ESL GAMES

GAME BALOON POOP: I will divide the class in two different teams and
draw in the whiteboard some balloons from different colors for each
team, also draw one rag doll for each team, and at the bottom of each
team square draw a shark.
Ask one student from each team to stand up and play paper, scissors and
stone game, the students who wins, decides who starts the game, the
game starts by the winner student throwing a dice, and the number said
on the dice is the number of gloves the student who has thrown the dice
can erase from his/her opponent.
When one of the teams loses all the balloons, they will fall dawn and the
sharks will eat them, losing the game.
GAME SIT DOWN AND SHUT
First, the teacher will write on the white bord the name of the game, and
the title of the vocabulary he/she wants to revise with the students. Ex
food, and two of the alphabet letters.
The teacher will also draw a square on the white board which represents
each student and will divide students in two different teams.
The teacher will say the students to stand up and I will ask one student
from one of the teams to tell me the name of a food, that student can sit
down and shut up for not telling any answers to the other questions that
the teacher asks to the rest of the pupils.
Later I will ask same question to a member for the other team. On a
second round I will ask the students to name a fruit that starts by a letter.
By the time all students from one team are sitting down that team will win
the game.
Bingo Pictionary Game
(Each student needs a piece of paper and a pencil or pen) and ask them to
draw on it a 4X4 grid (you teacher will also have it drawn on the
whiteboard).
We are going to draw a picture from the word we want students to revise,
(they can draw it in the square they want). Ask the student how we spell
That word, if they don’t know we can help them, when we get it, write it
dawn the picture.
By the time all students and I have completed the square, I will be having
all my flashcards from the game inside on a box, I will call one student to
pick one and say aloud what it is as in Bingo, so all of them can cross it out
from their grids, the student who is able to complete their grid first wins
the game.

Trial Pursuit (game to play with my 4th 5th 6th students)

Ask questions to students about different topics in English you think they
may know. (Sports, animals, food, films, places).
I will divide the class into four different teams, each will get its circle
square that I will label it in 5 parts and numbered it one to 5 (a number for
each of the topics)
I will choose one student to roll the dice if it appears on it a number (one
to four the team that has that numbers will start if not I will choose
randomly which teams starts.
The team that starts will be asked a question related with the first topic, if
they guess it, they will get the cheese, if not I will jump to the next team.
The team able to get all the chesses will win the game.
Sketch Artists (game for the conversation class)
The teacher will give a student a picture he/she will describe to the rest of
their classmates, the rest of the students will follow the instructions given
by their classmates, painting individually their own picture on a piece of
paper.
English Definitions (Play with the big ones)
Prepared letter flashcards, divide class into two different teams, give each
team 5 cards, give yourself another 5 cards, to show your students what
you need to do. Write on the white boards the letters you got. Tell them
that they must write a word in English that starts with the letters they
have, they can´t ask for spelling help. Later give them time for them to
write a few words that describe the words they have written.
Later ask a team to go out and read one of the definitions they have to
you the teacher, for you to guess.
If I guess it, they give me the corresponding card, if I guess it wrong, I must
give them a new card for their pile.
The team who runs out of card wins the game.

Clue game (game to play with the big ones) (6

words)
The teacher divides the students in three different teams.
Ask the first team to write down on a piece of paper a list with the jobs
they know in English, tell them that they don’t need to care about spelling
right now.
Tell the second team to do the same, but with places (Buildings they know
example restaurant).
Tell the third team to do the same but with things they have in their
homes that can be hold with one hand.
Then tell students from each team to tell you one by one a Job, a place, a
thing can be hold with your hands.
Then divide them into five different teams
Tell them to copy out the grid from the white board.
The teacher on different posits must copy out the words.
The jobs write it normal
The places write them and make a line in each
The things being hold in one hand, underline with two lines each.
The teacher gets one card from each of the piles, so he/she leaves 15
cards, then the teacher will mix the 15 cards, and give three of them to
each of the teams.
Teach them the following pattern:
We think it was the (write the person), at the (place), with the (object)
The teacher later must tick on the whiteboard the different words their
students report.

CARSONS FAVOURITE GAME:

(Use only one syllable words)
Starts the teacher by saying a target word: EX CAT. If one student can give
a proper definition of this word will get a point.
The teacher will choose a word that rhymes with the target word: EX HAT
because it rhymes with CAT.
The teacher gives their students the definition from the rhyme word, and
students must guess it.

