Younger learners may enjoy a creative, hands-on game that encourages them to choose the correct part of speech. Fill a kiddie pool or make a masking tape circle on the carpet with paper fish. Each fish should have a word written on it. For beginners, put nouns on half the fish and verbs on the other half; older learners can have fish with examples of all eight parts of speech.
Stop the music; the student holding the item has to name a verb. For an extra challenge, have students list one verb per letter of the alphabet. Using paper and a bold marker big enough that all students sitting at their desks can see the words clearly , write several sentences with one word on a separate piece of paper. Mix up the papers, group them by sentence, and have each student take a word. Each sentence is one round of the game. Tell students to organize themselves in a sentence in a line in front of the class, holding their papers out for their classmates to see.
Then say to your students, "If you are holding the verb, jump for joy or perform the verb. Have students write verbs on scrap paper or make your own list. Divide the class into small groups and have each student choose one verb from a box. At the end, they share their stories and the class votes for their favorite. To make the game more challenging, increase the number of verbs that groups must use.
You need a blackboard, chalk, and two fly swatters for this verb game. Break the room up into two teams. Make three big boxes about 2'x2' and inside of them, write "helping," "action," and "linking," which are the three kinds of verbs. For each turn of SWAT, have two students one from each team come up to the board. Have them each hold a fly swatter in hand. Then, read aloud one of your sentences. Their job is to swat at the correct box as soon as possible, identifying correctly whether the verb is a helping, action, or linking verb.
Start the game by preparing music that you can start and stop quickly. Get a pen, book, or any object to pass around.
Arrange the students in rows or a circle and instruct them on which direction to move the object. The punishment can be acting out a verb or singing a song to make the game more educational.
You can also modify the game for advanced classes by limiting the verbs to certain alphabets. For example, name the verbs that start with the letter B or C, and so on. Another great way to use verb games for the classroom! You can also use it as a way to teach spellings. Before starting, arrange the students in a circle and let one student stand in the middle as a pointer. On five, whoever is pointed will have to spell out a three-letter word.
Then the student in the middle counts to 5 in the same way and points at another student who has to name three verbs starting with the three letters spelled out.
In this game, you will need to prepare cards with verbs written in them. For the game, arrange the students in a circle. Then put the cards in a bag or box. You begin but picking a card and start a storyline that has the verb in the sentence.
The memory game begins as the students repeat the storyline before theirs. The sentences get longer, and it becomes more complicated when the cards get passed around. The rule of the game is to make sure you come up with a storyline with the verb in the sentence.
You can also turn this game into a written game if you have time. The game is suitable both for any level of ESL classes. It requires a little bit of setup, but it can be played easily. Before playing the game, create several sentences that feature helping verbs. Pick out four words from each sentence to be four answer options for students to choose from.
Of course, make sure one of the options is actually a helping verb. Many teachers rely on the tried and true songs that feature helping and linking verbs and invent helping verb games that feature these songs.
Consider using one or both of the two helping songs below to lead a musical chairs game with your class. Prepare a lyrics sheet for the song s you will be using.
Set chairs up in an oval or circle, with one less chair than the number of players. You can add extra fun to the game by calling on one student who is still "in" to say the next word from the song on the spot. If the selected student forgets or makes a mistake, they are out too!
Linking verbs are a specific type of helping verb. This linking verbs song should be sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down. Make it clear to the students that the contest is about the content of the song, not their singing ability. Distribute them to the class and have the students practice as a group several times, letting them know that the goal will be for each of them to sing or recite the song in front of the class on their own. You may also want to break the class into groups and have students practice in front of a small group before starting the game.
This game is a fun, seasonal activity related to helping verbs. It is a great way to reinforce students' knowledge of helping verbs after they have learned what they are. Start by having students memorize the helping verbs list below. This is a great homework assignment for the evening before the game. Set the stage by telling your students a story about how some papers you were grading the other night that had so many helping verbs in them that they are now haunting the classroom.
Consider offering prizes for first, second and third place based on the number of votes ; consider including honorable mention as well. This fun seasonal verb game can be incorporated with other Halloween themed learning materials. This game provides students with an opportunity to win stickers or other small prizes for being the fastest to recognize helping verbs in a story or other content that is being read aloud in class.
Review a list of helping verbs with the students before you start reading. If students are just starting to learn the helping verbs, you may want to write a list of them on the whiteboard or hang up a poster that lists them. Explain to students that you are going to read them a story or chapter from a book. Declare students who have collected the most stickers or other small prizes to be the helping verb champion for that day. If there were some helping verbs in the content that no one caught, review those with the class for instructional and reinforcement purposes.
Word search puzzles are a great tool for gamifying language arts education. You could create your own word search activity by hand, but using an online word search generator makes easy work of creating this kind of worksheet. The system will quickly provide you with a word search puzzle that includes all of the helping verbs you entered, hidden within other letters. It will also provide you with an answer key showing where the words are hidden.
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