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/r, w/ Minimal Pairs

Say rack and whack 5 times. A Baamboozle to practice /r, w/ minimal pairs

LUgoretz 21 730

5 Words. 1 Marvel Movie.

Can you determine this Marvel movie with only 5 words?

EwwDavid 24 4,359

20 Questions about Santa

See how much you know about good ol' Saint Nick

Takarazuka English Academy 19 4,210

101 Phrasal Verbs

Complete the phrasal verbs.

Jack 101 46,901

A (an) / The / No article

A fun multiple choice game to test students knowledge on using articles

Mai Linh Nguyen 16 19,996

A Different Point of View

Answer the conversation questions, as someone else.

HelloHello 24 21,172

Oh Grow Up! How to do some basic "adulting" so you don't have to call mom or dad all the time.

MVelikanje 23 953

Adverb or Adjective?

Choosing the difference between adjectives and adverbs

Yorchiux 16 5,150

Say the first letter of the words.

Alex Marushchak 26 39,895

A guide to the slang expressions heard in the United States - in the movies, in the streets, college campuses or just by plain folks

Marcelo Magalhães Mércio 24 1,719

Animal Body Parts

Look at the pictures and correctly name these animal parts.

mataux2021 16 5,339

Guess animals by looking at their eyes

english1to1 38 103,085

I live in the sea and I have 5 arms, what am I?

Thi Pham 24 8,768

Animals Spelling Bee

Multiple choice spelling and animals.

Bonny 24 12,841

Animal Word Search

Read the clue and race to find the animal (Elementary)

Jack 16 20,669

Choose the correct article.

Ms.Selene 24 23,807

Unstuck your thinking with these varied questions about stuck thoughts and positive thinking.

Adeline Paduraru 16 1,908

Asking The Right Question

What question do you need to ask to get the information you need? Revision of question formation in English

JUAN 23 14,107

B1 Preliminary (Daily routine)

Part 1 Speaking Questions

maestraclyde 24 266

B1 Reading Part 6 Open Gap fill (game 2)

PET Practice for Cambridge Preliminary

Scott Wonenberg 18 245

B1-Preliminary (Part 4 Questions)

B1-Preliminary (Part 4 Questions)

maestraclyde 18 267

Basic Verbs for Kids

Say the name of the activity in the gifs

daniluk.s 36 54,912

Answer the questions, unscramble sentences, make predictions and make sentences (Future - be going to)

Tatiana 35 27,947

Can you answer these riddles? Credit: Bright Side on YouTube

Khaleesi 32 8,685

A brainteaser is a type of riddle that makes one think outside the box. Some are easy, some are a little harder, and some can really make you ponder for a while...

NLV 25 2,632

Bro, Do You Even Pronounce?

Difficult words to pronounce (Intermediate/advanced ESL)

Antoneoted 21 13,524

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Look at the pictures from the book by Eric Carle and tell us what you see.

may ash 20 3,593

Students solve quick word money problems and decide whether they could buy an item or not.

Helen Arce 30 25,482

Can You Spot the Error?

Error Corrections; test your understanding of the grammar and vocabulary in this unit. Each of these sentences contains one error.

TeacherP 20 6,456

Caption that Meme

Look at the meme and finish the caption!

msshelley 16 15,623

Character Adjectives

Read the definition and write one suitable character adjective for it.

Augustine 16 13,995

Interesting questions to get students talking

Daniele 19 12,245

Close Up Pictures

These pictures are taken up close, try to guess what they are.

skjamie25 26 16,611

Coco in the Land of the Dead!

Revising Halloween vocabulary with the film Coco and what we know about it and the Day of the Dead.

Vanessa 17 1,841

Commonly Confused Words

English words that are commonly mistaken

Information Waitress 31 8,244

Communication Quiz

A mega-quiz relating to various vocabulary relating to the topic of communication, including devices, means, verbs & general knowledge.

