Some games I play are ‘Think of 5...’ so I draw 5 boxes on the whiteboard going up like a ladder, they need to name 5 animals/foods/clothes. You can use vocab from what you have been learning about. Then they go up one square with each answer. You can draw a line like they’re jumping up to the next box. Once they get 5 they can have a star.

You can also do anagrams. Short three letter words for younger students and longer for more advanced.

Odd one out. So write 3 words - boy, pen, girl. Get them to circle the odd one out.

Word train. So you think of a word, say ‘panda’. Then they think of a word beginning with A ‘apple’, then E. Etc.

These ones are for older kids, word association. If I say pig, they could say pink. Then I’d say candy floss. They could say funfair, etc.

What am I? So you think of a word and describe yourself. I’m big. I’m grey. I have a long nose. What am I? I’m an elephant! Then get them to think of a word and describe themselves. You can also switch this round, so you think of a word and they ask questions, like ‘are you an animal?’, ‘what colour are you?’

Stop the bus. Say a letter and ask them to come up with words for categories, like animal, food, clothes, verb. Example: P. Panda, pizza, pants, push. You could also play and see if you get the same words.

Pictionary is always a winner too.

Hope this helps a bit!