Grammar Games Esl
Grammar Rule Examples. I speak English well. I play tennis badly. I do my homework correctly. To create adverbs we normally add -ly: quick - quickly slow - slowly. These English Grammar Games are listed in alphabetical order: A vs An - The difference between A and AN; Adjectives ending in -ED and -ING - The difference between adjectives ending in -ed and adjectives ending in -ing; Adjectives with Prepositions - which prepositions go with different adjectives and the different meanings and contexts of them. The category could include group games that you play in a classroom or with a language partner, grammar review games played online or on your phone, or even grammar practice games that you play in your head in spare moments. In this article I'll give a brief overview of some easy grammar games that you can try.
ESL INTERACTIVE GRAMMAR GAMES
We offer a rich variety of grammar games according to grammar topics. There are grammar games like : Snakes and Ladders grammar games, Basketall, Football, Hangman, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games and more to help practice grammar.
In the grammar games below, your students will explore parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives, how to tell a complete sentence from a fragment sentence, and much more. Learning grammar may seem unimportant to some, but it can make all the difference in your student's ability to communicate effectively. Grammar Tutorial: Easily confused words: Noun Explorer. Adjective Adventure. Panda Parts of Speech. Make grammar and learning fun!
Present Tenses Games
- Present Tenses Hangman Game
- Action Verbs Picrture - Catching Game :
- Daily Routines Sequencing Exercise - Sequencing Game Exercise
Past Simple, Past Progressive Present Perfect Tense Games
- Past Simple Snakes and Ladders - Regular/Irregular Verbs - Snakes and Ladders
- Past Progressive vs. past simple tenses - Snakes and Ladders Game
- Formulaic Expressions - Snakes and Ladders Games
- Intermediate Level Review Snakes and Ladders Game
- Irregular Past Simple Verb Tense Quiz Show -Jeopardy Quiz
- Verb Tenses - Past Simple, Future, Present Perfect - Jeopardy Classroom Game
Conjunctions Games
Passive Vs. Active Voice Games
Articles (the/a/an) - Definite/Indefinite Games
- Articles - 'a, an, the' - Snakes and Ladders Game
Modals / Modal Verbs Games
Prepositions & Conjunctions Games
- Prepositions Game - For Elementary to Pre-intermediate Levels - Spin off Game
ESL grammar games can be used to facilitate the repeated use of certain target structures, this is vital to the learning and retention of new grammar forms. Grammar games come in many forms, but they all have this single aim at their heart, to repeatedly and accurately use or manipulate language structures to achieve a specific aim.
Grammar games and activities by form
I have decided to start grouping activities together on single pages. This will enable me to post shorter ideas which don’t warrant a whole post.
Present Simple
Lots of ideas for presenting and practising the present perfect including forms of to be, find someone who, adverbs of frequency, third-person interviews.
Grammar Games For Middle School
Present Continuous
Activities in this section include charades, describing clothing, describing pictures and video scenes and asking about activities.
Past Simple
Fun activities to help students learn irregular verbs, question formation and past simple time markers.
Past Continuous
Using the past continuous to talk about what was happening at specific times and instructions for the popular Alibi activity.
Present Perfect
Lots of activities for practising the present perfect in the contexts of unfinished time, life experience and connection to the present.
Present Perfect Continuous
Activities for practising the present perfect continuous to talk about ongoing activities and for distinguishing since and for
Past Perfect
Activities for practising the past perfect including explaining away perplexing predicaments.
Future Forms
Activities for practising future form present continuous, going to and will. Includes making arrangements, talking about travel, making predictions and the popular fortune-telling activity
Passive Voice
A few activities for practising the passive voice.
There is / are & Quantifiers
Includes Kim’s game, what’s in the fridge? and describing a common room.
Conditionals
Activities for practising all the conditionals including superstitions, Murphy’s law, regrets, class surveys and complete the sentence.
Comparatives and Superlatives
Activities include pair comparisons and adjective dice games.
Reported Speech
Includes the crazy questions activity.
Tag Questions
Activities for practising tag questions.
Grammar Games For Kids
Other Grammar Games & Activities
Board games
A selection of board games to give students practice of using various tenses and other structures.
Crosswords
Crosswords can be used to test your students’ knowledge of verb forms.
Four in a row
A printable three-person game in which students compete to join up four suitable answers.
Grammar photosets
In our Teaching with Technology section, you can find some photosets which help to illustrate some different grammar points.
Lying games
Deceit can be so much fun.
Find someone who …
An extremely useful and flexible mingling activity. A great way to get students up on their feet and talking to their classmates. Works as the perfect, first lesson ice breaker.
Tic Tac Toe
A quick and easy way to review various grammatical structures including irregular verbs, adverbs and verbs which are followed by infinitives or gerunds.
Grammar Games For Kids
Preposition constructions
This activity gets students using prepositions of position to copy their classmates’ creations. It’s more than worth the little bit of preparation and gathering of equipment that’s needed beforehand.