Teacher Diana 24 1,567

Comparatives and Superlatives

Complete the sentences with the comparatives or superlatives

Marta G 18 153,849

Comparatives and Superlatives

Have fun testing your knowledge of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Luciano Correa Mariano 21 51,067

Connectors & phrasals FCE

Ignacio 24 246

Context Clues - Level 1

Defining words in context, for introducing the skill or for younger students

tesshuwe 20 2,009

Conversation for Adults 2

Conversational ice breakers for adults or advanced English speakers

Nestoraz 24 2,121

Creative Sentences

Help students to practice more vocabulary by describing fun images

willazuma 20 29,602

Do you hear the common expression hiding in the nonsense phrasing? Repeat the words a few times aloud, and you're sure to guess that you are actually saying.

daniel 27 8,305

Show your argumentative skills with these controversial topics. Ideas should be vetted. If they hold up, they are worth clinging to

dangerousdave23 33 22,188

For students aged 10-12, here are some topics to debate generated by Chat GPT.

Teacher Pao 16 2,074

Describing familiar nouns and using your best descriptive words

jkracoff 19 4,071

Describe This Poster

Look at each of these posters for movies and TV series and give your best description

marykrvv 19 2,186

Do You See What I See?

A tricky game of optical illusions.

Brendanryle 21 10,053

Easy to Answer Questions

Choose the right multiple choice answer

Mayelin Sanchez Sarmiento 17 5,121

Easy to Answer Questions

Choose the right multiple choice answer

Mayelin Sanchez Sarmiento 17 5,121

Ever Felt Like This?

Fun social emotional questions with memes

Artie 20 30,966

Everyday English Expressions

Using everyday English expressions that are sure to impress native speakers

danitalanguages 42 1,241

Everyday Phrases

Practice production of these commonly used phrases

AnnieMcClure 21 759

Extending Patterns

What comes next?

B 20 6,729

Extreme Survivors

Test your knowledge with this trivia game about some animals in the arctic, desert and ocean

Ms. Alison 17 2,949

Family Feud Baamboozled Edition

Try and guess the top answer for each question to earn points! Watch out for the Baamboozles.

tawny 30 8,352

Family members for beginners (possessive sentences)

Miss Belu 30 77,689

FCE - OPEN CLOZE

LINKING WORDS FOR FCE

marinaluisar 19 81

FCE INTRODUCTION

PRESENTATION OF THE FCE EXAM

daisyszara 18 20

FCE key work transformations

Elenika84 14 47

FCE Level - Structures

profLFP 18 108

FCE prepositions

Most common prepositions for FCE

Jaqueline Salles 16 286

anaharte 31 389

Speaking questions for FCE students

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 29 1,135

FCE Transformations

FCE Reading and Use of English Part 4

Luke Atkins 17 177

Vũ Thủy 10 35

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 61 1,012

FCE Vocabulary Part 2

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 77 283

FCE Vocabulary Part 3

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 59 274

FCE Vocabulary Part 4

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 68 217

Find the Intruder

The words have something in common, except one. You have to find how the words are similar and discover the intrusive word.

Arturo Bayley 24 12,807

Find the Odd Man Out

Look at the words and identify the odd word.

prizolina 21 5,680

First and Second Conditionals

Complete the sentence in this review game

biancaramoss 19 36,772

First and Second Conditionals

A game to instigate and improve speaking abilities, using conditionals.

Sweet17 20 38,127

Following Directions

Following 2-step directions using basic prepositional concepts

tstarke 24 4,840

Forward & Backward Counting

Counting on or back in 1, 2, 5,10 and 100

Teacher Steph 20 1,651

General Knowledge - Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

How much do you know? Let's test your knowledge with this quiz!

mtlake 24 25,918

General Knowledge for Kids

A multiple choice quiz for ESL learners, 6-8 years old

David Woods 24 8,448

Generating Synonyms in Sentences

Change the words in all capital letters to a synonym. (Intermediate)

wferrara 20 4,252

Get To Know Each Other

Questions to help find out more about your classmates

janos.ujlaki 18 19,364

Get To Know Each Other

A fun icebreaker to find out what makes us unique

huppertk 24 7,274

Ghostly Gap Sentences

Fill in the gaps and finish the fun Halloween sentences!

