Letter by letter

1. Player A says a letter. Player B thinks of a word beginning with A's letter and says its second letter. C thinks of a word beginning ...

Mind your ear

1. Ask your students to write down the words with a particular sound, e.g.: [e]2. Dictate a set of different words including those with soun...

Selling freezers to Eskimos

Use the word of an object to challenge the student to 'sell' it to the class by arguing why they really need it. This activity can b...

Guess the word

1. Form groups of roughly equal numbers. Try and keep the groups as far away from each other as possible. Explain that one member of each gr...

Words out of...

1. Write up a selection of about ten disconnected letters scattered on the board, and ask students to use them to make words. Each letter ca...

My neighbour's cat

1. Draw a cat on the board. Introduce it as your neighbour's cat. Say, "My neighbour's cat is an awful cat!" Write the wor...

Words beginning with...

1. Give a letter, and ask the students to write down as many words as they can that begin with it in two minutes. Then they tell you what th...