English Games For Adults and Teenagers PDF

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BOGGLE
Teacher prepares a grid of consonants and vowels 6 x 6 and puts it on Spelling; word awareness.
the board. Two teams have 3 minutes to list as many words as they
can make by joining adjacent letters (up, down, left, right & diagonal) in
the grid.
CHALLENGE
Word pyramid game. 1st student writes one letter on board. 2nd stude Spelling; word building; suffixes
writes the same letter underneath and adds a letter. 3rd student copies
the two letters underneath and adds another. This continues until a
student thinks it's impossible to continue the word and shouts
CHALLENGE. If the student can name the word the challenger is
eliminated and vice versa.
HOUSE RULES
Working in groups of 3 or 4, ( 1 ) students write down a description of Conversation; ‘real’ English
the apartment they are sharing, and include ( 2 )details about whether
they are working, on the dole or studying. Then they ( 3 ) make a list of
house rules for harmoniously living together. ( 4 ) Each group
describes to the class their situation. Then ask if ( 5 ) anyone would
like to change apartment. If so, the student sits with the new group who
then explain the house rules of their place while the rest of the class
avidly listens. The student can try another apartment if they don’t like
the sound of the first one.
JUST A MINUTE
Teacher names topic and 1st student talks about it. Interrupted by Fluency, confidence speaking,
other students for hesitation, repetition, irrelevance and grammar. eliminating personal mistakes.
Successful challenger continues with what remains of the minute on
the same topic. Bad challenges lose points, complete minute by one
student wins lots of points.
LANDSCAPE GAME
Ask studes to draw a landscape which included the following: Generating natural discussion
1 bushes (friends) 5 a snake (sex)
2 a house (the self) 6 the Sun (religion)
3 mountains (outlook*) 7 a tree (father)
4 a path (ambition) 8 water (mother)
* pointed = pessimistic; round = optimist
When they have finished, ask them what they think each feature
represents, tell them and ask them to interpret their drawings. Be
sensitive about it.
MASTERWORD
Similar to Mastermind but with words. Someone thinks of a four letter Word awareness, discovering new
word (say LOVE) and draws this grid on the board. words.
Quantity of Correctly (love)Don't
letters Positioned write this!
3 3 live
2 1 vale
3 3 move
4 4 love
Studes say four letter words which get a score according to their
closeness to the target word. It's a logic game.
NEVER ENDING SENTENCE
One student starts a sentence and the next one carries it on with AND Sentence structure
or BUT.
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PATH GAME
Ask studes write down a descriptions of: Writng; generating natural
1 a path (outlook on life) discussion
2 a twig they find (small problem)
3 a trunk lying across the path (big problem)
4 A bear ahead sitting on the path (someone sexually attractive)
5 A fork in the road. (politics)
6 A wall (death)
7 What they hear on the other side (afterlife)
Students read out their descriptions; you ask what they think each
thing means; explain the meaning; discuss the results.
POSTIT
Need a selfadhesive pad. Everyone writes name of a famous person Question formation.
on paper and slaps it on the forehead of student. Everyone has one
and takes turns asking yes/no questions to the class to find out who it
is.
TIC TAC TOE
"Noughts and crosses" with words. Draw 3X3 grid on board and fill Adverbs of frequency, linkers,
squares with adverbs of frequency, verbs, question words OR ANY verbs, making questions, past of
FUNCTIONAL GROUP. 2 teams. 1st chooses a square and if they verbs, and much more.
make a perfect sentence with the word e.g. I go to the cinema once a
month, then they win the square. Win or lose, second team then tries.
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