Catch
This challenging verb
game helps students to practice or revise verb forms. Have the students stand
in a circle. Take a place in the circle and start the game by throwing a ball
to a student. As you throw the ball, say a verb in its base form. The student who
catches the ball must say the past, past participle, plural or 'ing' form of
the verb, depending on which form you want the students to practice. The
student then calls out a new verb as they throw the ball to another student and
so on. If a student fails to say the correct verb form, they are out of the
game and must sit down. You then restart the game with a new verb. If you want
to make the game harder, you could ask the students to say a sentence using the
verb in a particular tense. You could also have the students spell the verb
form.
Classroom Tennis
Here is a fun ESL
game for practicing irregular verb forms. Divide the students into two teams (A
and B). Have one student from each team (Player A and B) come to the front of
the class and sit facing each other. You act as umpire. Player A thinks of an irregular
verb and serves it by saying the past participle form of the verb, e.g. begun.
Player B responds to the serve with the past form of the verb, e.g. began.
Player A then gives the base form of the verb, e.g. begin. Player B then serves
by choosing a new irregular verb. The serve is always the past participle form
of the verb. When a player makes a mistake or is too slow to respond, the other
player scores a point for their team and the correct verb form is written on
the board. For example, if Player A served with the wrong past participle form
(e.g. began), Player B scores a point. The game would then continue with Player
B responding to the serve, giving the past form of the verb. The round finishes
when a player gets three points. The two players' scores are then written on
the board and a new player from each team comes to the front and so on. The
team with the most points at the end of the game wins. This game can also be
played with adjectives, comparatives and superlatives as well as countries, nationalities
and languages.
The Verb Tree
Here is an
imaginative verb game to help students practice or review verb meanings and
sentence structure. Draw a large tree with many branches on the board. Ask the
students what is missing from the tree and elicit the word 'leaves'. Tell the
students that they are going to provide leaves for the tree. Give each student
a post-it note or piece of paper cut into the shape of a leaf. Divide the
students into two teams (A and B). Tell the students to each think of a
different verb and write it on their paper. The team members then discuss what
verb each student should write. You could also ask the students to choose verbs
from a list if there are specific verbs you want them to practice. When the
students have finished, invite a student from Team A to come up to the board
with their leaf. The student says the verb aloud and sticks the verb on the
tree. Team B then has one minute to make a meaningful sentence with the verb
and write it on the board. If they are able to do this, the team scores one
point. A student from Team B then comes up to the board with their leaf and
Team A tries to make a sentence and so on. This continues until all the verbs
are on the tree. The team with the most points wins the game. As an extension,
ask students to work in pairs and use some of the verbs or sentences on the
board to create a story. You can set the number of verbs or sentences to be
included and award a prize for the best story. This game can be used to
practice or revise a variety of language and vocabulary. You could have an
adjective tree, a sports tree, a food tree, etc. You could also choose a theme
for the tree such as Christmas or Halloween. The procedure is the same.
Things we go
In this ESL verb
game, students brainstorm regular and irregular verbs related to a topic. Start
by reviewing regular and irregular verbs with the class. Next, divide the class
into teams of three or four. Write a 'Things we do...' topic on the board, e.g.
'Things we do with our brains'. Tell the students that they have two minutes to
write down as many verbs as they can that relate to the topic on the board.
Working together, the students brainstorm and write down the verbs on a piece
of paper, e.g. consider, dream, imagine, forgive, guess, etc. When the two
minutes are up, have the teams swap papers for marking. Teams score one point
for each appropriate verb. Then, write another 'Things we do...' topic on the
board and so on. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Verb Connection
In this strategic
'Connect 4' style verb game, students practice making sentences and questions
using various verb forms. Divide the students into two teams. Draw a six-by-six
grid on the board. Write different verbs and verb forms in the squares. Add a
question mark to some of the base form verbs. Have the teams play a quick game
of rock-paper-scissors to see which team is going to play first and who will be
O or X. Have one student from the first team come up to the board and choose a
verb from the grid. Working alone, the student then tries to use the verb
correctly in a sentence. The sentence must be in the same tense as the verb in
the square. If a student chooses a verb that has a question mark next to it,
the student makes a question using the verb. If the student makes an
appropriate sentence or question, the team wins the square and an O or X is
placed accordingly. Then, it's the other teams turn to play. The first team to
get four squares in a row wins the game. If neither team manages to do this,
the team with the most squares wins.
Visual Verbs
In this entertaining
verb game, students guess irregular verbs from mimes and then write down the
verb's three forms. Divide the students into two teams (A and B). Draw three
columns on the board for each team. Label the columns: Base, Past, Past
participle. Choose a student from Team A to come to the front of the class.
Give the student a base form irregular verb. The student then has one minute to
mime the verb for Team A to guess. If a student from Team A correctly guesses
the verb, that student writes the base, past, and past participle forms of the
verb in the columns unaided. If Team A is unable to guess the verb after one
minute, Team B has one chance to steal the round by correctly guessing the
verb. If they do this, the student who gave the answer writes down the three
forms of the verb in their team's columns. A student from Team B then comes to
the front of the class and so on. At the end of the game, award one point for
every correctly spelled and formed verb. The team with the most points wins the
game.
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