Mr. Harry 36 4,859

Gold B1 Preliminary Unit 1

Vocabulary/grammar review

Giovanni 32 194

Guess the /ER/ Word

Read the clue and practice saying these words with the /er/ sound in them.

jbraaten 24 2,896

Guess the Category

See three words and say how they are related

willpetley 19 12,748

Guess the Country

See how many countries you can name.

Baamboozle 30 47,969

Guess the Disney Movie from the Emojis

Look at the emojis and guess.

Tamara N Caffro Blue 20 74,564

Guess the Gibberish

Try to read the words quickly to read through the gibberish.

BeyZaSu 21 4,864

Guess the Movie

Guess the name of the movie by reading the clues

SheylaSouto 18 52,547

Can you guess the word from the image?

T. Jazz 18 81,420

Guess the Words!

Put the clues together to guess the countries, vegetables, food, movies, etc.

Teacher Emma 23 10,886

Halloween Idioms

Don't let the cat out of the bag and give your friend the answers!

SabrinaGibson 16 1,509

Halloween I Spy

I spy for Halloween - good for grades 10-12

chiara22 16 1,389

One person from each team sits in the Hot Seat with the board behind them. Other team members try to describe the words on the board to the player without using the other words.

flamingpickle 20 2,367

Housework, Furniture and Parts of the House

ESL basic vocabulary.

virtus 23 24,962

How Are You Feeling?

Can you read these sentences using the correct intonation?

allanj 17 1,288

How Often Do You... ?

Answer the questions using adverbs of frequency

Marta Quirós 22 37,425

What would you name these silly animal fusions?

Nguyễn Tường Vy 18 10,883

Icebreakers for Adults

Fun questions for students to get to know each other.

Heidi Reitzfeld 24 52,152

Idioms for Kids

Idioms are word combinations that have a different figurative meaning than the literal meanings of each word or phrase

kplummer 16 1,094

Idioms in Context: 2

Can you read the idiom in context and determine the true meaning?

msuhr 20 917

Idioms to Describe People

Common idiomatic expressions to describe people

aroundthefairy 28 6,358

Use if or unless to complete the sentences.

JonathanK 24 6,648

Inferencing | Animal Edition

Students use inferencing skills to determine which animals the clues are describing!

misskothlow 37 12,563

Can you name those food items?

SGA 64 8,642

Irregular Plural Nouns

Most plurals are formed by adding 's' or 'es', but not these ones. How many do you know? (Upper Intermediate ESL)

Mr Linh 50 11,490

Is - Am - Are - Do - Does

Fill in the gaps

sea1204 24 42,557

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C. You can drive it.

Tilly 16 45,982

I Spy Halloween!

Find the item in the picture that is described in the clues.

Susan Tourdot 25 31,452

Jobs & Definitions

Guess the job for each definition

ANAEO 27 20,127

See if you can guess the missing word in these hilarious jokes!

Winnie 24 4,758

Keyword Transformation

B2 keyword transformation

Verafer 20 350

Like Yoda, Can You Talk?

In celebration of Talk Like Yoda Day, decipher these sentences.

Teacher Today 16 547

Kid friendly logos

Rebecca 30 112,851

Do you hear the Ah or the Aye sound, spell it correctly! With a few spelling homophones for fun as well.

EduAlexisESL 40 5,790

Another way of saying to get married is to: ____________

Daniela 18 2,833

Make & Answer Questions

Order the words and answer.

Paula Miretti 24 7,046

Make a Sentence: People & Jobs

A game about jobs and places of work for younger students. Teams write their answers or tell you many words are in the sentence.

Ronan 30 9,219

Identify these collocations with make and do

Geisha ALA 27 5,942

MISspelling Bee

Calender or calendar? Correctly spell the MISspelled word.

Tilly 36 8,521

Mixed conditionals

mixed conditionals

leybey 20 423

Completing the sentences with suitable forms of verbs.