A BIG BROWN BEAR GAME (Pronunciation and gestures): Tell students

to stand up in a circle if it’s possible or in a line, give yourself the number
one, and then the rest of student the following numbers (two, three etc.)
I will say the PATTERN: A BIG BROWN BEAR (Using some gestures),
Students will have to repeat the pattern but without using gestures.
(If one student pronounces badly the pattern has to sit down again).
A BIG BROWN BEAR
TWO TALL TURTLES
THREE THIRSTY TURKEYS
FOUR FAST FISH
FIVE FAT FROGS
SIX SMALL SKUNKS
SEVEN SMALL SNAILS
EIGHT ANGRY OCTOPUS
NINE NOISY NEWTS

AMONG US: (need color magnets for each student or use color markers,
chalks). And a dice, and poker cards.
Write all the students names on the white board with their corresponding
color pattern.
DRAW A SPACESHIP (LOCATE EACH STUDENT PATTERN ON ANY PART OF
THE SPAPACE SHIP YOU WANT)
Inside the spaceship draw six squares (1-4 2-5 ,3-6) corresponding with
three different categories and floors.
And a grid ( 8X2) : for later tick the different tasks students do correctly.
1-4 Spelling
2-5 Define
3-6 Sentence
(One person is the killer) and can way the game by killing everyone
(The students can win in two different ways by completing the tasks or
guessing who is the killer)
STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE IN TEAMS IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN EIGHT
For giving each student a role asks them to get one from your poker cards,
that they cannot allow any others to see apart from you the teacher.
Students given number 8 always will be the killer.
HOW THE GAME IS PLAY: The students are going to give turns themselves
to throw the dice if the dice is 5 move that student to the corresponding 5
zone in the spaceship. The student hast to do the corresponding action
from the floor where they have landed, with the word I´ve given.
If the student successes with the task given you tick out on the grid one
task. (When all the grid tasks are tick the team wins, and the killer loses)
If a student doesn’t get a task correctly can´t get the tick from the grid, but
also, I will introduce a magnet representing danger on the spaceship, the
killer student can´t provoke damage, so we can cross a name out from one
student who has create damage, because he/she is not the killer)
(If in one area we have two damage magnets, the spaceship will explode,
and the crew (tripulación) will die.
(SO, WE CAN HAVE THREE DIFFERENT DANGERS MAGNETS ON OUR
SPACE-SHIP BUT THEY CANNOT BE ON THE SAME FLOOR TWO OF THEM).
Students can get a damage magnet out if they answer correctly to another
task.
KILLER: Is the only person who is given a tick on the grid either he/she
answers correctly to the question or not.
In each round ask students to close their eyes and just ask the killer
student to open their eyes and decide a person to be killed.
Then tell your students that they must vote who they think that it is the
killer.
The person who is most voted is now dead and has to show its card to the
rest, if he/she is the killer fine the crew wins the game, but if that student
is not the killer, the killer has killed another person.
WHEEL FOR FORTUNE (dice and a magnet)
Divide the class in four different teams, draw a wheel on the white board
and divide it in 18 spaces, 1-2-3 1-2-3 and two bombs. If you land in a
bomb, you lose all your points.
Let students throw the dice if in the dice it says 6 move six spaces in the
wheel, then that students have to think of a letter that he/she thinks it can
be on the sentence, if they say a correct letter, they get the points from
the wheel. ex: I LOVE COOKIES (student lands on the wheel in a 2 square
and chooses the letter O, as in the sentence we have 3 O the student gets
6 points.
They get a chance to guess what the sentence is.
Write on the white board those letters that doesn´t appear on the
sentence, for letting students don’t tell it again.
The team having more points wins.

SHERLOCK (IMAGES)
Give students and image, tell them to look to it I will give them 2 minutes,
they have to remember as much as possible about that image. Later I will
make questions related with the picture.

STICKYBALL FISHING GAME (Need some sticky balls to be play)

Divide the class in two teams, tell one member from each team to come
out, they have to play the game paper, scissors and stone, the looser has
to ask a question to the class, the class has to answers.
Then the winner has to stand in a line that I draw on the floor and gets
two sticky balls, and has to throw it to the white board, and try to get a
fish, I will erase the fish that student got, and write on the white board
how many fish that teams has won.
CLAP AND CATCH (ball game)
Make a map representation from the classroom on the whiteboard.
The teacher must be in the center of the classroom, and the students
must be placed all over the classroom and separate between them with
enough distance, along the classroom wall, each time a student gets the
ball to the teacher I will move to the next student following a watch
direction.
When I through the ball to a student that student must be able to clap
firstly once and later pick it.
If they don’t do it correctly, they are eliminated, on a second round they
will have to Clapp two times.
Ask students to correctly spell a word, or name a word, or answer to a
sentence.

