Since June 2018, I’ve been making adaptable games and board games for use in the language classroom. All games are made using Excel, which as a spreadsheet program, isn’t really designed for such purposes. However, it remains true that spreadsheets are generally versatile tools which allow us do things which would otherwise be difficult or even impossible.
Although a few of these games have been exported to PDF, the majority remain as spreadsheets. This is because they are generators, which allow you to adapt the content to fit the needs of your class. For example, this generator: Snakes and ladders generator: world capital cities allows you to add your own content. However, if you leave the data source blank, it auto-generates questions and answers on world capital cities. On the other hand, this generator: Snakes and ladders generator does not auto-generate in the same way and requires you to add your own data, i.e. questions, conversation starter statements, etc.
Here is a compilation of all games and board games available to download on this blog:
Snakes and ladders
- Snakes and ladders generator
- Snakes and ladders generator: world capital cities
- Snakes and ladders generator: American capital cities
- Snakes and ladders generator: African capital cities
Grid game generator
Cross and circle game generator
Language dominoes
Board game generator
- Board game generator: world capital cities
- Board game generator: European capital cities
- Board game generator: African capital cities
Board game generator for virtual teaching
- Board game generator: Virtual teaching
- Board game generator: Virtual teaching (world capital cities)
- Board game generator: Virtual teaching (European capital cities)
- Board game generator: Virtual teaching (African capital cities)
Arrows game generator for virtual teaching
- Arrows game generator: Virtual teaching
- Arrows game generator: Virtual teaching (world capital cities)
- Arrows game generator: Virtual teaching (European capital cities)
- Arrows game generator: Virtual teaching (African capital cities)
Pelmanism
Bingo (pictures)
Bingo (numbers)
- Bingo! generator: Numbers 1-10
- Bingo! generator: Numbers 1-20
- Bingo! generator: Numbers 1-100
- Bingo! generator: Numbers 1-1000
Dice
Kim’s Game
Phrasal verb generator
Ludo generator
Mutual dictation generator
All content on this blog is free to download and I do sincerely hope I’ve helped someone in a far-flung corner of our world fill a gap with a fun activity.
When new content is published, I will update this page, so do drop by again!
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Thank you ever so much for sharing all these games. Something that should be bookmarked by every online teacher.
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Thank you, Martin. It’s much appreciated.
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