Бесплатный фрагмент - ESL Games for School

DEAR READER

This book is the result of collaboration of great teachers of English from all over the world. It is a collection of 22 games for school, which were chosen for sharing with global teaching community after having been tested and proved to be really good ones by my colleagues from different countries. They are amazing teachers!

The games are divided into two groups:

1. games for beginner/elementary students

2. games for students whose level of English is intermediate.

Detailed, step-by-step instructions will help you reach your teaching goal easily and AT THE SAME TIME enjoy the lesson together with your students. You will also find downloadable materials and printouts.

Let all your lessons be a pleasure for you and your students!

Yours,

Jenny White

BEGINNER/ELEMENTARY GAMES

RING&GUESS (VOCABULARY GAME)

Khaled Darwish, Turkey

«I have been teaching English for more than 7 years to different ages and grades. Teaching is my passion. I love teaching kids and most of all love playing games with them in the classroom. For more games check out my YouTube channel.»

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtz_tfRdBVRBGzcanyH9rSA?view_as=subscriber

ABOUT THE GAME

Type: vocabulary review

Number of students: a group of 6 — 20 students

Resources: 2 bells and a piece of paper with definitions

Time: 10—20 min (depending on the number of students)

PREPARATION

Prepare the list of words you are going to revise. Every word should have a definition. Put a desk next to the board with two bells on it. Divide your students into 2 teams.

INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEDURE

Let every team choose the first player. These two students should stand against each other by the desk. In front of them there are two bells. The teacher reads a definition and the student who rings the bell first has the right to answer.

If the answer is correct, the team will get two points. If there is a mistake, the student from the other team can answer. But this time only one point will be given to the team. If your students can read, you can prepare definitions on slips of paper, put them face down on another desk and let students choose and read them for the players. Continue playing until all students have taken part in the game.

WHAT IS HE DOING? (grammar game)

Aziza Fathallah, Morocco

«I’ve been a teacher for 15 years and I really enjoy my work. I was a secondary school teacher, now I teach primary school children. I love kids and I often play games with them. „What is he doing?“ is one of my favourite games. We often play it after the warm-up to revise Present Continuous. I hope that you’ll like it too.»

ABOUT THE GAME

Type: grammar game

Number of students: a group of 10 — 25 students

Resources: pictures or slides with actions A4 pieces of paper

Time: 10—15 min (depending on the number of students)

PREPARATION

Prepare 8—10 pictures with different actions or download the PPT here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VVd9NwuE0--9OzYm-nXNlAAOhIZiyVMh/view?usp=sharing.

INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEDURE

Divide your students into 5 teams. Give every team a piece of paper. Tell your students to look at the picture and write down a sentence about it in Present Continuous. After 20 seconds the teams show their sentences about the picture to the class and read them aloud. They will get grade A if there are no mistakes, grade B if there is one mistake in grammar, spelling, or pronunciation and grade C if there are a few mistakes.

The winner is the team with the greatest number of A grades. Don’t let the same students answer every time. Ask different students to make sure they all take an active part in the game.

STREET VENDOR (vocabulary)

Pradip Deore, India

«I’ve been teaching English to elementary school level students. I believe, teaching with games is a fruitful way as it makes students happy. They learn with joy. Games also help me to achieve my teaching goals easily. You can learn more about me and my method here»

http://pradeepdeore.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_43.html?m=1

ABOUT THE GAME

Type: vocabulary review

Number of students: a group of 7—15 students

Resources: a basket, 15—20 flashcards with fruits, vegetables and flowers

Time: 15 min (5 min for preparation, 10 min for the game)

PREPARATION

Prepare 15—20 flashcards with fruits, vegetable and flowers. Revise them with your students before the game. Put all the flashcards in a basket. You can use a tray or just a big book instead of a basket.

INSTRUCTIONS

Ask all the students to stand in a circle. Choose one student to start the game. This student is a street vendor with the basket on his head.

PROCEDURE

The vendor student walks around the circle shouting «Buy roses! Buy bananas! Buy cucumbers! (the words on the flashcards) and suddenly stops in front of some student. This student should immediately say a word which belongs to the last category mentioned by the street vendor. If he or she hesitates, this student will become a street vendor.

WHERE ARE WE? (SPEAKING GAME)

Shehata Saad, Egypt

«I have been teaching English for more 20 years. I like playing games in my work because it makes my students not only happy but also motivated. Games help me to achieve my teaching goals. I want all students in the world to be educated and successful.»

ABOUT THE GAME

Type: speaking game (giving directions)

Number of students: a group of 6—10 students

Resources: map of a city, slips of paper with names of locations (bank, park etc)

Time: 10—15 min (depending on the number of students)

PREPARATION

Divide your students into 2 teams. Put slips of paper with locations on the desk face down. Put a map on the board or show a slide of it. Mark with a tick the location where the game starts. Ask one student to come out to the board.

INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEDURE

Let one player from the same team choose a piece of paper with a destination point and show it to the teammates (the other team shouldn’t see the word). They have 1 minute to explain the way from the present location marked on the map to the destination point. Students in turns, sentence by sentence, give directions to the student at the board.

The other team should listen carefully and follow the directions too. If the student at the board can’t name the destination point when the time is over, the other team can answer and win a point. Play the game until all students have been at the board. The winner is the team who gets more points.

CATCH IT IF YOU CAN

Mehrdad Ataee, Iran

«I’ve been a high school teacher for 26 years. I got interested in using games as a teaching method in 2009 in a summer school for ESL teachers in Turkey. Since then, I’ve already collected more than a hundred games that help me teach in an engaging way. You can find more games here»:

ABOUT THE GAME

Type: vocabulary review

Number of students: group of 5—12 students

Resources: a soft ball

Time: 5—7 min (depending on the number of students)

PREPARATION

Before playing the game, revise different groups of vocabulary with your students (food, sport, school subjects etc).

INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEDURE

Ask your students to make a circle and choose one student to stand in the middle. This student is the monkey. Name a category, for example FOOD. Students should toss the ball among themselves making sure that the monkey does not get it. The student who is tossing the ball should say a word that belongs to the selected category. The monkey student should try to catch the ball.

If the monkey manages to do so, the student who tossed the ball last becomes the new monkey. If a student cannot say a word that belongs to the category, he or she becomes the new monkey. Сhange the category whenever there is a new monkey.

WEATHER REPORTERS (SPEAKING)

Chien Hui Yu (Fur Yu), Taiwan