Includes index.

Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Ice breakers and warmers

CARE AND SHARE
1.1 Learning names
Variation I Getting to know each other
1.2 Stand in a line
1.3 Pass on a sound
1.4 Questions and questionnaires
Variation 1 Questions about you
Variation 2 Predict your partner's answers
Variation 3 Yes/No questions to the teacher
Variation 4 Questions to the teacher: what’s the truth?
1.5 Find someone who…
Variation 1 Things in common
1.6 Match the person to the information
1.7 Topics to talk about
Variation 1 Something nice which happened
Variation 2 A special object
Variation 3 A special number
Variation 4 A random word
Variation 5 A colour
1.8 All the words you know
1.9 Proverbs
1.10 Jog! Jog!
1.11 Visualisation
1.12 Lost in the fog

2. Mainly speaking

DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
2.1 Slowly reveal a picture
2.2 Liar!

DESCRIBE
2.3 Describe and draw
Variation 1 Describe and draw in pairs
2.4 Describe and identify
Variation 1 Describe and identify a picture
Variation 2 Describe and identify a detail in a picture
Variation 3 Describe and identify a conversation in a picture
Variation 4 Describe and identify thoughts in a picture

CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP
2.5 Two pictures
Variation 1 Three words
2.6 What’s the difference?
Variation 1 Comparing pictures
2.7 Find a connection

REMEMBER
2.8 What can you remember?
Variation 1 what were they wearing?
Variation 2 What is my neighbour wearing?
Variation 3 Can you remember the picture?

CREATE
2.9 Stories with 10 pictures
Variation 1 Adding to a story
Variation 2 Silly news reports
Variation 3 Tour and tell
2.10 Question stories
Variation 1 Question stories based on pictures
Variation 2 Question stories based on objects
Variation 3 Question stories based on a single word or phrase
2.11 What can you do with it?
2.12 What would you take?
2.13 A sound poem

3. Mainly listening

DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY
3.1 Listen and draw
3.2 Act out a story

IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
3.3 Listen for the difference
Variation 1 what’s wrong
3.4 Repeat it if it is true
3.5 Which picture is it?
Variation 1 Someone or something you know
3.6 Bingo
Variation 1 Bingo definitions
Variation 2 Bingo Rhyming words
Variation 3 Learner Bingo grid

ORDER
3.7 Most important – least important
3.8 Put the story in order

CREATE
3.9 Visualise and describe

4. Mainly writing

IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
4.1 True and false essays
Variation 1 True and false sentences
Variation 2 True and false dictation
Variation 3 True and false definitions

DESCRIBE
4.2 Draw the bank robbers
Variation 1 Describe from memory
Variation 2 Describe an object

CREATE
4.3 Bouncing Dialogue
4.4 Bouncing stories
4.5 Bouncing letters
4.6 Ambiguous picture story
4.7 Rewrite a fairy story
4.8 Story consequences
Variation 1 New Year’s resolutions
4.9 Five-line poem
4.10 What’s in his pocket?
4.11 Speaking to the world
4.12 Create an island
4.13 Create a soap opera

5. Mainly reading

DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY
5.1 What’s my mime?

IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
5.2 Telepathy (texts)
Variation 1 Guess the preferences of others
5.3 Flashing a text
5.4 Texts word by word

CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP
5.5 Pelmanism (reading)

ORDER
5.6 Jumbled texts
Variation 1 Stand in order
5.7 Proverbs

REMEMBER
5.8 Running dictation
5.9 Memorise and draw
5.10 Pass the message

6. Mainly vocabulary and spelling

IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE
6.1 Feely game
Variation 1 Touch and describe
Variation 2 Identify an object and its owner
Variation 3 Identify by listening to a voice
Variation 4 Identify by listening to an object
Variation 5 Identify by smelling
Variation 6 Identify by tasting
Variation 7 Identify by looking
Variation 8 Building up a picture
Variation 9 Strip of a magazine picture
6.2 I spy
6.3 Silent speaking
6.4 Stories in ten words
Variation 1 Key words in a topic
Variation 2 Word webs
6.5 Mime and guess
Variation 1 Personal lists
6.6 Guess what I am drawing

CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP
6.7 Word associations
Variation 1 Personal lists
6.8 Odd-one-out
Variation 1 They’re all odd!
Variation 2 Somebody must go!