Jenjen 26 27,644

Money Makes the World Go Round

Explain these money idioms in your own words

JENNY TSALERA 20 689

More Prepositions

Preposition of place and time (in, at, on).

hakan 38 25,245

Move It or Lose It!

Guess what the image will be. If you are wrong you must do the action!

Ronan 40 13,351

Multiple Choice Opposites

More than 50 adjectives to learn

HelloHello 52 20,434

Multiple Meaning Words

Read the sentences and choose the correct word that fits in both of them.

Dee Vancura 18 3,022

Mystery Object Riddles

Guess the object from fun and engaging clues! (Some are tricky - beware!)

WhatAmI 24 7,362

Name 3 foods you eat with your hands.

SusanMain 24 16,853

Name 3 things in a medicine cabinet, 3 things you shout or 3 things that have spots. The name 3 game you love to play but with new and different categories!

Ally 36 4,428

Think fast to get warmed up for class!

JR Onaut 32 62,640

Name a Job That Starts With the Letter ___

How many jobs can you name that start with the given letter?

thanhtam520 24 5,755

Can you name something that has four wheels?

sifflard 24 65,484

Narrative Tenses

Fill in the blank with the correct multiple choice answer to practice narrative tenses

SusanMain 18 3,235

Not Your Everyday Vocabulary

Everyday items that we never think to name

PizzaLife 24 4,437

Play this word formation game to create advanced nouns! (B2+/C1 levels)

Agnieszka Magoń 23 1,698

Nouns: Person, Place or Thing

Students will choose if the pictured noun is a person, place or thing. (For non-verbal students print a sheet with picture symbols for person, place and thing.)

KirCurlz3 39 11,712

One Is Not the Same

Choose the odd one out and explain why it doesn't fit.

almamendiburu 34 9,095

Speaking exercise on various topics to play with the timer (A2/B1 level)

daniluk.s 40 37,764

One Product - Name Four Brands

Look at the type of product and name four brands that make it!

Teacher Emma 16 9,786

Order the Adjectives

Write and order the sentences

hugopimentel 20 771

Parts of Speech

Look at the gif and guess which part of speech it is: noun, verb, adjective or adverb.

Cey_Sev 24 4,435

Parts of Speech

Let's practice the different parts of speech

Laura Victoria Cepeda Echeverri 35 12,933

Parts of the Body

Practicing vocabulary for the parts of the body.

claricemelo 17 13,890

Personality Adjectives

Read the description and think of the best personality adjective that describes it

Julia-V 22 2,469

Phonics & Spelling Mix

Language Arts for grade 1

Ms. Cara 39 2,173

Phrasal verbs Speaking

FCE Speaking Questions containing phrasal verbs

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 17 230

Draw the item written.

TeacherTati 18 1,784

Picture Descriptions

Have your students describe what they are doing, where they are and what they see in the background.

newtownqhd 16 8,188

Pictures to Inspire Sentence Production

Make sentences about these pictures to work on grammatical forms, sentence length, or articulation.

Susan Tourdot 49 6,840

A mix of regular and irregular

evgeniyagerasimova888 24 11,764

Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

Choose the correct word to complete the sentence

deleted 20 46,013

Prefixes and Suffixes

Word parts and their meanings.

Julie 33 8,060

Preliminary Reading practice

le´s practice what you have learned

NELLY HERNANDEZ 15 259

The kitten is sitting ... the box! (Read the sentences and say the correct preposition of place and movement)

ekaterina 31 21,120

Prepositions of Movement

Up, down, towards, back, round and through

luanerick 16 3,628

Prepositions of Time

Fill in the blanks with in, at, on

Jack 30 58,449

Price is Right (Summer Edition)

Guess the correct price of the items.

Mrs. B 32 3,534

Price is Right - February 2023

Guess the cost of a grocery item (information from February 2023)

hollyparry 31 1,010

Price is Right: March 21, 2023

Guess the cost of grocery items

hollyparry 33 919

Problem Solving

Choose a good solution for some of these problems

Campos 21 8,247

Pronouncing "ed" Endings

This game will help beginners to pronounce "ed" ending words.

