memory cards

Create a set of cards (20-30) which form pairs. Shuffle the cards and put them face down on the table. Students can in turns turn one card face down and find it's pair. If they don't succeed they put the cards face down again and the turn goest to the next student.

pictionary

The task is to draw a word/book name/film/sentence in an unusual and funny way. The others have to guess.

Also more complicated rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary

who wants to be a millionaire?

Create a version of that game with your own questions using the special flash program.

what was the question?

You give the answer to the question and the students have to think of that question.
Example:
"Red" - "What is the color of that car?"
"Fast and shiny" - "What is your bike like?"
"Black and not moving" - "How would you describe a dead fly?"

warmonger

You, the teacher, may need a dictionary do this activity.

• Choose a word which is long, difficult, and unknown to the students, a good word to begin with is: warmonger.
• Without using a dictionary, your students write down a definition. (They can work out the definition in groups of three).  Allow them a few minutes to think and write.
• Collect the definitions and read them aloud.
• When you have finished reading, they will have to vote which of those is the correct one. (It doesn't matter if none of them is the correct one) 
• After they have voted and none of the groups guessed the meaning you read the correct one aloud.

The idea of this game is to let students be creative and practice writing skills.
Then you can have the students to discuss their writings.

Here is a good list of words: http://yubanet.com/oddnews/100-Funniest-Words-in-English.php#.UXEh4qK-2So

bragging

You make up about 20-30 sentences in Present Perfect describing various activities one would share to brag. For example: "I've eaten lunch with Al Gore".

"Spielberg has asked me to play in his next movie". Students draw a slip of paper with a statement like that, he/she says it aloud to the group and they try to outdo him/her by thinking up a statement which would be more impressive. It might look something like this:

Student1: "I've eaten lunch with Al Gore"
S2: So what? I've eaten lunch with Bill Clinton!"
S3: So what? I've eaten lunch with Al Gore and Bill Clinton"
S4: So what? I've eaten Gore and Clinton for lunch"

secret code

You can write some messages using secret code. The students' task is to decode it using (or not using) the given algorithm.

question + basket

You have a basket in which students should through balls made out of papers. If they miss - they should answer a question. 

name six

This game is fun and challenging at the same time. It can be adapted for virtually any subject and any grade level. It allows the students to review material they've learned, without having to get out a pencil and paper and answer questions from the text.

• Arrange 6 chairs in a circle and choose one person, the teacher or another student, to stand outside the circle.
• Give someone in the circle a stuffed animal, the funnier the animal the better!
• The person outside the circle states what the person holding the animal has to name six of.
• The person then starts moving the animal around the circle and the other players pass it around.
• The player must name six of the objects before the animal gets back to him or her.

For example, let's say that you have just finished a vocabulary unit on animals. The person standing outside the group may say something like,"Name six animals that have fur." The person sitting in the circle begins namimg six animals and at the same time, the stuffed animal is being passed around the circle. If the player cannot name 6 animals with fur by the time the stuffed animal reaches him, he has lost and it's his turn to stand outside the group and stunt the other students.

balda

Making words out of letters of a different word. For example:


R E T R I B U T I O N
return tribute iron notion note tone rib tube bruit tent tribe bur button rent burin nob bite burr run route tire tore bent bet bonnet rub nib net nub bin nut bit rube ruin rob rot unit union unite tier tie tin tint tone toe brute burn brunt butt butter riot tot tenet tenure terrier retro bone boot born bout totter tote tour bore

song puzzle

For this exercise you will need the lyrics of a song in English.You will need several copies, one for each student .Cut the lines of the song .The students will try to put the song in order.You will play the song as many times as necessary.The student who finishes first is the winner.

four letter words

1.-The teacher writes a four-letter word (not a bad word but word made up four letters)on the board.
For example: TIME

2.-Students will take turns generating words from the first one.The idea is to change only one letter but generate a miningful word.

TEACHER.-TIME
STUDENT1.-DIME

3.-Any letter can be change.Only one at a time, but not on the same place consecutively. Example:
TEACHER.- TIME
STUDENT1.- DIME
STUDENT2.- LIME (Wrong you should change any other letter but not on the same place consecutively).
TEACHER.- TIME
STUDENT1.- DIME
STUDENT2.- DOME
STUDENT3.- COME
STUDENT4.- CAME
STUDENT5.- CANE
Etc.

end of story

You provide the end of the story and the student have to tell it from the beginning.
Eg:
...and I was left with a pineapple and a box of lizards.
...and that's why she will never eat caviar again.
...he closed that box and turned the lughts off.

bingo

Make a list of 20 words. Ask the student to draw a grid with 16 squares (4x4) and write one of the words in each square. You then mix all the words and start picking them up at random and callig them out. When the students hears the word, he must cross it out from the grid. The winner is the one who crosses the whole row first.

pass that pillow

The people stand in the circle. They are divided into two teams as follows: a-b-a-b-a-b etc. Each team has a pillow and when you give a signal, they have to pass that pillow from member to member as quick as possible. Their goal is to "catch" the pillow from the second team. 

guess the word

Someone thinks of a word and gives the first letter. The others have to guess the word by asking the "yes/no" questions.

word search

the price is right

An activity to practice numbers.
You show the pictures with different onjects - cars, computers, clothing etc. And the people have to guess what is their price.