THE STICKY BALL PIZZA

Make a circle and divide it in the needed spaces for given one space for
each student and draw a little circle in the center with a star on it.
If one student is hitten on their name by the sticky ball on the white board
that student is eliminated, and has to do an English task, that can be name
a word in English, spell a word, or answer to a question in English.
When a student is killed, we erased its name, and the students who are
between him/her, has to play the game stone, papers scissors, the one
who losses get his line erased making the space bigger.
If any student can hit the start, they will get a little prize at the end of the
class.
ANIMAL ABILITIES GAME (DICE IS NEEDED)
Student has to think of an animal the rest of us has to make questions to
that student to guess which animal is it.
We will through a die, if the die is one, we will ask if the animal can fly, if
the die is two, we will ask If does your animal lives under water?
If its number three we will Ask Can your animal eat me/us?
If its four we will ask: Does, your animal has a tail?
Five: Can your animal be a pet
Six: Can your animal be at the zoo?

BODY GRID
DRAW A GRID ON THE WHITE BOARD, WITH an eye, a hand, mouth, brain,
and an ear.
Divide the class in two different teams, you will have two different color
markers.
One student from each team will come out with a different color marker
and has to think of a verb you do with each part of the body.

1-12 BOARD GAME

Draw a representation of how you are going to place your students
Students are in a circle, first student can decide if he/she wants to say one
number or tree numbers, second student has to say the same number of
numbers that the previous student has said, but when they get to name
the number 12 that student if he/she wants to continue the game, must
answer correctly to an English task proposed by the teacher.
KITE RACER GAME
Draw two kites on the whiteboard and divide them in four equal spaces,
and look for categories write three words that belong correctly to one
category and a four random word, one kid from each team are going to
come out facing themselves without looking to the whiteboard , then they
are going to turn around , they are going to find the word that doesn’t
match with the category , they will have to erase that word and write on
that empty space a word that fits correctly with the category , the person
finishing to write firstly , will get a point for its team .

GUESS WHO
(With professions and careers) (yes or no questions).
Do you work in group or individually?
Do you work indoors or outdoors?
Do you have to wear a uniform?
Do you get a big salary?
Do you have to study a lot to get your job?
Do you work at nights?
Do you drive?
Do you sit at a desk?
Do you have many holidays?
Do you save people /animals lives?
PERSONALITY TEXT
Separate the class into three different teams, make a grid on the white
board and make students copy it down.
I) Sheep, Tiger, Horse, Cow, Pig.
II) Dog, Cat, Rat, Chocolate, Ocean.
III) Orange, Yellow, Red, White, Green.
Tell students that they have to put numbers 1-5 from the one that it is
their favorite to the one they like less. (With the first column of words)
On the second column of words, they have to write adjectives they think
they can fit with those words.
On the third column they have to write the name of a person that reminds
them of that color.
On the first column tell your students that the first word they choose is
related with their friends, second with school, third one with family, the
fourth one with themselves, and the fifth one with money.
II)Self, Partner, enemy’s, future love life, your real life.
III) good friend, never forget, love, idol, same personality.
APPLE, ORANGE, BANANA (Team who do it better wins)
Draw a three-to-three grid on the whiteboard.
Each column receives a title, first one is English, second one sentence,
third one draw.
Each of the teams will receive a white piece of paper.
Each person of the team will receive a position A, B, C.
A Jobs mission is to listen to the word the teachers say and write it down.
B) Needs to use that word in a sentence.
C) Draw a picture

MONSTER FACES AND STOP READING

We need a die, to draw two circles from different colors on the
whiteboard.
Spread the class into two different teams.
1) Eye
2) Eye
3) Nose
4) Ear
5) Ear
6) mouth
One student from each team, has to come out, play stone paper scissors
game, the winner can through the die, they can get the part of the body
their die says.
The team obtaining all the parts of the body will win the game.
P.K BASKETBALL (FLASHCARDS)
Lay the flashcards in a line on the floor, place two students behind the line
of flashcards with a small basket in front of them , students get a ball, they
have to pass each other the ball and name out correctly the first flashcard,
to pass to the next one , they will have to keep on doing the same until
they get to the last flashcard, if they say a name of one of the flashcard
wrong they will have to sit down , and the next couple will have to start
from the beginning .

