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Is & Are Drawing Game

Simple and fun practice of Present Simple of be with jobs, family vocabulary, nationality adjectives, etc, starting with guessing the drawings and then presenting the grammar through error correction of the sentences that they just drew and guessed.
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Is a rainbow brown? – Colours Mix and Match

Funny and sensible colours and nouns combinations activity.
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Is there & Are there plus prepositions mix and match

Students take turns asking funny questions like "Are there 100 bicycles under your desk?" and trying to change them to more sensible ones, for "Is there/ Are there...?" and prepositions of location practice.
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Is there & Are there- Spelling Games

Students practise spelling and there is/ there are yes/ no questions at the same time, first as a pairwork spelling test and then as a guessing game like hangman, including there is/ are questions and answers grammar presentation.
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Is there/Are there Trivia Quiz

A fun game for there is/ are practice in which students test the general knowledge of their classmates, starting with a quick reactions folding paper game
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It is/ They are & my/ your/ his/ her Drawing Game

A fun Present Simple of be and possessive adjectives pick and draw game, with vocabulary of clothes, body parts, toys and transport, and optional colours and other adjectives cards.
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Jobs Vocabulary

A fun comparing jobs card game, based on the memory game/ pelmanism/ pairs, but with any possible match allowed, including suffixes in jobs words presentation.
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Jobs- Drawing Game

Is and are and names of jobs practice through a drawing game, including a similar and different jobs presentation.
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Jobs- Mix and Match

What people do in different jobs silly and sensible matches activities with Present Continuous practice.
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Like & Don’t like TPR coin game

Like and don't like + nouns and gerunds practice with a fun miming game, starting with suggested things to act out their positive and negative feelings about.
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Like & don’t like- coin games

Ten fun flipping a coin games to practise like and don't like, including trying to get particular answers, finding preferences that people share, lying games, and guessing games.
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Like & Don’t Like- Common Games

Students find tastes that they share with their partners in order to practise the language of preferences, using the suggested topics and phrases if they like, then find differences in likes and dislikes and/ or play coin games.
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Like & Don’t Like- Things In Common Sentence Completion

Students share their preferences to complete sentences covering both of them like "We both adore....", then try to recall and analyse the strong and weak likes and dislikes language that they just used,
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Like + Gerund Dice Game

Like + verb personalised speaking practice with a fun dice game in which students try to make true statements about their partner(s) and people they know.
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Like and Would Like- Make me say yes speaking game

Students try to get positive responses to preferences and desires yes/ no questions with like, including trying to work out which grammar is needed for each suggested question by meaning and guessing about your partner.
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Like- Alphabet Coin Game

Two fun personalised speaking coin games to practise first letter phonics and like/ don't like, including with third person -s.
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Likes and Dislikes- Guessing Objects

Likes, dislikes and favourites speaking practice through guessing objects from hints and brainstorming how people and things feel about one thing, with suggested objects cards and third person -s practice.
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Months and Colours- Mix and Match

Months of the year and colour vocabulary silly and sensible combinations activities.
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Months and Dates Vocabulary

Practising vocabulary with a months memory game, including actions vocabulary and ordinal numbers.
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Months- Hangman

Students give hints about what month they are thinking of until their partner can spell that month letter by letter in a hangman spelling game, including personalised speaking and suggested descriptions of what happens in particular months.
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Names of Months Dominoes

Learning how to read, write and spell the names of months with dominoes games .
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Names of Months Flashcard Memory Games

Drilling the names of months with a vocabulary flashcard memory game, including places, sports, weather, food,
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Nationality Word Endings

Students practise adding suffixes to country words to make nationality adjectives with two fun matching words with the same endings card games, a slow one based on pelmanism/ the memory game/ pairs, and/ or a fast reactions one based on Snap.
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Nationality Words- Stress Maze Games

Nationality adjectives stressed on the first syllable and on the second syllable games.
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Nationality Words- Syllables Maze Games

Number of syllables in nationality adjectives games.
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Numbers and Spelling Games

Two fun games combining practice of how to pronounce numbers and letters of the alphabet, including a simplified hangman game and a numbers and letters code.
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Opposites Hangman- Spelling and Guessing Game

Students guess pairs of opposites letter by letter like a kind of double hangman, starting with very easy opposites like yes - no and hot - cold, also useful practice for spelling and pronouncing letters of the alphabet.
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Opposites Miming Games

TPR practice of simple opposites, including very basic ones like yes and no and elementary adjective antonyms.
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Ordering products on the phone- line by line disappearing text

A fun memory game to help memorise typical phrases for making orders by telephone, including useful language for starting calls, checking/ clarifying, and ending calls.
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Ordinal Numbers Competitions

Competitive practice of first, second, third, etc, including guessing games, races, personalised speaking, and getting to know their classmates.
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Ordinal Numbers Practice

Using first, second, third, fourth, etc to say which one from lists of vocabulary is different, including lots of different useful language.
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Ordinal Numbers- Flashcard Memory Games

Practising first, second, third, etc with a vocabulary memory game, including lots of useful vocabulary.
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Ordinal Numbers- Spelling Games

Six fun variations on hangman to help practise first, second, third, etc, spelling, and pronouncing the alphabet.
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Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives Drawing Game

Students practise my, your, his, her and maybe to say what they add to pictures, then use the pictures to describe routines with I, you, he, she and maybe it.
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Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives Memory Games

Students memorise useful model texts with I/ my, you/ your, he/ his, she/ her, we/ our and they/ their with a disappearing text game, then test each other in other fun ways.
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Pick and Act- Imperatives Card Game

Fun TPR verb and don't + verb practice for giving instructions/ commands/ orders, with students following instructions their classmates make from cards about what to do or not do around the class.
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Positive and negative question tags

Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.
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Possessive Adjectives Drawing Game

Students pick and draw objects with your, my, his and her to go with pictures of themselves and their classmates, including the option of silly things for other people.
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Possessive Adjectives- Brainstorming

Three different coming up with many sentences with my, your, his and her sentences games, including personalised speaking and drawing.
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Possessives- Drawing Game

Two fun drawing and guessing games for possessive S and my/ your/ his/ her, suitable also for young and/ or low level learners.
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Postcards- Chain Writing

Practising present tenses and writing with consequences
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Preposition Dice Games

Lots of fun dice games to practise prepositions of location, with versions that are also good for number word recognition, and an extension where students make up their own similar games.
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Prepositions of Position- Making Sentences TPR Game

Students put cards together to make actions with prepositions of location that their partners should do, including fun combinations like "Put your sock in front of your nose"
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