“One-Minute” Fun Engaging Games Teachers Can Use In Their Class

 

Game One: Bingo 

• Get a softball and a timer
• Pick a set of vocabulary you want to revise, students pass the ball. When they get the ball they must say a word. This word can’t be repeated.
• Students continue until the time is up. The bingo! 

Game Two: Chain

• Get your class to form a circle. You will need a soft toy or a softball.
• Students pass the ball and count a particular sequence, the one they want to revise.
• Only the student who has the ball can speak.

Game Three: Concentration

• Show your class a large set of words you want to revise.
• Tell students that they have to remember as many words as they can.
• After the two minutes have passed, remove all the words or the flashcards and get students to write as many words as they remember.
• As a group, get them to list all the words on the board.

Game Four: Password. 

• Divide the class into groups and place a chair in front of the board facing the class.
• Write a word on the board.
• One person from each team sits on the chair and the team tries to describe the word. If the student recognizes the word, the team gets a point                                    Game Five: Secret Spies 

• Write words or sentences on pieces of paper.
• Cut the words up into letters.
• Get to the students and get them to decipher the words.
• Get the students to make their own.

Game six: Yes, sit down/ No, stand up

• Tell students that answering YESmeans stand up and NO means sit down.
• Ask students simple corrections to check that they understand.
• After students understand, get ready to ask questions.