Popular English Games & Activities

These popular games and activities can be used to teach English or any subject.

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The activities/games listed include: 

English Listening: 

  • Chase game, confused situations, correct the teacher, English rhymes and songs, Fox fox!, noun charades, poetry puzzle, running relay, Simon says, spud, tape recorder games, videos in the classroom

English Speaking: 

  • Celebrity interview and role-play, definition game, dodge ball, environmental chase and discussion, Guess who?, spy, karaoke, memory game, my favourite article, name game, non-stop talking, peer assignments or review, role play, round-robin story, taboo, twenty questions, vocabulary board

English Reading: 

  • Alphabet game, book character game, books open doors, book word-search, buddy books, English classics, favourite book game, mind my pair, flashcards, giant scrabble, globalization, green light, jigsaw reading, kid quiz, mad libs,  map reading, mix and match, musical books, Name that book!, proverbs and quotations, reading quest, reading timeline, scavenger hunt, story puzzle treasure hunt, story webs, three by three puzzle, treasure hunt

English Writing: 

  • Dictation game, dialogue journal, letter writing, poet tree activity, poster making, real-life experience, sentence pictionary, sentence by sentence, synonym wheel, two characters meet, What am I?, write about music, write about a picture, writing a biography 
 

 

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