Games for language

learning
By Aye Pyae Sone
TESOL online class
Date 25.9.2020
Explain why you are using games
Avoid the possibility of learners that you are just
wasting their time.
 Be prepared
for different attitudes
for learners

To avoid unduly competitive manners of learners, tell

them these facts.
1. The purpose is to have some fun.
2. Not to make mistakes or errors seriously
3. Use these errors as learning experiences
1) Who am I?
2) What’s my line?
3) Animal, vegetable or mineral
4) Knockout quizzes
5) Crosswords or wordsearches
6) Alphabetical circles
7) First and last letters
8) Single letter mindmaps
9) Homophones
10)Scrabble
Who am I?
Teacher/ Group A Students/ Group B

Choose a famous person Ask ‘Yes or No’ questions to

find out the famous person
Answer only ‘Yes or No’ Are you male or female?
Are you a politician?
Are you an actor?
Are you a writer?
 What’s my line? (Job descriptions)
Teacher/ Group A Students/ Group B
Choose a job Ask ‘Yes or No’ questions to find
out the job
Answer only ‘Yes or No’ Is your work outdoor or indoor?
Do you work with computer?
Do you provide a service to
people?
 Animal, Vegetable or Mineral
Teacher/ Group A Students/ Group B

Choose one topic from these three Ask only 20 ‘Yes or No’
categories and tell them the topic questions to find out the animal.
that you choose.
Eg. This is animal.
Answer only ‘Yes or No’ Does this animal live in jungle?
Is it big?
Can it fly?
Knockout quizzes

1. Prepare a series of cards

(one side – questions, one side – answer)
2. Note numbers for each card.
3. Give each team one series of cards.
4. Team A select one number
5. Team B hold up this card and show the question.
6. If Team A answer correctly, they’ve got one point and it is
Team B turn to select one card number.
7. If Team B say wrong answer, Team B get one point and
Team B ask question again.
Crosswords or wordsearches

 Select a topic such as food

 Divide groups
 Give learners time to make crossword or
wordsearch
 Exchange and answer their crosswords
 Alphabetical circles
1. Choose a topic eg. Shopping
2. The first learner say ‘I went to the supermarket
and bought an apple.’
3. The second learner ‘I went to the supermarket
and bought an apple and bananas.”
4. The other learners could tell alphabetically.
(carrots, dishes, eggs, ……)
First and last letters
 Choose the topics (animals, countries, capitals
and so on)
Elephant
tiger
rhinoceros
seal
Single letter mindmaps

Diaster
Deep water
Danger

Driving too fast

Homophones
Draw a sketch of something Eg (witch, arm)
Look for the word which sounding is the same
as the word represented by the sketch
Scrabble
 Give the words that are not meaningful.
 Tell students to make meaningful words
Body Parts
1. mra …arm…….
2. housdrel …………..
3. hnic …………..
4. iswat ……………
 Group 1

1 How many bones does an adult human have?

2 What are the colors of a rainbow?

3 Which animal is known as the ship of the desert?

4 How many consonants are there in the English Alphabat?

5 How many zeros are there in one hundred thousand?

6 How many primary colors are there?

 Group 2

1 What do you call a house made of ice?

2 Which is the largest animal in the world?

3 Which festival is known as the festival of colors?

4 What type of bird lay the largest egg?

5 Which month of the year has the least number of days?

6 How many days are there in a leap year?

Thank you