For a quick and easy way to flick through the games of this site, get your paws on your very own printer-friendly copy of our resource books. Each book contains over 20 games from the pages of this site, as well as advice from yours truly, and every game has been tried and tested in our own English classroom, and is proven to be fun and effective in enrichening the learning experience.
Book 1 : Short Games (Colour Edition) and (Black and white Edition)
This book, the first of the series, is intended to be used as a reference for teachers of children between the ages of 3 to 15 and would be especially useful to teachers where English is their second language. Each book introduces games and activities that can be used in an ESL classroom.
The 20 games of this book (plus 5 supplementary games : Pairs Beware, Zoom Out, What’s Behind the Eyes, Shishima, Four Player Tic-Tac-Toe) are compiled from our short games, and are intended to last 5 to 10 minutes, and are therefore well suited for use as warm up activities.
This books was written during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 when many teachers found themselves suddenly thrust into teaching online classes without prior experience and were therefore required to relearn their own teaching methods. And for this reason the focus has been on, but not limited to, games that can also be played online.
Games and instructions included within this ebook:
Card Games
Higher or Lower : Page 5 What’s Missing? : Page 6 Slow Reveal : Page 7 Card Push : Page 8 Card Slam : Page 9
Pen and Paper Games
Noughts and Crosses / Tic-Tac-Toe : Page 10-11 Tapatan : Page 12-13 Hangman : Page 14 2 Minutes A to Z : Page 15 Picture Guess : Page 16 Pull the Petal : Page 17 Categories : Page 18-19
Active Games
Textbook Races : Page 20 Classic Marbles : Page 21 Shove Ha’Penny : Page 22-23 Tabletop Curling : Page 24-26 Hot Potato : Page 28 Four Cups : Page 29 Crash Janken : Page 30 Tabletop Bowling : Page 31-32
*Plus additional 5 games
Book 2 : Longer games (Black and white Edition)
This book, the second of the series, is intended to be used as a reference for teachers of children between the ages of 3 to 15 and would be especially useful to teachers where English is their second language. Each book introduces games and activities that can be used in an ESL classroom.
The 20 games of this book are compiled from our longer games, and are intended to last 15 to 20 minutes, and are therefore well suited to drilling the target language.
These books was written during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 when many teachers found themselves suddenly thrust into teaching online classes without prior experience and were therefore required to relearn their own teaching methods. And for this reason my focus has been on, but not limited to, games that can also be played online.
Games and instructions included within this ebook:
Card games
Concentration : Page 3 Flashcard Betting : Pages 4-5 Bluff : Page 6 Three, Five, Seven : Page 7 Spoons : Page 8
Pen and paper games
Battleships / Calendar Battleships : Pages 9-11 ABC Bingo : Pages 12-13 Battle bingo : Pages 14-15 Guess the Face : Pages 16-19 4 Galore : Pages 20-21 Squares : Pages 22-23 Ghost leg (Amidakuji) : Pages 24-26 Snakes and Ladders : Page 27-28 Frankenstein Monster Faces : Pages 29-31 Five Field Kono : Pages 32-33
Active games
Proximity Marbles : Page 34 Flick disk : Page 35 Fishing : Pages 36-37 Race to find it : Page 38 Up Jenkins : 39