FIND SOMEONE WHO BINGO

Students must ask questions to each of their classmates, until they have a
name for each question to complete the grid, and they can shout Bingo.
Has an interesting pet. HAS A BROTHER. IS WEARING GREEN.
NAME: NAME: NAME:
Can draw and paint
well:
NAME:
FROM THE BEST TO THE WORST

Divide students in 3/ four different groups, draw a grid on the

white board with different word categories ex: films, singers,
fruit, pizza toppings, smells, shops.
(Give one or two categories to each group) and tell them to write
4 words on each category. When they ´ve finished tell them to
tell you which words they have written in each category, write
them down on the whiteboard and finally ask students that now
together they have to order them from their best one to their
worst one.

GAME FOUR CORNERS (TO PLAY WITH MY YONGER GROUPS)

One student is blind folded in the middle of the class, the other
students have to go and stand in one of the corners, then this
blind student has to shout up a number, and all students in that
number are out of the game.

AS IF (MIMIC GAME) (WITH ANIMALS)

SHAAZAM (GAME)
It is like the game rock paper scissors but with knight, wizard,
and giants. Put the students in groups and together they have to
decide what they want to be, then they have to act it out.
Wizard -beats knight; Knight- beats Giant; Giant – beats Wizards.
The count one two three one, and all the groups have to act out
what they are.
Wizards with their wand shout Shazzam, giants have to walk like
giants and say FI FA FU FA, and Knights have to say En Gard and
take out their sword.
ANIMAL ROUND UP
Ask students to think of an interesting animal, then they have to
mime that animal without using words, they have to show their
friends what animal they are, then ask students to stand next to
the wall and arrange themselves by their animal’s size.
Finally ask them which animal they are.

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS EVOLUTION

All students start being eggs if they win one round, they
evolution and become chickens having to look for other students
who are chickens, they have to act out as if they were chickens.
When chickens win, they become dinosaurs, they have to move
like dinosaurs, then when dinosaurs win, they become monkeys,
if monkeys wins they become wizards, finally on the last round
they become champions and they can act as if they were holding
a cup.

MINGLE
Play a music and let students dance, but when you stop the
music shout out the word mingle and a number imagine number
two, students must put themselves in pairs, if you shout three
make groups of three.
Play later a variation with tpr actions pattern
Number one they have to ride a bike
Number two they have to jump
Number three they have to sing
Number four they have to go swimming
Number five they have to fly
Number six they have to sit down.

SINK OR SWIM (QUESTION GAME)

Divide the class in two teams that are standing up , ask a
question to one single student from a team ( the whole team can
work together to give a proper answer, if the student gets the
answer correctly they get the chance to choose between to sing
or to swim, if they choose to sing , they can tell a member from
the opposite team to sit down and stop playing temporary , if
they choose to swim they can pick a member from their own
team who has been sunk and eliminate previously of the game,
to be back and return the game . If a student answer badly to
the question is sunk, if the whole team is sunk the other team
wins.

Play the game May I have a Pizza

Sit all your students in a circle, ask one student to get to the
middle of the circle being blind folded, the rest of the students
pass the flashcard singing May I have a pizza please and they
have to pass the flashcard, until the teachers alarm stops.
At that time the blind folded student can see again and has to
find out which student has the flashcard behind, by asking May I
have a pizza, the students have to answer yes you can or not you
can’t, if they say you can, is because it is the student who is
hiding the flashcard.
Do more rounds with other food items.

PLAY THE GAME WHATS MISSING?

Put all the flashcards on the whiteboard tell students to tell you
the name of all of them, then ask students to close their eyes,
and remove one of the flashcards, and ask student the question,
what is missing?

FLASHCARDS GROUPS
Divide the class into groups of three, each group has to have 3-5
members, assign each group a flashcard, give a group an
instruction to follow.
Touch your nose tigers.
Wave your hands Zebra
Put your hands on your head monkeys.
Open your mouths crocodiles.
Stamp your feeds Pandas
Give one hop / jump Kangaroos.
Snakes show your tongue.
Bears stand up.
Lions’ roars.
Giraffes touch your necks.
Cows put your horns
Birds open your wings
Elephants move their trunks
Penguins walk like penguins
Seals pass the ball with your nose
Octopus shake your body.
Shark put your fin
Cats touch your eyes

Dogs imitate a dog doing its needs.

