Language Games

[Serge Toper]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I m Serge Toper. I live in Ukraine. I used to be an ESL teacher and I am not an odd member of this forum section - I believe in 'Game in teaching English' I even created a Language Games Blog where I post games daily. I joined this forum to share and discuss game ideas with teachers of English all over the world.

[shelleyvernon]

Dear Serge,
Thanks, I will check out your blog. You may get some ideas from me too, as long as you quote the source, as I give away free games by email. They are particularly helpful for new teachers and give a new bent on some familiar games, plus some new ones, for those long in the tooth!

There are also games and a free story for three to five year old children.

Here are the links;
www.teachingenglishgames.com for the 6 to 12 year olds
and
www.teachingenglishgames.com/3-5.htm
for the free mini-series for preschool children including story.

[eslweb]

I like your blog, lots of fun.... I made/adapted a few games at the end of last year that you might like to try. They are all in Flash.

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/advanced/index.htm

Interactive Hangman
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/intermediate/hangman.htm

Word Searches
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/beginner/vocabpacks.html

Interactive House Designer
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/beginner/roomsvocab.html

Pronunciation games
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/beginner/Pronunciation.html
There's a downloadable Executable version of this one too.

There's also a section on the site for playing board games etc
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/intermediate/fillers.html

I hope these are useful... I always get requests to make more, but the truth is that they take a lot of time to make each one and I have two very young children at home who are not going to sit at home and let daddy program in flash.

James

[Rassi]

Serge, your blog rocks. Its been an inspiration for my new adult beginner classes. Its easy to read, easy to follow, and has lots of great ideas. Here's another for you-"follow the leader":
Basically you have a leader who tells the blindfolded, handholing, followers exactly what to do and where to go. I did this once as one of the followers and as nerve wrecking as it might be, we ended up in a cool spot and spent to rest of the night talking. This is a good listening and speaking exercise.

Rassi