Esl grammar games for beginners

If the speaker is correct, the speaker takes all the counters on 'The speaker is right' paper. If the challenger is correct, the challenger takes all the counters on 'The challenger is right' paper. The teacher withdraws the counters on the other paper from the game. If the challenger is right, they must attempt to correct the speaker's grammar mistake. If the challenger does this successfully, they take one more counter from the speaker.

If the correction is wrong, the challenger gives the speaker one counter. The speaker then resumes talking about the topic until the time limit is up. If there is a second challenge, the process is repeated. When the time limit has been reached, the next student is given a topic to talk about by the person on their right and so on. If a student runs out of counters, they are out of the game. The student with the most counters at the end of the game wins.

Verb Races. Here is a fun grammar game for practicing or reviewing verb conjugations. Divide the students into equal teams of seven. Equal teams of five or six are also possible. Have each team sit in a line facing the board. Assign every student in each team with a subject pronoun. For example, the first student in each line is 'I'. The second student is 'you', etc. Give the first student in each line a piece of paper. Pick a present tense and a verb, e.

The first student conjugates the verb using their subject pronoun and writes it on the paper, e. I run. The student then passes the paper to the student behind them. The second student writes their verb conjugation e. You run and passes the paper to the person behind them and so on down the line. When the student at the end of the line has written on the paper, the student runs to the board to write all the answers up for everyone to see. The first team to correctly write all the verb conjugations on the board in the right order scores a point, e.

I run, You run, He runs, She runs, They run, etc. The student at the back of each line then moves to the front and everyone else moves back one place, changing to a different subject pronoun as they go. The game is then repeated with a different tense and verb, and so on. Get the Entire Teach-This. You say a different word to each group. The students have to whisper the word to the student next to them until the last one has to say the word out loud.

If a team pronounces the word correctly, they get a point. So all the students get to have a go at this, change the order of the line with each new round. To make the game more challenging, you could write the word down on a piece of paper rather than saying it. A piece of vocabulary you had mentioned earlier in class would be perfect for this, as would words that follow a pronunciation pattern you may have taught in class, such as words ending in -ed.

Students love this! This game is great for smaller groups but can be adapted to a larger classroom. It can also be very, very entertaining for the teacher who, aside from corrections and the odd question pointed their way, is largely a spectator.

Rather than having any drinks involved though, for very obvious reasons, each card ultimately results in a student having to answer a question. Each student has to write down five questions on a piece of paper, cut them up so each question is on a separate piece, then fold the pieces up or scrunch them into balls. The questions are all put in the middle of the ring of cards. The rule assigned to each card will ultimately determine who has to answer a question.

Below is an example of the rules that you can assign to cards. You can also have students come up with some even sillier rules of their own. King: Ask anyone. The student who gets a King picks a question out of the pile and asks it to anyone of their choosing. The student who picks out a 10 has to grab a question from the pile and ask the teacher. All of the students have to put their hands to their heads in the shape of bunny ears.

The last to do so answers a question. Intermediate — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords! Grammar Shapes — A printable board game for reviewing different English tenses present, past, and future tenses.

The Bubble Game parts of speech — A printable board game for reviewing different parts of speech nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Phonics Flags short vowels — A printable board game for reviewing words with short vowel sounds. Phonics Flags long vowels — A printable board game for reviewing words with long vowel sounds.

Phonics Flags consonant blends — A printable board game for reviewing words with consonant blends. Advanced: Weather — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords! Advanced: Jobs — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords! Advanced: Sports — Students must get classmates to guess a word without saying the banned keywords!