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Ordering products on the phone- line by line disappearing text
A fun memory game to help memorise typical phrases for making orders by telephone, including useful language for starting calls, checking/ clarifying, and ending calls.
Ordinal Numbers Competitions
Competitive practice of first, second, third, etc, including guessing games, races, personalised speaking, and getting to know their classmates.
Ordinal numbers drawing games
Fun drawing games to practise "first" to "thirtieth" and simple nouns and adjectives.
Ordinal Numbers Practice
Using first, second, third, fourth, etc to say which one from lists of vocabulary is different, including lots of different useful language.
Ordinal Numbers- Flashcard Memory Games
Practising first, second, third, etc with a vocabulary memory game, including lots of useful vocabulary.
Ordinal Numbers- Spelling Games
Six fun variations on hangman to help practise first, second, third, etc, spelling, and pronouncing the alphabet.
Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives Drawing Game
Students practise my, your, his, her and maybe to say what they add to pictures, then use the pictures to describe routines with I, you, he, she and maybe it.
Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives Memory Games
Students memorise useful model texts with I/ my, you/ your, he/ his, she/ her, we/ our and they/ their with a disappearing text game, then test each other in other fun ways.
Pick and Act- Imperatives Card Game
Fun TPR verb and don't + verb practice for giving instructions/ commands/ orders, with students following instructions their classmates make from cards about what to do or not do around the class.
Positive and negative question tags
Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.
Possessive Adjectives Drawing Game
Students pick and draw objects with your, my, his and her to go with pictures of themselves and their classmates, including the option of silly things for other people.
Possessive Adjectives- Brainstorming
Three different coming up with many sentences with my, your, his and her sentences games, including personalised speaking and drawing.
Possessive S Halloween drawing games
Two fun games with students drawing a witch's nose, a zombie's legs, etc, with lots of common Halloween vocabulary.
Possessives- Drawing Game
Two fun drawing and guessing games for possessive S and my/ your/ his/ her, suitable also for young and/ or low level learners.
Preposition Dice Games
Lots of fun dice games to practise prepositions of location, with versions that are also good for number word recognition, and an extension where students make up their own similar games.
Prepositions of Position- Making Sentences TPR Game
Students put cards together to make actions with prepositions of location that their partners should do, including fun combinations like "Put your sock in front of your nose"
Prepositions of Position- Miming Games
Two fun students miming actions with particular positions games, including racing to do the right thing in the right place, and guessing what and where the other person's action is.
Prepositions of Position- Mix and Match
Students make silly and sensible sentences from cards with prepositions of location
Prepositions of Position- Things in Common
Students find positions that they share with their partner like having things in the same places in their house, good for prepositions of location and GTKY/ classroom dynamics.
Prepositions Stacking Game
Students make and follow instructions for how to stack things for fun active sit-down prepositions of location practice.
Present Continuous and Prepositions Drawing Dice Game
Fun Present Progressive and prepositions of location practice by rolling a dice and drawing what comes up in the table, including funny combinations like "I'm walking under a red house".
Present Continuous Christmas mix and match
Making funny and sensible descriptions of Xmas actions with cards games, with easier and more challenging variations.
Present Continuous collaborative drawing
Students make and draw Present Progressive sentences to make funny pictures, with optional common verbs, names of animals, names of places, and prepositions
Present Continuous- Actions in Different Places
Three fun practice games for names of places and Present Progressive, with a guessing game and two drawing games.
Present Progressive and Prepositions of Place- Mix and Match
Funny and sensible prepositions of position and Present Continuous matching activities.
Present Progressive and Simple- Jobs Miming
Easy and fun practice of Present Simple and Continuous through actions to represent jobs, including useful jobs vocabulary and actions at work vocabulary.
Present Progressive- Clothes Drawing Game
Clothes vocabulary and Present Continuous practice through constructing sentences and drawing them, including funny combinations like "The snowman is wearing an orange swimsuit", and optional blank cards.
Present Progressive- Small Talk
Present Continuous in normal everyday chat review for practice of realistic situations like talking to classmates and meeting foreign visitors, including contrasting present and future meanings, and Present Simple and Continuous.
Present Simple (Adverbs of Frequency) Completion Game
Present Simple with adverbs of frequency guessing game
Present Simple Chain Stories
A fun creative Present Simple speaking activity based on Consequences in which students take turns continuing a story of a typical day by completing the suggested sentences then folding the page, then compare how sensible or silly their stories are.
Present Simple Job Interview Roleplay Game
Students try to find out what good or bad aspects their partner has on their roleplay card, all written with Present Simple for routines/ habits and general facts.
Present Simple Matchmakers Game
Students ask Present Simple questions to find out which of three jobs or countries most match their partner, possible with yes/ no and/ or wh- questions.
Present Simple Men and Women Guessing
Completing Present Simple sentences about different cultures with man, woman, men or women
Present Simple Needs Analysis, Presentation and Practice
Students find out about each other and their language study needs with Present Simple questions, good for a first lesson and GTKY.
Present Simple Routines Information Gap
Students use Present Simple to try to find similarities between the routines of the people described on their worksheets, with optional Present Simple suggested questions and clues to help.
Present Simple Sentence Completion Bluff
Students complete typical Present Simple sentences with a mix of true and made-up information, then try to guess which of their partner's sentences are true, including typical key words with Present Simple.
Present Simple Taboo Questions Game
Students classify, ask, answer and write Present Simple questions which are and aren't suitable for everyday conversation, then discuss what topics are generally good and bad.
Present Simple- Ask and Tell Game
A fun Present Simple personal questions coin game based on truth or dare in which students might have to answer their own questions, with useful language for talking about routines and Present Simple question stems.
Present Simple- Guess Who Game
Guessing which of six people your partner chose by asking easy Present Simple questions about their family, appearance, habits, etc.
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