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			Stand up sequences This is a good game to practise any standard sequence such as numbers 1 – 30, days of the week, months of the year, the alphabet etc.
			Gobbledygook This is a fun game for practising intonation, and also dialogue building.
			Happy graph This is a valuable warmer activity for any teenage class.
			Battleships Download a board so you can play this classic game to practise vowel sounds and numbers
			The yes and no game The only rule in this game is that you can't say 'yes' or 'no'.
			The press conference This is great for practising question forms and can be especially useful for lower levels.
			The chat room If you're doing a last minute cover class this might be a good game for you - pre-historic internet chat...
			Conditional chain This is a game is good to revise and practise structures in the conditionals.
			I went to the shops... This is a classic memory game where each person adds a new item to the list in alphabetical order.
			Listening race This is a fun game for practising listening skills and can be used to revise a wide range of language.
			Talking topics You can print off a board game that you can adapt to use in your classes according to the topics you have recently covered. It is excellent for fluency practice.
			Taboo This is a popular word game that can easily be played in class.
			Word snakes This is a simple word game to start of finish a lesson. You can adapt it to any topic you’re doing or one you want to revise. A word snake is simply a chain of words where the following word starts with the last letter of the previous word. Here are a few examples.
			Mastermind This is great for those logical-mathematical thinkers. Think of a word (start with a four letter word until you get the hang of it, then you can do it with longer words) and mark four lines, like you would in a game of hang-man.
			Gap fill gamble You need an envelope full of small bits of paper. Chop up a few pages of scrap paper for this. Students compete against one another in pairs.
			In the Teacher’s Shoes This is great for the first class with a new group or when you come back to class after a holiday or even after a weekend.
			Lost your voice This is like a role-play activity with no dialogue! It needs a little bit of preparation time for you to write out the ‘problem cards’. You can imagine any scenario where functional language would be used, such as at the train station, in a restaurant or at the shops.
			Scrabble The more you use the letters, the more uses you’ll find for them.
			One word stories This activity is extremely simple. Each student adds a word to create a group story. Despite the simplicity it can be really challenging and I would only use it with higher levels.
			Writing consequences This is a fun activity to create a group story. Each student adds one stage to the story then folds the paper to cover the information and passes the paper to the student on the right.
			Telephone wires This is the classic children’s party game sometimes known as ‘Chinese whispers’.
			Change places ... This is a great activity to get students moving about and practice some vocabulary or sentence structures.
			Concentration This is a good game for high-energy groups when you need to get them all sitting down and on task. They really have to concentrate to stay in the game.
			Stop the bus This is a really vocabulary revision game that can be adapted to a range of levels.
			Chain drawings This is a fun activity which can be used with all groups, just select a follow-up activity that is appropriate for the age and level of the class.
			Ruckzuck This is a brilliant game for intermediate level students. The original idea came from a German TV show.
			Games for question practice Here you can find four games to help your students practise word formation.
			Word games Here you can find 2 word games which will help your students to remember their vocabulary as well as have some fun.
			Christmas games This is a selection of games suitable for young learners and teens around Christmas time.
			Story telling grid This is a fun activity to get your students speaking and revising vocabulary in a creative way.
			The dating game This is an entertaining way of getting your students talking and to get them to use vocabulary related to personality and appearance.
			Dark and stormy night This is a fun way to develop your students' creative writing.
			Coffee pot This is a fun games that helps to revise and consolidate the meaning of verbs.
			Hot seat This is a very useful game for revising vocabulary and getting students to practice explaining the meaning of words they don't know.
			Grammar auction This is a fun way of revising grammar points with your students.
			Horse race dictation This is a fun activity in which students try to predict the order of words in a jumbled sentence before listening for the answer.