1: noughts and crosses

1. Draw a noughts and crosses grid on the board. Write number 1 9 (3x3 boxes) in the
corner of each square.

2. Divide the class into two teams. One team is X and the other O.

3. Decide on the topic of the questions you will ask they could refer to the previous
unit in the course book, be general questions about English, be on general knowledge or on
subjects the children study in their own language at school on anything at all.

4. In turn each team decides which square they want to nominate.

5. Teacher asks a question. If the team get it right their symbol is written in that square.

6. The first team to get a line of three symbols in any direction across the grid is the
winner.
You can play this game any number of times and keep score.

2: A - Z race
A great vocabulary revision game:

1. Divide the class into two teams each standing in line at the board.
2. Give them a topic like food and drink, sports, countries etc (they must be very large
lexical sets).
3. The student at the front on each line runs to the board and must write a word in this
lexical set beginning with A on the board.
4. She then hands the chalk or pen to the next person in the row (and runs to the back of
the line), who adds a word beginning with B until they reach Z.
5. If they cannot think of a word beginning with a particular letter they can leave a space,
but the team with most words at the end is the winner.
6.

3: Kim's game
A quiet game of concentration for when the laughter gets too much

Collect around 20 objects ruler, pen, comb etc. Just look around the classroom,
teachers room, your handbag or kitchen for objects that your students know the words for.
This game can even be played with 5 or 6 year olds if you limit the objects and ensure they
know the vocabulary.
Place the objects on a desk in the class covered with a scarf or something similar.
 Tell the students they will have 4 minutes (vary the time depending on the class) to
look carefully at the objects and remember them.
After 4 minutes cover the objects again and students must write down what they saw.
They can do this individually or in small groups.

4:making sentences
Find an English magazine or newspaper and cut out about 40 words ensuring you have a balance of parts
of speech and stick them onto a sheet of paper in no particular order something like this:

Give out copies of the sheets to students in groups of up to four. Print this set of words.

They have seven (depending on level and complexity of task) minutes to create: one sentence with three
words, one sentence with four words etc depending on level.