Starter/beginner, elementary
A selection of interactive games and activities at starter/beginner and elementary levels.
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Starter/beginner and elementary games
Games and activities: A fisherman's day
Type: Game
A fun game that will test the young learner's ability to use irregular verbs to describe a fisherman's day.
Games and activities: A or an?
Type: Game
A game for students to practise using the articles 'a' and 'an' with a variety of different nouns.
Games and activities: A rainy jungle tale
Type: Game
Listen and read along to the story about weather in the jungle.
Games and activities: A recipe for disaster
Type: Game
Fill in the gaps to complete the cake recipe.
Games and activities: A seaside puzzle
Type: Game
Complete the seaside wordsearch.
Games and activities: A sunny day
Type: Game
Students practise the present simple, past simple along with prepositions of place.
Games and activities: All creatures great and small
Type: Game
A fun gap-fill exercise to practise adjectives describing size and animal vocabulary.
Games and activities: Alphabetical order
Type: Game
Type the words and put them into alphabetical order.
Games and activities: Animal detectives
Type: Game
Follow the footprints to find the animals.
Games and activities: Animal guess who
Type: Game
Complete the animal crossword.
Games and activities: Animal habitats
Type: Game
This colourful game is the perfect way to teach children more about animals and their habitats.
Games and activities: Animal names
Type: Game
A fun game to practise animal vocabulary.
Games and activities: Animal prepositions
Type: Game
A fun games to practise prepositions of place and animal names.
Games and activities: Animal rhymes
Type: Game
An activity for students to practise recognizing words that rhyme with each other.
Games and activities: Animal sounds
Type: Game
A fun matching game, where students match animals with their sounds.
Games and activities: Asking for and giving directions
Type: Game
This tricky game will test the learner's ability to read and interpret directions.
Games and activities: At leisure
Type: Game
A game focussing on the present continuous, along with vocabulary for places and leisure activities.
Games and activities: At the beach
Type: Game
A fun activity where students learn vocabulary relating to the seaside by solving anagrams.
Games and activities: At the market
Type: Game
A game for students to practise adjectives, nouns and question forms relating to the subject of shopping.
Games and activities: At the supermarket
Type: Game
Follow the lines and write the correct price for each item of shopping.
Games and activities: Birthday time
Type: Game
Drag the Birthdays into the correct order.
Games and activities: By the sea
Type: Game
Students complete seaside dot-to-dot puzzles and then learn to spell the objects in the pictures.
Games and activities: Can I?
Type: Game
An activity to practise can and can't and vocabulary relating to leisure activities.
Games and activities: Clothes rack
Type: Game
Complete the crossword by naming the pictured items of clothing.
Games and activities: Clowning around
Type: Game
A fun activity for students to practise prepositions of place.
Games and activities: Colour the outfit
Type: Game
Click on the colours and drag them over the correct item of clothing.
Games and activities: Connect the dots
Type: Game
Connect the dots in the order of the alphabet to reveal the animal underneath.
Games and activities: Crossword
Type: Game
Complete the crossword by typing the correct names of the pictured objects.
Games and activities: Describing actions
Type: Game
This game is a brilliant tool for children to practise using adverbs.
Games and activities: Dot-to-dot
Type: Game
Join the dots to practise asking and answering questions.
Games and activities: Dressing up box
Type: Game
Drag the objects into the pictures to dress the people.
Games and activities: Eating habits
Type: Game
A typing activity to practise comparatives and superlatives relating to food and diet.
Games and activities: Everyday activities
Type: Game
In this bright game children match the words with the pictures to describe everyday activities.
Games and activities: Fill the boxes
Type: Game
A tricky game where children fill boxes with goodies and, in doing so, practise putting nouns into different categories.
Games and activities: Find the words
Type: Game
Click and drag through each word you find to complete the word search.
Games and activities: Food and clothing
Type: Game
An entertaining game where students match the words about food and clothing.
Games and activities: Fruity prepositions
Type: Game
Students practise prepositions of place and fruit vocabulary.
Games and activities: Fun things to do
Type: Game
An entertaining game where students find words relating to leisure activities.
Games and activities: Going to the shops
Type: Game
This bright and cheery game tests a child's ability to fill in a crossword puzzle.
Games and activities: Happy birthday!
Type: Game
A fun interactive game for students to practise ages, dates and birthdays.
Games and activities: Have or has?
A challenging gap-fill activity for students to practise using the correct form of the verb 'to have'.
Games and activities: Health and hygiene
Type: Game
A visual activity for students to practise the first conditional with words relating to health and personal hygiene.
Games and activities: His or hers?
Type: Game
In this fun game young learners drag the words into the gaps to test their knowledge of possessives.
Games and activities: Hobbies
Type: Game
A game to practise asking and answering questions in the present continuous.
Games and activities: Home and garden
Type: Game
A game to practise the present continuous tense with vocabulary relating to the home and garden.
