Ideas, tips, and tools for language teachers around the world. Back Topics. Grammar tips Teaching tips Life as a teacher. Why play? Pictionary, charades, and celebrity heads Always classic, these games are super versatile, let students practice specific vocabulary and expressions, and have the added bonus of encouraging a gleeful sort of atmosphere.
Twenty objects Put 20 objects on a table and give students a minute to memorize them. Tongue twisters Tongue twisters are great for lightening the mood, as an ice-breaker, or way to begin each class. A twist on Twister Put a twist on Twister by hiding colored discs with words, phrases, expressions, and target language written on them. Dictionary Upper intermediate to advanced students will get a kick out of inventing definitions for uncommon words found at random in a dictionary.
Want more free resources? Download yours here. Share this article. Latest articles from Teaching tips. Similarly, Robin Nahhas says her third-grade students have loved playing Multiplication Tic-Tac-Toe , a downloadable game she created on Google Slides so that they could practice their multiplication facts. Then, she pairs up students and places them in breakout rooms on Zoom. To play again, they move their pieces back to the side of the board. During morning meetings, fifth-grade teacher Sarah Wood says she incorporates games like scavenger hunts that the whole class can play together while learning from home.
When they find the object, they can share it on video or by typing in the chat box. Wood has even focused the game around particular learning goals, like having students find objects that reinforce vocabulary or putting together a project with the items.
Once, they were asked to find a broom, a blanket, and a few heavy objects, and then they had 10 minutes to build a reading fort. Until then, it seems like TikTok users are still finding videos to take up their free time.
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The police are in charge of rounding up the thieves by catching them. However, all is not lost as they can still be rescued: provided fellow thieves risk their safety in trying to rescue them by tapping them.
Photo credit: quinn. Ever reminisced about those t-shaped boxes drawn in the ground or formed with coloured tape on concrete?
Hopscotch was a clear favourite back in the day and was a more laid back game as compared to the more active, running ones. Simply toss a beanbag or any small object into each box and hop on over to the box to pick it up while maintaining your overall balance on one leg. Using a large bunch of rubber bands that have been joined together into a long chain, players have to jump over the rubber band rope.
Think of Zero Point as an adaptation of limbo, with the modification of having to go under, rather than over. With each successful jump, the difficulty is raised as the rope is raised higher until players are unable to cross it. Photo credit: capn madd matt via VisualHunt.
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