You can purchase official Bananagrams tiles online, but you can also find printables to make your own or use Scrabble tiles. Another classic game, Pictionary, helps students attach meaning to words that might be unfamiliar to them. Divide students into two teams or groups, then give each student a pad of paper or a whiteboard with a marker.
Have one student stand at the front of the room and draw a word you show them. While they draw, the team has to guess the word. If they guess correctly, their team gets a point! Inspire a little competition with a classwide spelling bee.
Using your list of vocabulary words, give the first person an opportunity to spell the word. If they need it, give them the definition or use it in a sentence.
If the student is correct, they get to stay standing and move on to the next round. The student left standing at the end is the winner. Keep students engaged and active during reading comprehension lessons with a summer-inspired activity. As students catch the ball, they have to answer the question their fingers land on.
As a class or in small groups, divide into two teams. Invite the first student up to the front of the room. Give them a word or phrase they can act out in front of their team without speaking. If the team guesses correctly in the allotted time, they get a point!
These active games are great for getting out extra energy, taking brain breaks or even indoor recess activities. Send intrepid explorers on a mission to find hidden treasures! For an interactive learning experience, create a scavenger hunt that challenges students to find or collect:.
Sometimes you just need to dance it out. For a quick brain break, put on some fun music and encourage your students to stand up and dance away — the sillier the better. When the music pauses, they have to freeze in place. Any student who unfreezes before the music starts again is out! GoNoodle is a tried-and-true favorite of many teachers. Colorful videos and engaging activities promote social emotional skills , active living and academic success!
Not only does yoga help students stretch out the wiggles in their body, it can also help cultivate mindfulness! Lead your class through some easy stretches as a fun mid-day break or to get them energized first thing in the morning.
Based on the game show, Minute to Win It games challenge the whole class to complete simple or not-so-simple tasks in under a minute. These interactive games help promote a little healthy competition in your classroom and provide hours of fun. Set up a couple different stations and divide the class into small groups. Rotate groups through each activity so the whole class gets a chance to participate. Want to inspire some classroom unity and get students to work as a team?
These games encourage students to put their heads together and solve problems. If you have a new class or a group of students who need to get to know each other, icebreaker activities can help:. Short and easy, icebreaker games are a fun way for students to introduce themselves. Ideas include:. Turn your classroom into the set of a gameshow and bring out your best host impression!
Divide the class into two teams and challenge each to answer questions and earn points. About EF Who we are. Careers Join the team. Ideas, tips, and tools for language teachers around the world.
Back Topics. Grammar tips Teaching tips Life as a teacher. Why play? Pictionary, charades, and celebrity heads Always classic, these games are super versatile, let students practice specific vocabulary and expressions, and have the added bonus of encouraging a gleeful sort of atmosphere.
Twenty objects Put 20 objects on a table and give students a minute to memorize them. Tongue twisters Tongue twisters are great for lightening the mood, as an ice-breaker, or way to begin each class. A twist on Twister Put a twist on Twister by hiding colored discs with words, phrases, expressions, and target language written on them.
Dictionary Upper intermediate to advanced students will get a kick out of inventing definitions for uncommon words found at random in a dictionary. Want more free resources? Download yours here. Share this article. Latest articles from Teaching tips. Teacher Zone blog is a place for teachers around the world to read education news, interviews, tools and tips, and talk about how to live and work better both in and out of the classroom. Follow EF on:. Contact us. They are asked to line up and connect among themselves to represent a train.
Teacher says start when the train slowly moves forward. He would then give commands during the journey such as fast, slow, move backward, turn left and more. Kids would listen to these commands and make changes in their move.
Rest of the class would be divided into four and asked to stand at four corners of the class, say A, B, C and D. Then X will call out an alphabet and those students staying at that corner will be out of the game.
The rest of the three groups are again divided into four and asked to stand at four corners. X will again call out an alphabet and that group gets out. This elimination is continued until four students are at four corners and the luckiest student will be the last one standing. The teacher would write up vocabulary words in pieces of paper and folds it and keeps in a box. The class would be divided into two groups and the blackboard would also be partitioned into two, each side for a team.
A member from a team would come up and picks a piece of paper. He needs to write a meaningful sentence that includes the word specified on the paper on blackboard. Teacher would finally evaluate the sentences and the side with most meaningful sentences will win. This is an amazing game in which students need to connect two unrelated words by looking at their spelling. Teacher first writes a word on the board.
First student is asked to take the last three or four letters of the word and form another word. The next student has to repeat the same and this is continued until a student fails to form a word or misspells it. The game can be made tighter by restricting them to certain category of words. This is a team building activity for a new classroom. First teacher asks everybody to introduce themselves in a few sentences.
Once it is done, class would be divided into two teams. A student from a team is called up and his eyes would be tied. A student from the other team is then called and asked to say something.
This is an energizer game that would be apt to play at the end of a class which can be used as a revision too. The students are asked to stand on the line.
Teacher would pick a student and says a statement based on what is taught in the class. Teacher would continue the game and the last student standing in the line with the most right assessments will be the winner for the day.
This is a memory game for any level students that improve their attention to detail. The class is first divided into two.
Teacher has a set of cards which denotes different categories. The team with the most number of correct card recalls win. The class is first divided into teams. Teacher writes action words such as running, gardening, singing etc in pieces of paper. It is then folded and placed in a bag or box. A student from a team comes and picks a paper and enacts the word. The other team has to guess the word correctly to win a point. This is a great game that stimulates concentration and attention to detail in students while still having fun.
The teacher can first choose a list such as a number 1 to , a series of words, prime numbers and more according to the knowledge level of the students. The participants will be first informed about the buzzwords or numbers in the list, say every odd number, prime number, vowels or so. These are just a few among the many popular fun classroom activities for students. A board race, scavenger hunts, spin the wheel, and the jigsaw is among other commonly chosen fun classroom activities to let students enjoy the beautiful feeling of learning with fun.
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