Here's how it works: connect two well-known ESL games to make a
single, game that's more effective! 1 Play Hangman and Twenty
Questions at the same time. Choose a word, which must be a
concrete noun, and write a blank for each letter on the board.
Divide the class into two teams. Team A play Hangman, thye guess
the letters of the word, team B play Twenty Questions, they ask
yes/no questions. Teams take it in turns, so teacher alternately
write letters and answers questions. Benefit: Students work on
spelling and meaning at the same time. 2 The Shopping List game
and Word Chain. In the Shopping List game, one student starts: I
went shopping and I bought (an apple). The next student repeats
this and adds an item, and so on round the group. In Word Chain,
one student says a word and the next says a word which starts
with the last letter of the word, eg, house, egg, goat, tree,
exercise bike, elephant, tank and so on. Put the two together,
and the words in the list are joined in a chain. Benefit: This
makes the l