When to Play After all the day’s planned lessons have been completed, it is not uncommon to have a few minutes to spare before the bell rings. Or, sometimes you need to divide up a long lesson with a quick, energetic break.

Use these time slots to invigorate students and enhance their vocabulary comprehension with mini games! These games are intentionally designed to require minimal preparation and basic rules so that you can quickly choose one and immediately get playing. The games can be used to review the current unit’s words and older ones as well, and they serve as an excellent way to informally check for understanding.

Free grade level word lists from VocabularySpellingCity for use with interactive games and printable worksheets to practice. Grade Level Lists. Smith And Nephew 500xl Service Manual here. Fun Games & Activities for Teaching English in Junior High School. Bringing games into the classroom can be a great way. This activity is for junior high.

These games can also be expanded for longer play and review, which may be especially useful in after-school and summer-school sessions. Vary your games for increased interest; students may grow bored of the same game each week. It is always useful to model an example of game play before the game begins. The games are listed in order of critical thinking required; the earlier games review the basics and the later games require deeper critical thinking. Simple List The Rules: Divide students into two (or more) teams.

Give each team one minute to list as many words as possible from the current unit on a piece of paper. The team with the most words wins. Materials Needed: • Blank paper • Pens How to Expand the Game: • The team with the most words must explain the definition of each word. If they miss a definition, the other team can take over explaining those definitions to win.

Look Out For: • If you have a word wall, cover it during this game. Possible Modifications for ELLs and Students with Special Needs: • Provide students with the first letter of the words or pictures of the words before they complete their list. Conversation Competition The Rules: Assign each student a partner.

When the teacher says go, the students stand up and have a specific amount of time to talk with their partners on any appropriate subject. They must use at least 10 of the unit’s words in their conversation and check them off as they use them. When they’ve used all 10, they sit down. The teacher should circulate the classroom during the game to engage students in conversation and keep them on task.

The first students to finish win a prize, but only if they share their conversation with the class and used the words correctly. If not, the next group shares, and so forth. Materials Needed: • Unit’s word list for each student (can also use index of book) How to Expand the Game: • After the game, you might ask multiple student groups who were having strong, vocabulary-rich discussions to share their conversation with the class.

• If students have been sitting for a long time prior to the start of the game, you can encourage the partner groups to walk around the room together while they talk. Look Out For: • Make sure that students are not using words to discuss inappropriate matters or insult each other. • Make sure students are using words correctly. Possible Modifications for ELLs and Students with Special Needs: • Partner ELLs with native speakers. • Use a shorter list of words.

• Give students specific topics to discuss. Erase a Word The Rules: Divide students into two teams. Write two lists of unit words on the board (one for each member of each team). Each team forms a line leading to the board. When given the signal, the first child on each team goes up to the board, points at the first word in the team’s column, and reads aloud that word. If the student reads the word correctly, he or she erases that word.

The student then moves to the back of his or her team’s line. The first team to erase all the words on their list wins. Materials Needed: • Chalk or marker • Eraser How to Expand the Game: • Instead of pronunciation, students could say the definition of the word, give an example of the word, correct a misspelled word, etc., in order to erase it.

Look Out For: • Make sure students in line don’t call out the answers. Possible Modifications for ELLs and Students with Special Needs: • Review the pronunciation of words before the game begins. Vocab Shot The Rules: Divide the class into two teams. Each member of the team is asked a vocabulary question (definition, spelling, pronunciation, etc.). If the student gets the answer right, he wins a point for his team, and he has the chance of getting another question if he’s able to make a basketball shot.