Natlus English 30 20,620

Explain the positive and negative sides to situations.

MrsChilds 28 9,484

Punctuation Errors

Challenges students to identify and correct punctuation errors in various sentences.

Ms. D 18 1,505

Question Formation

Read the answer and make the question for it.

zsulkiss 40 9,971

Question Forms - Present Simple

Turn the affirmative sentence into a question. (Present simple verbs + present simple 'to be')

Alice.Greenwood 20 50,844

Questions for You

Conversation starters for intermediate students.

marinella.r 27 42,765

Reading in Reverse

?sdrawkcab secnetnes eseht daer uoy naC = Can you read these sentences backwards?

Baamboozle 24 13,383

Rebus, Riddles, and More!

Rebus puzzles use pictures, symbols, and letters to represent a word or words, pay close attention to find the answer!

aaustin 20 2,300

Regular Sentence to Figurative Language

Players need to choose or make a figurative sentence to match the regular sentence.

Melala 17 1,340

Riddles, brain teasers and puns

John CLIC 16 38,198

Riddles for teasing your brain!

Ms Cushway 27 36,939

Sarcasm or Real?

Identify if sarcasm is being used or if the person is being real. Identify sarcasm using context, tone of voice, and non-verbal language clues. Pictures provided for context.

speechiebee77 20 21,278

Say the Missing Words

Each sentence is missing a word, fill in the gap!

mcateachers 16 2,640

Write down words for each category. Even more fun with the timer turned on!

Mrs. B 28 134

Find items around your house or classroom and show them to the class (or in the webcam if virtual)

MissBean 22 3,443

Similes and Metaphors

Are you as sneaky as a fox? Try to describe the meaning of these similes and metaphors.

mmartori 18 5,192

Similes and Metaphors

Are you as sneaky as a fox? Try to describe the meaning of these similes and metaphors.

mmartori 18 5,192

Allacarb 14 20

Imagine the situation and talk about it for one minute.

fcaminop 24 11,726

All of the riddle answers focus on articulation for S blends, Th & R Words

speechtch 24 7,505

Race to write words that match the letter then shout "Stop the Bus!"

Teacher Anna Reis 17 16,139

Story Dice Guess Who

Are they wearing glasses? Do they have brown hair? Are they smiling? - A great spin on the classic Guess Who game!

skjamie25 75 3,967

lolerly 24 858

jean 20 525

Iman42 22 423

Summer Inferences

Read the clue and make an inference about what it is.

Tilly 16 6,338

Superlative Adjectives

Complete with the superlative of the adjectives.

MarciaElizandro 19 18,059

What can you do in a challenging situation? See if you would survive!

rahaf 20 2,393

Synonym Challenge

Give a similar word

awoodruff 16 17,966

Synonyms / Antonyms

Identifying similar or opposite words

Romel 16 13,443

Syntax - Conciseness

This is an exercise on conciseness. What part of the sentence is unnecessary?

dirodor 25 110

One team member looks away and must guess the word. Other team members cannot say the words in the list

Ronan 30 47,809

Describe the word without using the forbidden words (the ones in parentheses)

sofirodriguez3 31 4,857

Describe the word without using the forbidden words (the ones in parentheses)

sofirodriguez3 31 4,857

Guess the word without using one of the taboo words in one of their clues.

Ngoc Anh 18 5,060

Talk for 30 Seconds (Verb Patterns)

Choose the right verb pattern then talk about the topic for 30 seconds

SusanaPersas 34 2,120

Telling time using "past" and "to"

Kaitlyn Matheson 24 71,347

Can you identify these things from the 2000s?

MiaLouise 24 1,602

The Longest Word!

What's the longest word you can think of in each of these categories? The person with the longest word wins each round! Use a timer to make it extra exciting!

willpetley 18 2,593

The Price Is Right (Thanksgiving Edition)

Try to guess the right price for these items!

