Free ESL Games for Primary English Classes | ESL Arcade
Free ESL classroom games and teacher tools: spelling races, word search, vocabulary and grammar games, student pickers and warm-ups. No setup.
ESL games
- Last One Standing: A survival game show for your class: answer before the robot turns, cross the glass bridge of spellings and crack the cookie. Last team standing wins!
- Pass the Pepper: Say the word, pass the pepper! When it bursts, the team holding it gets burned. Works with pictures. One button, zero prep.
- Box Battle: The review game show: teams pick numbered boxes and answer what's inside. Surprise boxes steal, swap, doubleโฆ or BOMB!
- Sweaty Buttons: Two buttons, one right answer and a very nervous guy. Spelling, meaning and grammar choices. Pick fast or watch him melt!
- Peekaboo: A secret picture appears bit by bit: tiles, zoom, blur or spotlight. Guess early for more points!
- Sentence Train: The words fell off the train! Tap them in the right order to build the sentence and send the train off.
- Word Race Arena: Up to 3 teams race to spell the word before time runs out. Add your own words and clues.
- Shout It Out: The whole class says it together and their voices blow up the balloon until it POPS. Uses the microphone.
- Word Fish Aquarium: Catch the letter fish in the right order to spell the word. Easy, medium and hard levels.
- Robot Says: Listening game: do it only when the robot says โRobot saysโฆโ. Trick commands, speed levels, auto mode.
- Word Hunt: Word search on the board: drag across the letters to catch the unit's words. Timer included.
- Tug of War: Kรฉo Co! Two teams, one rope: every right answer pulls the rope to your side. Race mode, power pulls and a muddy finish!
- Quiz Show: The big-screen class quiz: four coloured answers, a timer, every team shows A, B, C or D, and a leaderboard after each question. Works with any topic.
- Find the Goat: Bแปt Mแบฏt Bแบฏt Dรช! Answer right to open a barn door. Find the goat for 5 points, grab carrots, dodge the wolf.
- Stop the Bus: Spin a letter, write a word for every category, and shout STOP THE BUS! No prep: just paper and pencils.
Classroom Kit
- Who's Next?: Pick students with 9 crazy animations: alien invasion, hot potato, slot machine, dog chase and more.
- Silly Seat: Spin to see who sits in the Silly Seat, then they do a silly move or challenge.
- Class Stars: Team points, sounds, rewards and funny punishments to keep the whole class on track.
- Noise Detective: Press Scan and catch the chatterboxes. Uses the camera and mic to show who's making noise.
- Big Timer: A huge, calm countdown for the board: presets, +1 minute, a task label and a gentle ring at the end.
- Team Maker: Paste your class list and get random teams in one click. Saved in your browser, big and readable on the projector.
