I am teaching english and we want games to play in class. what do you suggest?

Question

I'm teaching english as a foreign language. my students range from 15-17 and all they want to do is watch dvds and play games.

we played poker, uno, pictionary, taboo, boggle, crossword... im out of ideas!! please help!!! the more the merrier!!! thanks

ah by the way they are intermediate level - quite good english! i like this class a lot :)

Answer 1

Board race, shouting dictation, miming, word search, bingo, noughts and crosses, hangman, blockbusters, alibi, odd one out, chinese whispers etc etc

These websites may help:

http://www.esljunction.com/esl_games/

http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/tefl-t...

http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/esl...

http://www.lingolex.com/jstefl.htm

http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?Ga...

Answer 2

a tongue twister game. it was so funny. every students have their own sentence that can make there tongue twist and they will read it individually.

Answer 3

and we wonder why the education system is failing

Answer 4

1.Scrabble

2.Crosswords

3.Go fish

4.Pusoy dos(If you're from the Philippines you'll probably know that game)

5.Sorry(board game)

6.Monopoly

7.Chess

8.Checkers

9.Dominoes

10.The game of life

Hope that's enough!Good luck! :)

Answer 5

Well some of these are typing games but all english so hopefully some of them help and I'm 15 and so i liked some of the games on the websites so hopefully your students will like them also.

http://www.onlytypinggames.com/

http://www.2flashgames.com/learning_engl...

these 2 i found the most fun and had alot of  games on them hopefully they like them

Answer 6

You're the teacher, lady, they should be doing what you tell them to do.  You are not paid the big bucks to ask strangers how to manage your pupils.  Didn't you go to school for this?

Answer 7

fredjones.com has a p.a.t. (preferred activity time) bank on his site. fred also has wonderful clas control innovations.