Articles on Teaching English Using Games & Activities

How to use a simple set of stackable blocks to practise a wide range of different grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc including personal questions, colours, numbers, there is/ there are, countable and uncountable, prepositions of position and phonics.

Intensive classroom practice activities of superlative adjectives and related language

Error correction activities that aren't a waste of class time.

Fun classroom activities teaching students how to understand, read and write colour words from "orange" and "red" through "dark green" to "cream" and "metallic blue".

Fun practice activities for adjective opposites, verbs with opposite meanings, etc.

Interactive classroom activities for can and can't for ability, focussing on language that students really need.

Interactive classroom activities for using both present tenses together, comparing and contrasting their uses. Including speaking activities with minimal resources, ideas for worksheets, and possible uses of technology.

Interactive games for speaking practice of am/ is/ are + ing.

Games that are great practice for all three parts of the IELTS Speaking exam, either separately or together.

Mainly oral classroom practice activities for routines, habits and other meanings of the Present Simple, including describing processes.

Games for presentation, intensive practice and freer practice of useful phrases for this most difficult and critical of Business English skills.

English teaching board games without dice etc that are more fun and better at practising language than those which need such accoutrements, and with many more possible uses.

Stacking blocks and other things like plastic kitchen sets to practise numbers, basic maths, times, days of the week, months, dates, the alphabet, phonics, colours, basic questions and answers, shapes, prepositions of position, requests and offers.

Almost 100 ways to use a ball in EFL classes, plus 13 other kinds of objects you can use the same way if don't want to use a ball

Well-known and "new classic" multipurpose card games for teaching English to adults and children.

Fun classroom speaking activities for be + past participle.

Useful words and phrases for using games in the ESL classroom

Interesting activities and topics about the Middle Ages for ESL classes

How you can use Christmas songs in the classroom - Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar (and putting the grammar back into Xmas)