ORDER
6.10 Hangman spelling
Variation 1 Words with letters in common

REMEMBER
6.11 A long and growing list
6.12 Kim’s memory game
Variation 1 Numbers and plural forms
Variation 2 Adjectives and comparisons
Variation 3 Containers
Variation 4 Actions in the past
Variation 5 Describe and compare
6.13 Would you make a good witness?

CREATE
6.14 Change the story

7. Mainly grammar

DO: MOVE, MIME, DRAW, OBEY
7.1 Simon says
Variation 1 Film director
Variation 2 Magicians, hypnotists and robots
Variation 3 Forfeits
7.2 Can you stand on one leg?
7.3 Miming
Variation 1 Present continuous and present simple
Variation 2 Present simple
Variation 3 Simple past
Variation 4 Past continuous
Variation 5 Past continuous interrupted by the past simple
Variation 6 Present perfect
Variation 7 Present perfect continuous
Variation 8 Future with going to
Variation 9 Future in the past
Variation 10 Future in the past and simple past

IDENTIFY: DISCRIMINATE, GUESS, SPECULATE 7.4 Drama of sounds
Variation 1 Mystery action and person
7.5 Telepathy (pictures)
7.6 Random sounds
7.7 Dramatised sequence of sounds
7.8 Paper fortune-teller
Variation 1 Inventing fortunes for friends
7.9 Why did they say that?
7.10 Objects in a box
7.11 Where’s the mouse
Variation 1 Hiding place
7.12 Twenty questions
7.13 Flashing a picture
Variation 1 Flashing a text
7.14 How long is it?
Variation 1 How wide is it?
Variation 2 How big is it?

DESCRIBE
7.15 Riddles
Variation 1 Riddle and write
Variation 2 Riddles and questions

CONNECT: COMPARE, MATCH, GROUP
7.16 Pelmanism (grammar)
Variation 1 Phrasal verbs
Variation 2 Knowledge quiz
7.17 Bingo grammar
Variation 1 Bingo parts of speech

ORDER
7.18 Delete a word
7.19 Word by word

REMEMBER
7.20 Picture the scene
Variation 1 Picture in groups
Variation 2 Clothes
Variation 3 A mini drama
7.21 Kim’s memory game (Variation 6 and 7)
Variation 6 Present perfect, past simple, prepositions
Variation 7 Present perfect and comparisons

CREATE
7.22 Alibis
7.23 Passing on a story
Variation 1 Remembering and continuing a story
7.24 Interrupting a story
7.25 Pattern poems

8. Solo games
8.1 Folding vocabulary book
8.2 Cards
8.3 Match the cards
8.4 Match the halves
8.5 Word snakes
8.6 Odd-one-out
8.7 Different groups of words
8.8 Mind map
8.9 Word sun
8.10 Steps
8.11 Add a word
8.12 Add a sentence
8.13 Favourites
8.14 Lose the vowels
Variation 1 Remember the vowels
8.15 Write a crazy story
8.16 Write a dramatic dialogue
8.17 Be dramatic
8.18 Make a crossword

Index

"If you think games are just for young learners, think again. Games provide meaningful and enjoyable language practice at all levels and for all age groups. They can be used to practise any of the skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing - at any stage of the learning process, from controlled repetition through guided practice to free expression.

This completely revised edition of the 'classic' title Games for Language Learning has been restructured to enable busy teachers to navigate it with ease and select the activities most suitable for each of their classes. The games can be integrated easily into existing coursework. There is a new section on solo games for independent learners and the games have been selected to cater for a variety of learning styles." (Book Cover)