Fun Games to Learn English

Players: 2+

Objective: To act out words and have the other players guess what word is being acted out.

How to Play: Players take turns acting out words or phrases, usually without speaking, while the other players try to guess what is being acted out.

How to Win: The player who guesses the most words correctly wins.

Players: 4+

Objective: To get your team to guess a given word or phrase without using any specific related words.

How to Play: Each player takes turns trying to get their team to guess the word on their card, however certain words and phrases are "taboo" and cannot be used.

How to Win: The team with the most correctly guessed words at the end of the game wins.

Players: 2+

Objective: To guess what someone is drawing to get a point.

How to Play: One player chooses a word or phrase and draws it while the other players try to guess what is being drawn.

How to Win: The player who guesses the most words correctly wins.

Players: 2-4

Objective: To create words and score points based on the letters' values and tile placement.

How to Play: Each player starts with a set of letter tiles and takes turns placing the tiles on a board, creating new words or building upon previously placed words. Points are tallied based on the values assigned to each letter.

How to Win: The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Players: 4+

Objective: To select the best fitting and descriptive card among a group of possibilities to match a descriptive card.

How to Play: Each player is given a set of cards with adjectives and nouns, and each turn the player selects a descriptor card and the other players submit a card from their hand that they believe best represents the descriptor. The active player then selects the best submission.

How to Win: The player with the most selected cards at the end of the game wins.

Players: 2+

Objective: To guess the word before the hangman is fully drawn.

How to Play: One player selects a word or phrase and the other player(s) must guess the word one letter at a time.

How to Win: The player or team that correctly guesses the word wins.

Players: 2+

Objective: To be the first to correctly identify a popular song from a short snippet of music

How to Play: One player plays a short snippet of a popular song, and the other player(s) must correctly identify which song it is.

How to Win: The player or team that correctly identifies the most songs at the end of the game wins.

Players: 2+

Objective: To create stories using a set of visual prompts

How to Play: Players roll a set of dice with pictures on them and use the pictures as a starting point to create a story.

How to Win: There is no winner, the game is played for fun.

Players: 2+

Objective: To create a chain of associated words based on a starting word.

How to Play: One player starts with a word, and the other player(s) must say a word that is associated with that word. Each subsequent player says a word that is associated with the previous word.

How to Win: There is no winner, the game is played for fun.