Collection of games

Procedure: Pick a sentence out of your coursebook, and write it up on the board with the words in jumbled order:

early the I week to during have to go sleep

The students work out and write down the original sentence:

I have to go sleep early during the week or

During the week I have to go to sleep early.

If there is time, give a series of similar sentences, and the students do as much as they can in the time. You can use activity to review a grammatical point, taking the sentences from a grammar exercise.
Match the adjectives

Procedure: Write three adjectives on the board. For example:

Important dangerous heavy

Ask the students to suggest things, which could be described by all three adjectives. For example:

Student A: A car.

Student B: A plane.

Student C: An army.

Student D: A printing machine.

In pairs, ask the students to jot down three adjectives and as many things as they can think of which those adjectives could describe. Take three adjectives chosen by one pair of students, write them on the board and ask the class to suggest things, which the words might describe. Compare and discuss the pair’s suggestions with those of the class.
Sentence starters

Procedure: Write on the board:

Being young is…

Ask the students to call out what they think could be added to this sentence beginning. It there is time, ask the students to work with a neighbour, to select four of the lines, put them in order and then to find a fifth line which they feel makes the writing more like a poem. For example:

Being young is being with friends.

Being young is losing friends.

Being young is taking examinations.

Being young is wondering.

Classroom Rules: Must and Mustn't

Level: Easy to Medium

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  Prepare small pieces of paper each with either one thing students must do or one thing students must not do.
  
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  Tell the students that they are supposed to form sentences that explain classroom rules.
  
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  Divide the class into groups (of 4 if possible, so that everyone gets a chance to speak).
  
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  Give each group the pieces of paper.
  

The winning group, the group that finishes first, reads their sentences aloud. (Each student of the group reads one or two sentences depends on size of group.)

It's an easy game and the preparation does not take too much time. You can make as many rules as you wish.

Act Out an Activity

Level: Easy to Medium

This is a game-like activity to teach continous tense. One student simply acts out some activity (e.g.cooking) and the other students guess what that student is doing. The student who guesses correctly acts out another acitvity...

Reviewing Tenses