A great vocabulary revision game:

1. Divide the class into two teams each standing in line at the board.
2. Give them a topic like food and drink, sports, countries etc (they must be very large lexical
sets).
3. The student at the front on each line runs to the board and must write a word in this lexical
set beginning with A on the board.
4. She then hands the chalk or pen to the next person in the row (and runs to the back of the
line), who adds a word beginning with B until they reach Z.
5. If they cannot think of a word beginning with a particular letter they can leave a space, but
the team with most words at the end is the winner.
Example of a board during a game:

Find an English magazine or newspaper and cut out about 40 words ensuring you have a balance of
parts of speech and stick them onto a sheet of paper in no particular order something like this:

Give out copies of the sheets to students in groups of up to four. Print this set of words.
They have seven (depending on level and complexity of task) minutes to create: one sentence with
three words, one sentence with four words etc depending on level.
Sentences may be like this:
3 words - Radio is free.

4 words - Most parents are happy.

5 words - Cows enjoy politics in April.

This game encourages creative use of language and after the sentences are produced, the students
could choose one and write a story or newspaper article that this sentence is a title or headline to.

1)Ensure every student has a blank sheet of paper.

2)Ask ONE getting to know you type question for every student in the class. Students write the
answer to your question and pass their paper to the next student. By the time this stage is over, each
student should have a sheet of paper with a series of different answers, all written by different
students.
3)Take the papers in and distribute at random. The students now have to mix and mingle in order to
find out who wrote each answer on thier sheet of paper, and write the name next to it.
4)For feedback, ask 'What do we know about Juan/Emma/Zdenek etc...
What was the last film you saw?
Who is your favourite singer?
Who is your favourite actor/actress?
What's your favourite thing to do on Sundays?
What's the name of the town you were born in?
When's your birthday?
Who is your favourite sports personality?
Whats your favourite television programme?
If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?
What's the most interesting country you've ever visited?
What were you doing this time yesterday?
How many cousins do you have?

1. What was the last film you saw?

2. Who is your favourite singer?
3. Who is your favourite actor/actress?
4. What's your favourite thing to do on Sundays?
5. What's the name of the town you were born in?
6. When's your birthday?
7. Who is your favourite sports personality?
8. Whats your favourite television programme?
9. If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?
10. What's the most interesting country you've ever visited?
11. What were you doing this time yesterday?
12. How many cousins do you have?