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ESL Game Boards
The ESL game boards found on this page are in the form of Microsoft Word documents. It may take a few second to open. Just click, print, and photocopy. A great motivating TEFL activity.
Word Skills: Review synonyms, antonyms, beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle sounds, and rhymes.
Guess What: Practise the word skill of saying what things are using relative clauses such as a person who, a place where, a time when, and a thing that.
Elementary School Science: Comprehension and vocabulary questions for grade 2-4 elementary school science.
What Do You Want to Do: Teach concepts vocabulary about things that kids typically want like to do such as playing a game or doing a puzzle.
Community Board Game: Teach concepts related to communities such as places in a community, people in a community, being a good citizen and being a good neighbor. -Sent in by Gary Kolenbrander
Past Tense Talk - Students must make a sentence with the verb that they land on. They also must use also use an expression of time according to what number they role.
Animal Kingdom: Describe, Compare, and Contrast - Students describe and compare animals with lots of animal vocabulary such as gills, horns, hooves, scales, fur, and tentacles.
Phonics Board Games: Say and Spell It
A collection of big board games for teaching decoding and spelling skills.
Phonics CVC Words Spin and Spell - Students spin and a dial and say the words combining the spin with the square that they land on. Sent in by Jennifer McCabe.
Present Continous Verses Simple Present- Students make statements using the present continuous or simple present depending on the time marker. Sent in by Regina Diesel Gomes.
Comparative Adjectives- Students use comparative adjective to compare two things. Sent in by James Mangan in South Korea.
Action Verbs- Students land on a verb and act it out. Sent in by Lisa Haim.
What Would You Do If . . . - A game for practising hypothetical speech and would. If you like this game you might also be interested in a game that covers a similar topic: Hypothetically Speaking.
Say Two Things and Ask a Questions - Students have to talk about whatever topic they land on and ask another student about the topic.
Say Two Things - Another version of 'Say Two Things' (sent in by Peter Blank from Japan).
Say Four Things - A good game for younger learners. They have to say four things about whatever topic they land on.
Future Talk- Students answer questions about the future using a variety of future expressions such as: I'm going to . . . I've decided to . . . I'm planning to . . . I might . . . I'm thinking of . . . Goes well with this worksheet on future expressions.
Frequency- Students have to make a sentence using a phrase and a frequency adverb. And then they have to ask a question. Thanks to Susan Kuhn for sending it in.
Personalities - Students talk about people they know using personality vocabulary such as stingy, generous, moody, and adventurous.
Embedded Questions - A grammar focus game where students use embedded question noun clauses to make sentences. High level and grammar oriented.
Noun Clauses - An advanced grammar game. Students have to construct sentences using five different kinds of noun clauses. Very difficult and very grammar oriented.
Rhymes and Opposites - Suitable for younger students. Students have to find opposite words and rhyming words.
Simple Past and Present Perfect - A nice review of grammar for the simple past and present perfect. Sent in by Yann Vienne in France.
What if - A nice review of conditionals. Sent in by Yann Vienne in France.
If consequences- Another nice review of conditionals. Sent in by Regina Diesel Gomes.
Irregular Past Tense Verbs- A game which covers the past tense of irregular verbs. Sent in by Gitel Hesselberg.
Irregular Verbs- This game reviews irregular verbs. Sent in by Yann Vienne in France.
Favorites- Students name their favorite things and why. Sent in by Robert Fidler in Korea.
Wishes and Hopes - Students discuss their wishes and hopes about a variety of topics. Sent in by Cristina Petersen from Global Village English Center Ltd. Victoria, Canada.
Adverb Board Game- Students role the dice and land on an adjective. They must change the adjective to an adverb and use it in a sentence. Sent in by Brandy Rath.
Wh Question Game- Students role the dice and land on a word. They must make a WH question with the word. Which WH question will depend on the dice rolled. Sent in by Marjorie Clarke in Spain.
Job Gameboard- Students land on a tool or a place and must describe who uses that tool. Sent in by Troy Gray.
Blank Template - Make your game using this template. If you send a made game back to us, we'll post it. :)
All About You- Students role the dice and land on a question that they have to answer about themselves. Sent in by Kristin Licitis in Japan.
Adjectives and Descriptions - Students use adjectives in a sentence to describe nouns. Sent in by Terri Hoyt
Quiz Gameboards: With these games, teachers print off a set of comprehension questions and a gameboard. If students land on a symbol they have to answer a question with that symbol. Special thanks to Stephanie Rothwell for designing the first version "Dinosaur Quiz' and coming up with the idea. Of course, if you make a set of questions, we'd love to post them for the ESL community to use.
Dinosaur Quiz Gameboard and Dinosaur Quiz Questions - Students cover a lot of material related to dinosaurs. Questions are heavy on comparatives. Sent in by Stephanie Rothwell.
Animal Quiz Gameboard and Animal Quiz Questions - Students answer questions about animals. Sent in by Stephanie Rothwell.
Blank Gameboard Template and Blank Question Template
Another Gameboard Template:
This gameboard template was sent in by Liron Perlmutter. Thanks go out to Liron.
ABC Begins With - Here is one example of how to use the template sent in by Liron Perlmutter. Students roll the dice and guess a word that begins with the letter. Here are some harder variations:
Animals that Begins With Words Begin With (Categories) Words that Begin With (Hard)
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