Game based learning activities for ESL | Games for children

Описание: Let’s be real. Teaching English to kids sometimes isn’t easy. They are often not that interested in speaking English to each other, or to you! That’s why you’ll need a variety of game based activities for kids to keep things fresh and interesting.

Check out these fun ESL speaking games for children that are engaging, interactive and student-centred. Your students will love them and keep coming back for more of these speaking games for kids. Game-based learning is where it's at, if you want to keep things fresh and exciting in the classroom.

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Timestamp Game based learning video:
0:08 Running dictation
0:54 Concentration
1:46 Charades or pictionary
2:01 Boardgames
2:58 Hot potato
3:37 Final thoughts

Transcript:
Hereare my favorite game-based learning activities for ESL. Number one is running dictation. So, this is when you have a conversation between two people and then like maybe there's Bob and Tim, Bob, Tim, and I'll cut up Bob's lines into one sheet of paper, Tim's lines, Bob's lines, etc. Generally, I'll have maybe like eight to 10 slips of paper, and then I tape them at kind of random points around the classroom. Then I put students into pairs. One person is the writer and the listener and they sit at their desk with a pen and paper and the other person is the runner. So they read one of the lines and then they remember it and then they go back to their partner and tell their partner what to write down. Uh so once they have like all eight lines or whatever it is that you have, they have to put the conversation into the into the correct order.

The second game for ESL is concentration. So, this is such a nice way to focus on vocabulary or something like giving advice using should or shouldn't. So, for vocabulary, you could do maybe just like a picture of an elephant and then the word elephant, something like that. So, put them all on little squares of paper. I like to have maybe about 16 squares and then put students into groups of three or four. The first student flips over two papers, takes a look. If they're a match, elephant, elephant, they take the paper and then go again. If not, they put it in the same spot, not randomly.

The third game for ESL teachers is charades or Pictionary. I know that's two games, but they're very similar. Charades is acting. Pictionary is drawing. This is a nice way to focus on vocabulary and also have a bit of fun in your class.

The fourth game based learning activity for ESL is board games. So, not just any random board game that you bring into class, but I like to design my own. So, it's very easy. Come up with a grid, maybe like 5x5. I usually use like Google Drive to do it. And then, I'll put a bunch of questions on the board focused on like whatever I'm teaching that day. So, going back to advice, so maybe I can't sleep at night. And then some other problems like I'm failing my math class or like my mom is always mad at me or um I think my boyfriend's going to break up with me. I don't know. Just whatever it is, just problems that high school students or university students or whoever you're teaching might have. And then I put students into small groups of three or four and then give them some dice and they move the number of squares. And then if they land on, for example, I can't sleep at night they have to give some advice related to that.

And the final game I have for ESL teachers is Hot Potato. So I'm sure you've played Hot Potato as a kid or seen it kind of on Amazon. You can buy the actual Hot Potato, but you don't need to do that. You could just look on YouTube and there's Hot Potato music or just get any song you want. And then students pass around an object around the classroom. I recommend something soft. I mean, I've seen it before where people have thrown things, whatever. So, bring like a little stuffed animal or a little squishy ball, whatever. Anyway, students pass it around the classroom and then when the music stops, whoever holding that object has to do a task of some kind. So those are it for my game-based learning activities for ESL.

Do you have a favourite game-based ESL activity that you do with your students? Leave a comment.