Hens’ coco sound
HANDS ON HEADS
Divide the class into two different teams, the team on the left
side of the classroom, assign them three or more flashcards, the
team on the other side of the classroom, assign three or more
flashcards, children respond by listening the words from their
team and put their hands on their head when they heard them.
FLASHCARD CHAIN
Say students to sit down in a circle with you, give the flashcard to
the student who is sitting in your left and ask Do you like zebras?
the student has to answer yes, I do, or No I don’t.
Then the student passes the flashcard to the person that is sitting
next to him/her and asks the same question that her classmate
has to answer using the same grammar pattern.

ALTERNATIVES TO SIMON SAYS

ONE TWO THREE FOLLOW ME
Before starting the game, explain your students with the
gestures what is up, down, right, and left.
Then tell your students that we are going to play a game call one
to three let’s follow me, and that they have to choose one of the
previous gestures quickly and do it, I am going to do it also, and if
yours is same as mine you’re out.

THE ISLAND GAME

Things needed: Flashcards, few questions, and a newspaper.
First divide your class in different teams, each team has two
students, ask students to stand on the paper, ask them a
question or what’s on the flashcards, the first team to answer
well is safe, the team who is slowly in answering they will have to
fold their paper into a half, whenever a team puts a feed out
from their island they are out.

POPCORN WARM UP ( tpr with a song)

Popcorn, pop corn
Sizzling in the pan.
Shake it up shake it up.
Bum, Bam, Bam.
Popcorn pop corn
Now is getting hot.
Shake it up, shake it up.
Popcorn, Popcorn.

THE BUZZER GAME

Divide Students in two different groups have two piles of
flashcards one with letters and other with flashcards.
Explain the students that one member of each team has to come
out, you are going to shout a letter, they have to go to their pile
of flashcards, and find a word that starts with that letter, go and
touch the buzzer and name out the word. The first student to do
so and correctly wins.
MEMORY TRAIN
Place some flashcards face down, a student gets a card, and
makes a sentence using the word from the flashcard. The next
student has to remember what flashcard his/her classmate
picked up and the sentence that he/she has said, then the
student has to do the same but with a new flashcard.

LEVEL UP GAME
Tell students that for corners of the classroom are four different
levels, and they all will start at level 1, there they will meet
another student from their team, and have to maintain together
a little dialogue, then they will have to play the game stone,
paper scissors, the winner will move to level 2 and the looser
must stay in level 1.
Keep on like this and after 8 minutes stop the game, students get
1 point if they are in the first level, 2 in the second level, 3…
Those students that get more points win the game.

PUT A FINGER OUT IF

Tell students that must hold up their 5 fingers, and that these are
the lives they have, read them a sentence, and if the sentence
says something about them, they have to put a finger down, last
person putting all the fingers down wins the game.
Put your finger down if you have called a teacher mum.
You have ever lied about being sick.
You have ever walked into a lamppost (chocarse contra una
farola)
You have ever copied on an exam.
You have ever cried in a movie.
You have ever dropped your mobile phone to the toilet.
You have ever used someone else toothbrush.
You have ever laugh and drink come out of your nose
You have ever fart in class.
You have ever talk to an animal.
You have ever read someone diary.
You have ever run out of toilet paper in the restroom.
You have ever picked your nose and eaten it.
You have ever shared someone else secret.
You have ever gone to bed without brushing your teeth.
You have ever fallen backward off your chair.
You have ever eaten dessert before dinner.

TOP 5 QUIZ FOOD

Read the question and write down one answer.
If your answer is in the top 5 answers you get a point. (Most
repeat it)
1)Name a kind of meat.
2) Name a sweet or dessert.
3) Name a Mexican food.
4) Name a dish which have cheese.
5) Name a yellow fruit.
6) Name a kind of fast food.
7)Name a kind of pasta.
8)Name a vegetable.
10) Name a food people eat at breakfast.
(2 points for the 5th most repeated)
(3 points for the 4th most repeated)
(5 points for the 3rd most repeated)
(7 points for the 2nd most repeated)
(10 points for the most repeated in first place).