Games and activities: Hop, rabbit, hop!
Type: Game
A fun game to practise prepositions of place.
Games and activities: House and garden
Type: Game
A visual activity where students choose the correct adjective to describe various parts of the house and garden.
Games and activities: Household items
Type: Game
A game to practise prepositions of place with household items.
Games and activities: Household wordsearch
Type: Game
Find the words of the household items to complete the game.
Games and activities: How old are they?
Type: Game
A fun game for students to answer questions on age.
Games and activities: I can, I can't
Type: Game
Write what the people in the pictures can and can't do.
Games and activities: Ice cream sing-along
Type: Game
Sing along to the ice cream song and drag the correct colour to each picture.
Games and activities: Imperatives in the park
Type: Game
An activity about a picnic in the park to give students practise in using imperatives.
Games and activities: In the library
Type: Game
Students solve anagrams to practise vocabulary relating to the library.
Games and activities: In the park
Type: Game
Click on the correct sign and fill in the name of the place.
Games and activities: In the past
Type: Game
Complete the sentences by filling in the past tense form of each verb.
Games and activities: It's a...
Type: Game
Type the correct names of the pictured objects.
Games and activities: It's imperative
A fun game to practise using the imperative 'must'.
Games and activities: Jobs
Type: Game
This is a stimulating game for children to drag the words into the gaps to describe the different jobs that people do.
Games and activities: Juggling clowns
Type: Game
This bright and cheery game tests a child's ability to look at a picture and answer the questions accordingly.
Games and activities: Jungle prepositions
Type: Game
Prepositions of place with animals in the jungle.
Games and activities: Leisure time adverbs
Type: Game
Look at the leisure timetable and fill in the gaps using the correct adverbs of frequency.
Games and activities: Let's compare
Type: Game
Fill the gaps to make comparisons between the pictures.
Games and activities: Listen up!
Type: Game
A listening game to practise using the imperative.
Games and activities: Look and write
Type: Game
Look at the picture and write where each of the objects are.
Games and activities: Mixed up machines
Type: Game
Find the names of the electrical household goods in the wordsearch.
Games and activities: Monkey business
Type: Game
A fun game to practise naming parts of the body and clothing.
Games and activities: My daily routine
Type: Game
Students drag the pictures into the correct boxes to practise talking about daily routines.
Games and activities: My house
Type: Game
Name and count the items of furniture inside the house.
Games and activities: Odd one out
Type: Game
Students identify the odd one out from a series of nouns.
Games and activities: Opinions
Type: Game
A typing activity where students use the pictures to help them write sentences about different opinions on leisure activites and pastimes.
Games and activities: Out for the count
Type: Game
Count the pictures and drag the words and numbers into the gaps.
Games and activities: Paint brush
Type: Game
Use the paint brush to paint the pictures.
Games and activities: Paint me
Type: Game
Use the paint brush to paint the different objects in the pictures.
Games and activities: Painting
Students paint various objects and learn to recognize colours.
Games and activities: People, animals and things
Type: Game
A fun game for students to practise the verb 'to have' with vocabulary for people, animals and things.
Games and activities: Perfect pronouns
Type: Game
A fun gap-fill activity to practise pronouns.
Games and activities: Play with numbers
Type: Game
A game for students to practise recognizing and spelling numbers in word form.
Games and activities: Postive and negative rules
Type: Game
A great game for children to practise writing positive and negative sentences.
Games and activities: Preposition challenge
Type: Game
Drag the objects and put them into the correct place in the room.
Games and activities: Present continuous challenge
Type: Game
A challenging activity to give students practise in recognizing the present simple and present continuous forms of various verbs.
Games and activities: Present continuous crossword
Type: Game
Students complete a crossword to practise the present continuous tense and vocabulary relating to leisure activities.
Games and activities: Questions and answers
Students match various questions with the corresponding answers in this game.
Games and activities: Quick wordsearch
Type: Game
Students solve a quick wordsearch to practise various nouns.
Games and activities: Royal family crossword
Type: Game
Complete the crossword about Princess' family.
Games and activities: Rules, rules, rules
Type: Game
A game to practise using 'must' and 'must not' when taking about rules.
Games and activities: Seasons around the world
Type: Game
A visual activity to recognise words relating to weather and the seasons in different countries of the world.
Games and activities: Shopping list
Type: Game
Answer the questions about the shopping list.
Games and activities: Should I?
Type: Game
An activitity to practise using 'should' for obligation.
Games and activities: Singing on the train
Type: Game
A lively sing-along activity about a train journey to practise using the present continuous.
Games and activities: South American crossword
Type: Game
Students can use their knowledge of South American countries to complete this challenging crossword.
Games and activities: Stone Age 1
Type: Game
Complete the crossword about the Stone Age.
Games and activities: Stone Age 2
Type: Game
Answer the questions about life in the Stone Age.
