy to set up. How to play. Read more...
- Hop and Say + Rocks, Paper & Scissors : Perfect and exciting game with cards lined up on the floor. Learn how to play
- Talking Volleyball: A high-energy game; talking volleyball will practice vocabulary and simple sentences in a communicative way. How to play. Read more...
- Dice Game : A great communicative game to practice almost any language skill, by rolling the dice. Read more on how to play>>>
- Word Association Game: Communicative vocabulary Game by using flash cards Read More on How to Play >>>
- Number Game: This is a listening game usually used as a warmer using numbers. Read more>>>
- Mallet Mallet: A fun game for practicing vocabulary and sentences. How to play.
- Chinese whispers: A fun game for listening and getting correct pronunciation of words. How to play.
- Miming games: Excellent game for eliciting description of actions and adjectives.How to play
- Fly swatting: A vocabulary practice game with speaking and pronunciation practice. How to play. Read more...
- Guessing Game : With this game cards are stuck behind a student's back and he/she asks questions to guess. How to Play>>>
- Swap Seats: This seat swapping game gets kids very excited. Kids sit in a circle. Prepare some word or phrase cards and put the up side down in the middle of the circle. How to play>>>
- Musical chairs: How to play- Bring some nice kids music to class. Put chairs in circle and make it short by one chair. Students listen to music and when you stop it they sit down. The one person who remains standing answers a few questions. Game continues.
- What's this? : A Vocabulary guessing game with flashcards - How to play
 ESLTOWER.COM : Many Free English Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises for Teachers and Students
Reading, writing/spelling games
- Running Dictation: Skills: Reading, writing ;
Requirements: pen and paper and text excerpts. How to play.
- Running Dictation for Large classes and Young Learners' Classes- This is excellent for beginners to elementary levels. Also adapted for large classes
- I spy something… Skills- Vocabulary, speaking, reading and listening How to play
- Memory or Concentration game : Great game for many language skills practice .Skills: Ideal for teaching words that have a close relationship. How to play- Sample
- Spelling relay: Skills: Spelling and reading of words. How to play.
- Word searching games: Reading and spelling game. How to play
- Mallet Mallet for spelling. How to play. This is a variation of Mallet Mallet described above. But this time students take turns spelling a word.
- Chopstick relay : This is a variation of Spelling relay but this time using chopsticks and alphabet cards.
- Spelling Bee: Teacher says a word and student spells. Any mistake not allowed.
Tips: To make games really work for your classes always try to identify the language skills you want to practice or teach. Games for game sake will soon make you look like a time waster. We have divided these games below according to the four language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Note that some games practice more than one language skill. Most often listening and speaking go well together, while reading and writing make good combinations. We have also put some games under sub-categories like: pronunciation games, grammar games etc.
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