This warm-up or time-killer game tests the students on the meaning. It helps bring about awareness of vocabulary they may already know, as well as introduce new vocabulary.
Unlike ‘air guitaring and drumming’, Spelling requires a skill. Students ‘air fingerspell’ English words in hopes their teammates can guess the word that is being spelt.
Students must respond to questions to sit down.
Students toss two balls attached to each other around the room while asking questions.
Students pass a ball to music and revise questions or vocabulary.
With their back to the class, students try to guess who is speaking.
Hitting students and teachers is wrong, eh? Well, this game not only encourages it, but students review recent vocabulary while committing this atrocious act.
A row race where students attempt to fill in as many body parts on a stick figure, within five minutes, as possible. Usually a lot of fun for students as they learn the correct spelling of various body parts.
Students work to make as many words as possible from a 3x3 grid on the chalkboard.
Students aim to think of many words associated with a topic.
Just like the cogs in a clock, students must work together to remember the previous students’ words, actions and/or sounds.
Students race to answer questions in hopes of sitting down before their friends.
In this fast-paced gesture game, students throw a Doink ball around the room acting out various adjectives.
どんだけぇ~! is said when the speaker is surprised about something done or said. It basically means Really?!?! In this どんだけぇ~ warm-up game, students blindly bet money that they can spell words.
Students help the ALT guess the words written on the chalkboard.
Students compete in an exciting row race to see which row can create the most pictures with their matching words in 5-10 minutes.
Students try to understand the English riddles and solve the problems.
A timer is started and students race to write words on the chalkboard and not to be the student holding the chalk when the timer sounds.
Shiritori is the name of a popular Japanese game, whereas one person says a word and the next person must say a word that starts with the last letter of the word before them: dog, gate, each, hand, etc.
This variation of the Criss-Cross game has students listening intently to easy questions in hopes to sit down.
Students slap each other’s hands for not speaking English.
Students work in teams to spell words to sit down the first.
Students play Spin the Bottle to review a grammar point or to wrap up a lesson's activity.
Students think about objects in relationship to shape.
Using squares of toilet paper, students offer up bits of information about themselves.
Students play Janken with you/JTE and the winners, losers, and/or tie’er’s must stand up and face the barrage of questions.
Students pound on their desks and while practicing various English target vocabulary.
Get students predicting and practicing "you have" in this rhythmical one-on-one game.