We share two games that you can play with your young English learners, to help them practise grammar structures and revise vocabulary.
Find a partner
This is the perfect game to get all your learners involved, and to help them practise grammar structures.
Pupils write down one or two activities or things they like, do or can do. Then they stand up and try to find someone who likes the same thing, e.g. pupils write down ‘I like playing tennis’, then they have to find other pupils who like playing tennis by going roung the class and asking do you like playing tennis?’. Pupils record their findings and report back to the class: ‘Anna likes playing tennis and so do I’.
Sentence chain
You can use this game as a warm-up or to revise vocabulary from a previous lesson.
This is a chain activity. Start with an initial sentence, e.g. for an ‘enormous sandwich’ topic: ‘I’m making a sandwich and I need bread and chicken’. Ask pupils to continue, repeating your sentence and adding ingredient of their own: ‘I’m making a sandwich and I need bread, chicken and cheese’. The game continues until someone forgets an ingredient or can’t think of one to add. This can also be played as in teams.