THREE PHASE CHARADES

Each student has to write an English word in 5 slips papers. (Tell
students that it has to be something that all of us seems to
know). When they finish ask them to put it inside a recipient you
are going to have.
Then divide the students in two different teams.
Then they will play Charades in three different faces.
One member of the group gets one minute to explain a slip piece
of paper from the recipient (in that minute they can get and
guess as many as they can until the time is up), after one minute
will be the next team turn. Then the whole team has to count
how many slips they have correct.
Return all the slips inside the recipient.
Then another member of the team has to come out and try to
explain as many slips cards as possible to the rest of their mates
but just using one word, in one minute, if the student uses more
than one word, the slip doesn’t count.
Third phase they must explain the words by miming.
At the end of the team add all the points from both teams they
have get in total from the three different phases, and the team
with more points wins.

VOCABULAY COWBOY DUEL

Ask two students to come out and be place in front of the class,
put them a flashcard on their backs, at the time of three one,
two, three and turn , Now they have to spin around and show
their flashcard to their opponent , the first one who shout out
correctly the flashcard , wins the duel , looser has to fall down as
if he/she has died .
The winner gets a point for his/her team, the team with more
points wins.

GROUP STORYTELLING
There was an old lady, living in a house in the forest with her
granddaughter.
Split the class in groups of 4 students, each group has to describe
part of the story.
A) First group has to describe the old lady. (How does she look
like, what does she do)
B) Describe the house
c) Describe the forest (is it big, are there flowers or animals, is it
dark, etc.)
D) describe the granddaughter (Name, what does she looks like,
what is she doing in her grandmother’s house).
Then they have to continue the story, starting with then one day
a man knocked into the house.
Students with their groups has to write their own story
continuation in (3-7 lines)
Finally, they have to go and tell their stories to the other groups.
HOTSEAT
Place students in two different teams and put a chair for each
team in front of the class, facing the students, these chairs are
the hot seats, write some words on the white board, that the
teams have to explained to the students sitting on the hot seats,
that have to guess what the word is, we can give same words for
the teams or give them different words.
The team which answers first get the point.

TWO TRUES AND A LIE

Ask each student to write three things about themselves, two
have to be true and one has to be a lie, split them into groups so
they can practice with their friends, tell students that they must
ask questions to their classmates to try to guess the lie question.

ALIBI
Tell student that a crime was committed yesterday, and they
want to find a group of students that make responsible.
Divide students in groups of four members, and one investigator
per group, tell students to write about a situation before the
crime was committed, where they were, what they were doing,
with who they were.
When they finished each of the investigators, will asked them
questions, and they can give them a score to see how much they
believed them.
They will have to ask all the groups and conclude accusing one of
them of having committed the crime.

SECRET ZOMBIE
Have small zips of paper, write inside them or z for zombie or H
for human, the students have to go and have a conversation with
someone, they will go around and have a normal conversation,
what did you do last weekend, what do you do at your free time,
what is your favorite food. While they are talking, they should
shake hands, during the conversation the zombies have to grab
secretly the other students’ hands.
If they do this that person is a zombie, if the other student
doesn’t discover that person is a zombie before being grasp, the
other student become a zombie.
If you accused a person of being a zombie, and it is not you are
dead.
YES, NO STAND UP
Tell students that answering yes means stand up, and answering
no means sit down, next ask students a few simple questions.
Finally ask stronger students to come up and ask questions to
their classmates.

SCATTERGORIES
Put a simple table on the whiteboard, with a different category in
each column, ex (fruits, animals, cities, clothe, sports). Randomly
think for an alphabet letter, now withing a time limit, groups or
pairs students must identify a word for each of the categories,
the first group to correctly do show wins.

HEDBANGS GAME (USE STIKY NOTES INSTEAD OF HEADBANGS)

Stick one of the notes on a student’s head without allowing her
to look at the word, the student has to figure out what the word
on her/his forehead is by asking their peers for clues.

VOCAB RACE
Split the class into two different teams, ask them to make two
different lines, the teacher has a pile of flashcards, show the first
flash cards to the first students of each team, first student
answering gets a point for their team.
TRAINWREK
Have all your students sitting in a circle except one student, that
has to be in the middle, they all have to say something true
about themselves, if someone else has done the same action
than the others have to go and change places, if someone cannot
come with an idea, can say train wreck and everyone has to
change places.

