The BANANA who arrives there first, WINS! (Submitted by Salvador Domingo).īang!: Materials: Small piece of paper, shoe box or coffee can. Each right answer equals a step towards the Goal Line. They will approach the Goal line as they answer each question. The teacher draws on the board a race track and each team or S will be a BANANA waiting at the Starting Line. You can work with students or split the class into small groups/teams if you have a large class. (submitted by Salvador Domingo)īanana Race: Children just love this! It is basically a QUIZ game in which you ask children questions (Target Vocabulary) like: 'What's this? What fruit is red and round? How many chairs are there in the classroom?' or the teacher simply draws items on the board, makes animal noises so that they guess. Lots of fun! (NOTE: For very active students be careful since they might hit the others' faces when playing). Decide who serves and for every winning shot the team to call out the flashcard or picture card shown by the teacher to get a point. Remember: the younger the students, the bigger the balloon must be (slower). Inflate a balloon (this will be the ball). Make two small teams (the other students can be the crowd and or challengers). Set a 'court' into the classroom by placing a skip-rope tied up to two chairs. The first S out of the two standing in front of the board to guess the word wins a point for his/her team.īadminton: Good for reviewing target vocabulary (words or communicative expressions). you can buy it in McDonalds, it's got cheese and ketchup in it). 'hamburger') and the students have to explain that word to their team member (e.g. Write a word or draw a picture on the board (e.g. Make two teams and stand one S from each team in front of the board, facing away from it. Bīacks to the Board Game: This one is good for higher level kids. They are quick to find and easy to print. Over 1,000 printable worksheets right here on ESL KidStuff.Īll worksheets are made specifically for teaching English to children. At first students will copy you but later they should be able to do the commands without you. The S with the highest score at the end is the winner.Īttention: Call out commands such as: Attention, salute, march in place.stop, sit down, stand up, walk in a circle, clap your hands.stop, run in place.stop, jumping jacks.stop, swim in place.stop, etc. For each S give a score for his/her picture, and then move on to the next picture. 'draw a man running, eating cake, sleeping') or adjectives ('draw a big elephant, an angry lion, an expensive diamond ring'). 'dog, bookcase, train', verb structures e.g. Teacher calls out a word and the students draw it (could be simple nouns e.g.

Have the students write their names above their squares. Draw enough squares on the board for each S to be able to draw in. My students love it! (Submitted by Kim.S.).Īrt Gallery: This is a great activity for reviewing vocab. It can be played with different categories, such as Food, Animals, Etc. And the game keeps going until you have one winner. If the student you threw it to drops it, he/she is out. The S then throws to another S and says a different English word. But you must say one English word as you pass. This works well as a team game.Īpple Pass: Have all students sit in a circle. Ask a S a question and if s/he answers correctly then s/he can throw and try to hit one of the target objects to win points. table 5 points, door 10 points, trash can 20 points). For the competition, assign different classroom objects points (e.g. Stand the students in a line and let them test fly their planes. (Submitted by Libby McArthur).Īirplane competition: First, have your students make some paper airplanes. To help them you can give them a list of options, if you think they need some help. The one who guesses right gets a point and mimes the next action which the teacher writes on the board. The other students have to guess the adverb. The chosen student then does the activity in the way of the adverb. The teacher then shows the S a card with an adverb written on it, such as 'slowly'. (Submitted by Gareth Thomas).Īdverb Action: Teacher writes on the board an activity like 'brush your teeth.' S/He picks one student, they come to the front of the class. First one to do it gets their team a point.

Students must jump to the chair on the other side of the room and back, sitting down in their chair students say 'I can jump'. One S from each team stands next to their chair and teacher calls an action, e.g. Have the students split into two teams and sit in lines with a chair by each team and one chair at the other end of the room. Use actions like jump, hop, clap, run etc. Action Race: This is a fun game using actions.

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