Games. Learning with fun!

Learning English sound be an enjoyable activity and so, I love to play games with my students and even my younger relatives.

1. Personality Adjectives Taboo. Teens to B2 / C1     Download Game_PersonalityAdjTaboo

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The idea of this Taboo is explaining the word on top of the card without using the adjectives below. It is a different concept from the common taboo because I believe they are more receptive to increase their vocabulary when they are playing. So, by showing them synonyms, students start to remember different ways to say a word.

SECOND OPTION: After a few days of playing with them, students can play in reverse, only saying the three adjectives below the team needs to guess the Main adjective. It has had good results because when they play common taboo they read the adjectives and allow themselves to remember maybe one or two from the list, so the new adjectives become part of their back-up list of vocabulary. 

2. Blast from the Past. Speaking activity.              Download Game_ BlastfromthePast

Practice past tenses through different questions which elicit the student to answer in specific past tenses sometimes and some others just look over the grammar talking in the past.

Rules: Groups/pairs/individually. According to their level, they try to talk for a certain amount of time about their card to score a point. At the end of the game the team with more points wins :D



3. Clue. 

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Quick and helpful game to practice questions: 10 to 15 minutes. Specially for groups of 6 people -. If you have more than 6, pair then up.
When played with A2/low B1 - you can practice the dynamic questions/answer. Each student need to think of a question  when it's their turn and if someone has a card which proves them wrong, he or she shows the card ONLY to the student who have done the premise.

If I am playing with higher leves, we add could/should + present perfect. As every two rounds of questions, they need to elaborate a theory of who, with what and where.

Enjoy and have a fun learning!! 

BP