If you are looking for something to do with adults, look no further. Here are all the activities, materials and game reviews for use with adult students in the ESL classroom.
QR Code Time Treasure Hunt
This is a fun activity to practice telling the time in English. You could translate it for other languages and vary the level depending on your students. This is a fun and engaging way to motivate your students, giving them a real reason to tell the time! It’s based on reading and understanding skills, so […]
Present Continuous Conversation Game
What is it? This is a fun game that you can use to practise the Present Continuous tense in positive, negative and question forms with either one-to-one classes or with groups of students. It has been made in a pictorial form, so it is not necessarily just useful for English teachers, and can be adapted […]
Family Escape Game
Written to practice vocabulary relating to family and family relationships, you can play this Escape Game with students from about 11 years old upwards, depending on their level. It utilises in-laws, so you will have to make sure the required vocabulary is pre-taught. Students solve a series of puzzles. After each puzzle they enter their […]
Tessellation Station!
This is a triangle game, based on Big Potato’s ‘P for Pizza’, which is also a great game for English classes, but students need a reasonable level to play it, so this version is good to get them towards that level, and have a little fun during the long and laborious process of learning irregular […]
Verbo! An irregular verbs card game based on Uno.
I developed this game to practise irregular verbs and help students learn which verbs go with which. What to do Download the printable PDF at the end of the page. Print it off and laminate it. There is a card reverse included in the PDF to print the cards double-sided. How to play Students are […]
Jenga game adapted for the ESL classroom
Here’s a classic game that you can adapt and use to teach colours and numbers in the ESL/ESOL classroom. It’s fun too! What is it?… Jenga! I bought a colour jenga set that came with a colour dice, though you can just paint the blocks of a normal jenga. I then wrote numbers on both […]
Back to school game for personal information
I have developed this game for my classes to have a fun way to review simple introduction questions. I use a ball to review the questions with the class first. I pass the ball to a student and ask a question, they then have to answer it and then pass the ball to someone else […]
Tenses Rummy
I created this game to do controlled practice of verb tenses in positive, negative and interrogative forms. Setting up Print the cards, laminate and cut them out. That’s it! I have used this with groups of up to 8 players, however if you have bigger groups you may want to print off 2 copies. You […]
Rory’s Story Cubes
As an English language teacher, it can sometimes be difficult to come up with engaging activities that will encourage your students to practice speaking. This is where story cubes come in! They are a fantastic tool for practicing speaking skills in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. In this blog post, we’ll explore […]
One Night Werewolf
This is a review of a game which I use in class and I find particularly good for students to encourage speaking. It’s a type of game called a ‘hidden role’ game called One Night Werewolf. At the end of this post are 2 free themed downloadable adaptations of this game that I have made […]
Tinder Dates
This is a writing activity I put together for a teen class I have to get them writing short texts. In this activity they need to imagine they are on Tinder, or a similar dating app and write their profile, or profiles of imaginary people. There are no downloads really, as you can just do […]
Writing Memes
This activity is good for teenaged students with an intermediate level, though it can be used with lower level learners if adapted. The idea of the activity is for students to read and write short, funny texts for the photos given. All photos and examples, along with instructions are included in the attached PDF file. […]