Games and activities: Superlative challenge
Type: Game
Click on the pictures that match the descriptions.
Games and activities: Tell me why
Type: Game
Drag and drop the answers into the gaps.
Games and activities: The candy store
Type: Game
An entertaining game for children to answer questions about Lizzie and Becky's trip to the candy store using the verb 'to be'.
Games and activities: The goodbye song
Type: Game
A sing-along activity to practise using the present continuous tense.
Games and activities: The letter M
Type: Game
Students learn and spell the names of various different nouns, all beginning with the letter M. Students then put these words into alphabetical order.
Games and activities: The old, the young and the ugly
Type: Game
A fun matching activity for students to practise adjectives to describe people.
Games and activities: The orang-utan
Type: Game
Students listen to to a story about an orang-utan and read along to practise vocabulary relating to parts of the body and describing appearance.
Games and activities: The park
Type: Game
Drag the words into the gaps to complete the story about the park.
Games and activities: The race
Type: Game
An exercise to practise recognising and using ordinal numbers.
Games and activities: The weather
Type: Game
A matching activity to practise adjectives relating to weather.
Games and activities: The weather
Type: Game
This is a brilliant sing-along song for children about the weather.
Games and activities: Things in the house
Type: Game
A fun activity for children to practise using prepositions of place to describe household objects.
Games and activities: Tick tock
Type: Game
A fun game for students to practise telling the time in English.
Games and activities: Tim's life
Type: Game
A fun activity to practise talking about personal details.
Games and activities: To be
Type: Game
A game to practise using the correct form of the verb 'to be' along with vocabulary relating to people and animals.
Games and activities: Today and yesterday
Type: Game
Fill the gaps to say what happened today and yesterday.
Games and activities: Toys and games wordsearch
Type: Game
Find the words related to toys and games in the wordsearch.
Games and activities: Up in the sky
Type: Game
A challenging game for students to practise using determiners.
Games and activities: Vacation, vacation, vacation!
Type: Game
A fun typing activity to practise talking about vacations in the past simple tense.
Games and activities: What am I?
Type: Game
A visual recognition game to practise various nouns.
Games and activities: What are they doing?
Type: Game
Click on the words that complete the sentences which describe what the people are doing.
Games and activities: What are they like?
Type: Game
A visual game to practise describing animals and people.
Games and activities: What can she do?
Type: Game
This is a stimulating game where children click on the correct answers to describe what the little girl can do.
Games and activities: What can they do?
Type: Game
A game to practise questions forms with vocabulary for leisure activities.
Games and activities: What can you see?
Type: Game
An entertaining game for students to answer questions using the verb 'to be'.
Games and activities: What comes next?
Type: Game
Practise the present and past simple by saying what comes next.
Games and activities: What did they eat?
Type: Game
This game about food allows students to have fun while practising using the past simple.
Games and activities: What do I do today?
Type: Game
This is a colorful game where children drag the words into the gaps to describe a variety of activities.
Games and activities: What do you do on Sunday?
Type: Game
Choose the activity to match the person.
Games and activities: What is happening?
Type: Game
In this colourful game, children look at the pictures and click on the correct words to describe the picture.
Games and activities: What is it?
Type: Game
Young learners fill in the gaps to complete the sentences.
Games and activities: What time is it?
Type: Game
In this fun game young learners drag the words into the gaps to practise telling the time.
Games and activities: What Tom can do
Type: Game
Students click on the correct answers to describe Tom.
Games and activities: What work do they do?
Type: Game
Students fill in the gaps to describe the work people do.
Games and activities: What would you like to do?
Type: Game
A game to practise the second conditional and hobbies.
Games and activities: What's the time?
Type: Game
Set the clocks to the written times.
Games and activities: What's the weather like?
Type: Game
A fun activity to practise using the future tense with 'going to' and vocabulary relating to the weather.
Games and activities: Where do I work?
Type: Game
A game to practise prepositions of place with jobs and places of work.
Games and activities: Which animal is it?
Type: Game
An enjoyable game for young learners to test their understanding of questions.
Games and activities: Which one?
Type: Game
Students identify the odd one out in groups of words.
Games and activities: Who am I?
Type: Game
A fun gap-fill task to practise describing people using the verbs 'to have' and 'to be' plus adjectives.
Games and activities: Who is stronger?
Type: Game
Drag and drop the words to match the pictures.
Games and activities: Whose food is this?
A fun game about having a picnic that will test a young learner's ability to use possessives.
Games and activities: Whose is it?
Type: Game
Fill in the gaps to practise possessive -s.
Games and activities: Word categories
Type: Game
Students sort the pictures into groups to practise recognising noun categories.
Games and activities: Word-building jigsaw
Type: Game
Drag the jigsaw pieces to make the words.
Games and activities: Words and numbers
Type: Game
Drag the numbers to the words.
Games and activities: Write the question
Type: Game
Write the question that matches the response.