English Learning Fun!

Try these games to kick start some English learning fun!

Writer: Jenea Nixon

`Want to make learning English a bit more fun and a little less tedious? It’s not a secret that the best way to improve your English is to practice, practice, practice! You might have a conversation partner that you speak English with, or if you’re like me and have no friends, you can talk to the wall and pretend it is talking back.

Another way to practice English is to use it during games! Here is a list of games that can help you practice the English skills that you have acquired.

1) Scrabble: One of the most universal games known to man. In this game, you have to spell words and try to beat your opponents by outscoring them. This is very good for spelling and learning new words because often there will be words you put together randomly and decide to look it up in a dictionary, only to find that it is a REAL word.

2) 20 questions: As the name states, you have 20 questions to correctly guess a secret word. This is very helpful in developing your questioning and deduction skills. It is best to start your questions with something generic before going into more specific questions. A generic question is something like, ‘is it a girl?’. A specific question is something like, ‘is she a singer?’.

3) Taboo: I don’t know about you, but I love taboo. It is a challenging game, even for native speakers but it is very fun. The game encourages you to come up with synonyms or find ways of describing a target word without saying any of the taboo words listed. The word might be ‘ocean’, which seems easy enough, right? But you can’t say these words: sea, beach, fish or water. Now that makes it tougher!

4) Code names: I don’t know about you, but I also love code names! This game is truly underrated. In this game, you have 25 words laid out into a 5x5 grid and you are split into two teams. Each team has a code master who has to expertly link words together and gives their teammates a one-word clue. For example, your team has the words ‘India’ and ‘New York’ so your clue could be something like, ‘location’. This is also a challenging game that I highly recommend. If you want to make it easier, you could allow clues of more than one word.

Do you have any games that you would recommend?

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Writer: Jenea Nixon