TEACH ENGLISH: The New Fall 2010 Semester!

HEART, GUN, BOMB! was the first ESL Game that I
ever learned. I was lucky enough to have my older
brother already working in Taiwan with his then
girlfriend; now wife.

He taught me how to play Gun, Heart, Bomb! Version 1.

Over the years...I could tell that the game was becoming
stale to me; so I made a few changes.

HOW TO PLAY GUN, HEART, BOMB! Version 2.0

Draw a big grid on the board. The bigger the better!

You will write the numbers one to ten on the top of the
grid (as in the video below). And you will write the letters
A - J in the far left boxes (as in the video below).

You will divide the class into two or more teams.
Name each team.
Write the students in each team names under their team
name.
Give each student an equal amount of hit points ( 3 - 5 is
best ).

Get every student to stand up. After they answer one question
they may have a seat. When all of the students are in their seats
you may begin the game.

Ask one student from one team which box he/she would like to pick.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Before class (during your prepartion time ~ draw
the same grid on the board on a piece of paper. You will have to fill in the
boxes with the items.)

The items that you can use are:

A gun, a heart, a bomb, a tank, a flamethrower, a helicopter and feel free
to add new items.

A gun = the player that choose that box can shoot one hit point off an opposing
players hit point.
You can also have double guns and triple guns.

A heart = the player that choose this box can give one hit point to a member of
his/her team.
You can also have double hearts and triple hearts.

A bomb = which ever student choose this box will lose a hit point, because the
bomb will explode his/her hit point.
There are also double bombs and triple bombs.

A tank = a tank can shoot one player on the opposing team and destroy three
of that players points.

A flamethrower will hit every player once on one team.

A helicopter will destroy two hit points from one team.
These helicopters are the most valuable items in the
game...so they should only be one or two in the entire
game.

The way to win the game is to be the last team with
hit points remaining.

TEACH ENGLISH: ESL GAME #4

Attention: Today is your lucky day! God is on your side now...
and I have just learned how to use the Squidoo properly.
I bet that you stopped scrolling to read this...
because it is so beautiful.

"You take a block from the bottom and you put it on top!"

GAME: JENGA

Divide your class into two or more teams.

You need to ask every student a question, and he/she
has to answer it correctly before he/she has a turn.

If the student makes the Jenga Tower collapse ~ every other team
gets one point.

This is a great game to play.
All of the students love to play this game.
It is a lot of fun, and it will eat up some time at the end of
your class

I worked at one school in the evenings after my full time job twice a week for about half a month.

I would warm up with this game for every single class.

The students love this game. It helps improve the students spelling, and it also
helps them to learn how to participate in class.

You, the teacher, will think of a word or words.

Draw little horizontal lines that represent each letter.

Divide the class into two teams.
One team will be the Red team and the
other team will be the Blue team.

If a Red team member guesses the correct
letter ~ then you will write that letter where it
should go in the same color as that student's
team color.

When the puzzle is finished... you will be able to
count how many Red letters and how many Blue
letters there are.

Write the amount of letters each team guessed.

You can keep playing this game for as long as you want.

When you decide that it is time to do something else...
add up all of the scores for each team ~ and the winning
team will be the team with the highest score!

This is an ESL Game that I learned in the last year.

When I heard how to play it... I thought that it wouldn't work.
But, it turned out that this is one of my most popular games
for almost every single class.

To play this game... first you will need to show the four corners
of the room to your students. Name each corner:
Corner 1
Corner 2
Corner 3
and Corner 4

The teacher will close his/her eyes and count to ten.
While he/she is counting the students will quietly walk
to one of the four corners.

When the teacher finishes counting to ten...he/she will
pick one corner.

If any of your ESL students are in that corner ~ they are out.
They must sit down in their seats until the next game.

Keep playing the game until their is only one student left.
That one student is the winner!

This ESL Game is basically the same game as
Heart, Gun, Bomb! Version 2.0, but this game
has a twist to it.

Instead of the students picking a box in a giant
grid... they will draw a card from the top of the
deck. The card that they draw will reveal which
item they will get.

For you advanced ESL Teachers - you can make
up what each card represents. If you are not sure
what to do... do this:

Ace = 1 Helicopter ( A helicopter can shoot everybody on one team twice )
King = 1 Flamethrower ( A flamethrower can shoot everybody on one team once )
Queen = Triple Heart ( 1 heart = Plus one hit point for someone / Triple Heart = Plus 3 Hit points )
Jack = Triple Gun ( 1 Gun can shoot one hit point of another player / Triple Gun can shoot 3 Hit points )
Ten = Double Gun ( This item can shoot one player two times )
Nine = Single Gun ( This item can shoot one player one time)
Eight = Single Gun
Seven = Single Gun
Six = Single Heart
Five = Single Heart
Four = Bomb ( A bomb will explode and destroy 1 hit point from whoever picked this card )
Three = Double Bomb
Two = Triple Bomb

This ESL Game is another Heart, Gun, Bomb! Game...
but this time instead of using the teacher's answer
key or using cards...
You will use Dice.

1 = A bomb ( minus one for whoever rolls this number )
2 = A heart ( plus one for whoever rolls this number )
3 = A gun ( a gun can shoot an another teams player )
4 = A flamethrower ( a flamethrower can shoot everybody on one opposing team one time)
5 = A tank ( a tank can shoot one player twice )
6 = A helicopter ( a helicopter can shoot everybody on an opposing team two times )

The game is over when only one team has remaining hit points...
that team is the winning team!

TEACH ENGLISH: ESL GAME #11

This ESL teaching game is great to play anytime during class;
whether it is in the beginning for a warm up ESL activity;
or in the middle to revive your students (probably because
you just studied something hard and/or boring) or at the
end to send the students home happy.

ESL GAMES TIP - Always play your ESL Games near the end of your class so that the students go home happy.

The teacher will say to the class, "Change seats if...
You are a Boy."
* Now all of the Boys will have to stand up and "Change
Seats."

Next, the ESL Teacher might say," Change seats if...
you like to eat Pizza."
* Now, every student that LIKES pizza will have to stand
up and change seats.

And the game will continue like this until the teacher
wants to do something else.

There are no winners and no losers in this game. It
is just for fun and to practice their listening and it
helps build the students vocabulary.

Some other things that the ESL Teacher could
say would be...

CHANGE SEATS IF...

- you are wearing blue
- you have a dog
- you are wearing glasses
- you have black hair
- your dad has a black car
- you have a pencil case
- you are wearing a jacket
- you like to play Wii
- you are wearing something blue

***There are so many different things
that you could say... so, just have fun!***

You can keep on saying different things and the students will have to change their seats if.....

This ESL Game is one of the classic games.

You will draw the large grid on the board 5 x 5.

The middle box is a free box - which means that
everybody can use it.

You will tell the students to copy the grid onto
a sheet of paper.

Tell the students to write the numbers 1 - 24
in the boxes. The students can only write each
number one time.

When all of the students are ready to start...
the ESL teacher will call out a number.
The students will then cross off that number
on their grid.

The teacher will continue to call out numbers
until one of the students is able to make a
straight line vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

The first student to make a BINGO wins the game
and you can award that student with some sort
of prize!

This ESL Game is one of my favorite games to
play with the students. This game can be stretched
out for the entire class if you want to do that...

I don't really want to write how to play this game...
because there is a Youtube video directly below
this article which will explain it much better.