Category — Card Games

Keep class interesting by playing this game during your lecture or review time!

Skill Level: All Skill Levels.

Materials: A-10 and two face cards from deck of cards.

Instruction:
Class is divided into teams. To play the game, student is allowed to choose a card at random from the deck. If it is a number card (A-10), student’s team receives that many points. (To make the game more interesting I multiply each card’s value by ten. e.g. Ace=10 points, 2=20 pts, and so on.) [Read more →]

Bring America’s favorite game show to your ESL classroom.

Skill Level: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced; students must be able to read to play the game.

Materials Needed:
Deck of specially labeled cards.
Blackboard (to keep score).

Instructions:
I play the game with cards because I’ve not been able to make a wheel that’s easy to move and durable enough to withstand my students. If you can come up with a good wheel design, let me know!
Teacher prepares a deck of cards with the same sorts of labels as the wheel on Wheel Of Fortune–some have dollar amounts, some are “Bankrupt!” cards, and the rest given whatever special label you want (Lose A Turn, Pick Again, Sing A Song, etc.). [Read more →]