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This game allows students to talk about hypothetical situations in an authentic and engaging way. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

This board game provides students with prompts to discuss what they might find in specific locations. Download the game, instructions, and game variations.

This session, "Activate 21st Century Skills with Board Games in the Classroom", examines how playing board games can enable ELLs of all ages to develop authentic language skills while also practicing collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity!

These two puzzles are based on new Activate games found in this issue of English Teaching Forum (Volume 62, Number 1), but the game boards are not necessary for solving the puzzles: (a) unscrambling a board-games conversation between two students and (b) using logic to find out which games four friends played. Can you solve both?

Students use oral or written conditionals to develop a series of related “cause and effect” events. The chain of events will create a short, often funny, story!

Are you looking for fun, meaningful activities to use in your classroom? Check out these board games! Game themes require students to produce certain types of expressions, so they practice a variety of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and functional meanings.

In this activity, students will practice or review using conditionals to express wishes and regrets about the past. This conditional form used in this situation is often called the past unreal conditional or the third conditional.

This session, "News They Can Use: Creating a Digital Newspaper," introduces how to help your students discover and share their own voices!

Browse the list of publications and resources produced by the U.S. Department of State, Office of English Language Programs for English language teachers and learners.