Verb Forms Game - Charade & Board Race

This ESL activity helps students to review their knowledge about three forms of word (bare infinitive, past tense, and past participle). I've tried this in my class and my student loved it! This is a recommended ESL games without any preparation, all you need to have are only a white board and two board markers. This is how you do it.

Preparation

1. Divide the class into group of ten
2. Ask every member of the group to write a verb (bare infinitive), so a group will have a list consists of ten verbs.

How to play the game:

1. Choose a person from each group to do the charade and decide which play first
2. Let the first charade player acts out the first verb of other group's list
3. When his/her teammate success guessing the verb, one of the teammate need to write the three verbs forms of the verb on the whiteboard. Continue until the player acts out all of the verbs on the list.
4. Do the same with the other group.

This English class game really suggested for big class, about 20 students, but it works as well with some modification. If you teach small class, less than 10 students, you can make them work together and you provide the list.

Overall review:

Level      : Beginner to Intermediate

Time       : 10-20 minutes

Preparation: almost no preparation needed! only whiteboard , paper, pen, and board-marker! Suitable for last-minute activity 

Engagement : 4.5/5

TELL MY STORY ( ESL SPEAKING IDEA FOR FIRST MEETING / ICE BREAKER)

"Good  morning, everyone! My name is Asti, nice to meet you!"

Are you bored to say that overused introduction over and over again? Do you feel your introduction can't catch student's attention?  Want to try something different for your first class meeting and make an interesting icebreaker? 

We have you covered! This activity will help to spice up your boring introduction and make your student more confident in speaking!

[TELL MY STORY]

I got an inspiration from a popular YouTube channel, Soul Pancake. They make two strangers to make assumptions about each other's background. I modified it for my students and got some great responses! Here, I'm sharing how to do it:

1. Prepare a story narration like this

2. Show the the story to your students

3. Ask them to fill the blanks based on their impression on you

4. After they finish, ask some students to read his/her story about you in front of the class

5. Tell your actual story and compare it with the student's version

6. You can also choose one student and make the rest of the class to tell her/his story.

This ESL game works well as an ice-breaker in the first meeting when they don't know one another. This speaking activity also helps you to find out what is your student's friend impression about you.