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1. Activate: Games for Learning American English

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   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.

2. Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What?

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   Guess What? cards can be used for a variety of games in the classroom to provide an opportunity for students to practice making descriptions in English and to learn English vocabulary.

3. Board Game: What You Might Find

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games Format(s): Text

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

4. Board Game: What Someone Does

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games Format(s): Text

   This board game gives students a chance to talk about what people do in certain situations. Download the game, instructions, and game variations.

5. Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks

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   Word Bricks help students identify word patterns in sentences. This overview will teach you sentence structure and patterns and help you to master all of the Word Bricks games!

6. The Lighter Side of TEFL: Word Games

   In: The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 1 Format(s): Text

   This section focuses on word games, which reinforces learned vocabulary.

7. Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This

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   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

8. The Prisoner’s Dilemma – A Game of Decision-Making

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   How do people make Decisions? This game, presented by The National Science Foundation, is an example of decision science called “Game Theory”.

9. Picture This

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English Format(s): Text

   Activate: Games for Learning American English is a collection of games for the language classroom. The games in Activate offer interactive English language practice in a learner-centered, low-stress environment. Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

10. The Lighter Side: "Vanilla Rice Stream"

    In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): E-book

    In this puzzle, two words in each sentence don’t make sense. Your job is to replace them with words that rhyme with the original words and make the sentence make sense.

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