GUNS BOMBS AND ANGELS

Divide students into three different teams.
Draw 20 boxes on the whiteboard and numbered them, inside
each box there is going to be a gun, a bomb, or an angel.
Angel, you can earn a life for your team.
Bomb you lose a life.
Gun you can take a life from a different team.
Team, one gets the chance to get a box, they say 5, you give
them a question, they have a minute to deliberate they have to
come up with an answer, if it is correct let them see what it is
inside their box, before the game has started write in slips of
paper G, B, A one from each of the boxes.

MIME THE PICTURE GAME (FLASHCARDS)

GUESS THE MIME
One student does an action the student next to them asks,
What is he/she doing? The students who guess correctly gets a
point.

WATERMELON
A description game , divide the class into different teams , have
with you a pile of flashcards , ask one student from each team
and get one of the flashcards or slip words papers , tell them that
they have to describe the word to the members of the team , but
they can´t say the name of the word instead of saying they have
to use the Word WATERMELON , the first team to guess the
word correctly that their team mate has gets a point .

FLASHCARD GAMES FOR THE VERY LITTLE

Give each student a flashcard with the images from the
vocabulary they are studying, say one of the words appearing on
the flashcards and tell the students that when they hear the
word they have on their image, they have to give one step
forwards.
Place all the flashcards on the floor, divide students into two
different teams, and call one student from each of the groups to
come out, with a plastic flyswatter tell them that they have to
touch the flashcard image you tell them.
GUESS WHAT GAME
To play this game we will need the flashcards with the
vocabulary we want our student to work with and a die.
Divide the class into two groups, each student has to get a
flashcard word, but don’t show it to the rest of the students.
The rest of the class has to guess the word.
The student roll the dice , if the dice is one or two they have to
mime the word , with a three they have to make noises, if they
get a four they have to draw on the whiteboard, five explain the
word without using the word instead they say watermelon, if
they get a six they can choose the form they want to use for
explaining the word to the rest of their classmates.

INDEX CARD TOWERS

Give small pieces of paper to each group of four students, tell
them that with they have to write a tower, the way they want,
and that they have to write in each piece of paper something
that they all have in common.

THIS OR THAT
Divide the classroom into two different sides, all students must
start in the middle of the room, tell them question choice , and
tell them that they have to move to the side of the room of their
answer.
ANIMAL MIME GAME
The teacher says an animal the students have to act like that
animal, then the teacher says a number the students have to
make groups of that number.

CROSS THE RIVER GAME

Have all the vocabulary flashcards laying on the floor, divide the
students into two different teams. One member of the first team
has to go out to the starting line and put the part of the body on
the corresponding flashcard that the other teams tell them to do.
EX: Juan put your right hand on tiger.
We will have a target from the game twister with the different
part of the body and body actions.

I WANT TO
Put images on the white board with different things students
may like to do on their free time or to visit.
And write the sentence I want to.
Give each student one piece of paper, ask them to write their
own wanting examples related with the images, without writing
their names, once they finish, they have to scroll the papers and
throw them around the classroom, then each student have to
pick one of the scroll ball papers read them and try to guess who
of this classmate wants to do those things.
MISTIGREEN
Have a pile of flashcard with two pairs of different things objects
from the same color, ex: a red bird, a red table. Their will also be
one leprechaun flashcard that can´t be match.
Shuffle them and give the same number to each student,
students have to match making all their flashcards, to do so in
each round they will get the chance to still a flashcard from the
person they have next to.
The student that runs first out of flashcards because he/she can
match all their pile, wins.

DRAW ON MY BACK
First thing say your students to tell you some words they know in
English, you have to write them down in the whiteboard.
Afterwards divide the class into two different teams, asked two
members of each team to come out, one of them has to draw on
the back of his/her classmate one of the words from the
whiteboard. First student that guesses what has his/her
classmate draw on their back gets a point for their team.
WHATS THE WEATHER MISSIS WITCH?
Have a pile of flashcards with images related with the weather
words,
Says students to stand up, they have to ask you the question:
What’s the weather missis witch?
When you take the flashcard of Sunny (they can dance)
When is windy they can spin.
When is rainy they can jump in the puddles.
Snowy they can go skiing.
When it is raining it is the moment where the witch runs after
the kids, catch one of them so that kid becomes the witch and
the teacher or the witch become a students, and joins the group
of students and do the actions with them.