5 Fun Grammar Games to Improve Your English Skills

Making grammar fun can be an excellent way to increase student familiarity and decrease any inhibitions they might have about it, particularly among teenagers who often view grammar as dry and boring.

Make two teams out of your students and write key grammar concepts on the board. Have one student from each team come forward to read a sentence that matches that concept – if it does so they should swat it with their fly swatter and earn one point for their team!

1. You’ve Been Sentenced

You’ve Been Sentenced is an exciting word game designed to make creating grammatically correct sentences more fun than ever! Perfect for practicing grammar concepts such as contractions or sentence structure while honing spelling skills – You’ve Been Sentenced can be played both individually or with others in groups!

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Each round begins by each player drawing 10 cards from a shuffled deck and creating a sentence using only those words available in their hand. If their sentence is both grammatically correct and makes sense, they receive points equal to the words on the bottom of their cards. Any player may challenge their sentence. When this occurs, its creator must defend it by explaining why their argument makes sense and defend their argument against criticism by giving reasons why. Once majority support their sentence’s defenseer receives points equal to its words from their bottom of cards.

2. Last Word

Word games like scrambled words and crossword puzzles provide students with an engaging way to acquire vocabulary and grammar skills in an entertaining fashion. Online vocabulary and grammar games allow students to put their learning to the test in an intensely competitive environment that fosters memorization while keeping students interested. Mobile applications like Scrabble or Words With Friends allow players to expand their vocabularies while competing against players all around the globe!

This grammar game helps ESL beginners hone their relative pronoun skills. It presents sentences containing relative pronouns and asks students to click a bubble next to whether the pronoun was used correctly or incorrectly – correct answers earn more points! Perfect for vocabulary or grammar classes!

3. You’ve Been Adjectivized

Grammar may seem intimidating for adult English learners, so using games as a learning aid is an effective way of breaking it down and reinforcing its rules. Engaged students will find it easier to grasp and retain grammar rules over time.

Grammar games can help students build confidence in their English abilities and build up more self-assurance in class, leading to greater participation and receptivity from students.

Try playing Crazy Adverbs as an engaging way for students to understand how adjectives function in sentences. This fun take on charades can help students grasp how adjectives can be used to describe nouns and verbs within sentences.

Secret Category is another great game to play with small groups. Start by asking students to select a category on the grammar wall, adding new words throughout the day that belong in that category. Next, have them line up and read each word aloud while simultaneously identifying its part of speech.

4. Simon Says

Have you ever experienced standing in a kindergarten classroom while all the children pointed at you and said, “Simon says” to do something? As Daily Muse notes, Simon Says has been around for centuries and can help improve understanding of English grammatical structures through physical action.

In Simon Says, a leader (usually the teacher) issues commands to a group of listeners–either body actions or words that can be performed aloud. Listeners must only obey commands beginning with “Simon says”–otherwise they are disqualified. Over time, teachers can gradually increase difficulty by speaking faster or choosing more difficult words as commands.

This ESL game is best suited for younger students, though any age can participate. This activity helps build verb and body part identification as well as listening skills by hearing different types of commands and understanding how they should be executed.

5. Mind Maps

Mind maps are an engaging way to present vocabulary. Their visual nature helps retain information more effectively because human brains remember connections among words rather than individual ones.

Mind maps can be an effective visual aid for learning new vocabulary or grammar rules, providing a visual way to memorize groups of words more easily. A mind map should begin with your lesson’s subject matter – for instance “fruit.” Place this word at the center of a circle and draw lines connecting related words that relate directly or indirectly. This provides an engaging visual way to help memorize groups of words quickly.

Add images or doodles to make it more captivating, elevating content to spark responses in your cerebral cortex, and boost brain activity to increase English skills and enhance overall improvement. This will also help develop communication abilities.

Mind mapping templates can also be found online through sites such as Mindmeister or SimpleMind to make the process simpler. For instance, this vocabulary mind map shows all synonyms for “talk.” Additionally, this chart depicts all grammatical forms such as past continuous and simple forms.