Mrs. B 33 3,950

The Price Is Right Holiday Edition

Guess the price of these holiday items! If you guess right, you win points!

Mrs. B 40 2,033

The Who, What & Where of October

A simple game answering the questions of who, what and where

dcorrigan 16 1,255

Things and Things

Things dogs are saying when they bark. Things you shouldn't put in your mouth. Who has the best answers for this fun game of things.

MrLee123 36 2,075

Fun word problems for students to read and solve.

work.cyk 20 4,320

Three of a Kind

Conversation game for young students. Name three things related to the topic listed.

shubbell 35 2,458

ESL Practice with the verb 'to be'

Will_MercyCenter 25 87,483

Making sentences, finding mistakes and filling in the missing words

Enjoy Online 35 3,086

Making sentences, finding mistakes and filling in the missing words

Enjoy Online 35 3,086

Say the tongue twisters correctly before the timer goes off

CoachM 25 26,796

A great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency.

bryceloski 21 8,688

Tongue Twisters

Practice your English pronunciation

Roxy 33 42,867

Tongue Twisters

Short tongue twisters - Can you say them?

secsa 24 26,517

Tongue Twisters For Articulation

Articulation tongue twisters for s, sh, ch.

Shafston 16 8,916

Tongue Twisters for Christmas

Can you twist your tongue with these fun Christmas tongue twisters?

English is Fun! 24 8,453

List 3 items in a category, 4 are listed in the answers. If 1 matches - 5 points, 2 match - 10 pts, 3 - 25 pts. Use Options: partial credit. (#3 Primary Version)

Susan Tourdot 30 6,577

Top 4 Answers Are On the Board!

Family Feud meets Outburst: Team names their top 3 answers. 5 points for 1 that matches the responses, 10 for 2, 25 for 3. Use "options" partial credit.

Susan Tourdot 30 2,909

TRANSFORMATIONS FCE

FCE transformations

deleted 26 598

Tricky Tricky Riddles

Can your students answer these tricky riddles? Great for middle school students.

Seval Karanfil 20 4,966

A fun and educational game where you match two-part verbs to complete sentences and learn proper sentence structure.

Cassiana Lara 17 1,538

Unscramble the Endangered Species

Can you guess which endangered animal it is?

Bárbara Ramos 24 5,561

Verb to Be - I, You, We

Complete the statements with the verb to be for I, you and we.

pambravoq 20 16,881

Visualizing and Verbalizing

Visualizing images - pictures level

MissMelanie 17 509

What Are They Doing?

In this game, you look at the pictures and say what the people are doing at the moment using the verbs given.

Luciano Cabral da Silva 20 9,768

Explain what happened in the picture using past continuous and past simple tense. Ex.: He was walking down the stairs when he fell down.

Rob 24 3,660

Using irregular past tense verbs, explain what happened in the gifs

SLPandreaG 26 6,463

What Should I Do?

Social problem solving for various situations in middle school

spoppoff 20 64,759

What Time Is It?

Practice thirty minutes past the hour

Teachergaby 22 9,043

Where is the Dog?

Using the point of reference given, make sentences using prepositions of place. Bonus = Cute dog GIFs!

Mr. Harry 30 12,541

Why not make a question?

Winnipeg93 25 60,861

Choose the correct usage of who, which, what, where, when, whose and why.

teacherstellapr 24 7,210

Can you describe these disastrous gifs?

ewheatley24 18 2,955

Word Formation FCE

Word Formation for FCE

Mari Luz Lavado Martin 62 825

Word Scramble: Jobs

Guess the job titles from scrambled letters. Great for elementary/intermediate students as a warmer for lessons about jobs and careers!

Pedro H 55 18,813

How many new words can you make from the letters? Great for groups or single play.

MrLee123 24 4,932

Are the definitions true or false?

Agulkaapple 19 7,630

Would You Rather

Decisions, decisions - these would you rather questions will make you think!

teacherrebecca93 16 6,618

Yesterday and Today

Technology yesterday compared to technology today

Daneshia Bennett 27 11,699