1.

Tides in / tides out Attentiveness, Listening skills

● Draw a line representing the seashore and ask students to stand behind the line.
● When the teacher shouts “Tides out!”, everyone jumps forwards over the line.
● When the teacher shouts “Tides in!”, everyone jumps backwards over the line.
● If the teacher shouts “Tides out!” twice, students needs to be still..
● One who moves will be out of game.

2. Five islands Attentiveness, Listening skills, Team work

● Divide the class into 5 groups.

● Draw five circles using chalk on the floor, big enough to accommodate all of the
students participating in the game.
● Give each island a name. Ask everyone to choose the island that they would like
to live on.
● Then warn participants that one of the islands will sink into the sea very soon
and participants on that island will be forced to move quickly to another island.
● Allow the suspense to build and then call out the name of the island that is
sinking.
● Participants run to the other four islands.
● The game continues until everyone is squashed onto one island.

3. Front - Back Attentiveness, Listening skills

● Ask students to stand in a line

● When teacher says FRONT, students should jump forward.
● When teacher says BACK, students should jump backwards.
● Teacher should repeat the orders in shuffled manner.
3. Blindfold Team work, Listening skills, Collaboration

● Ask students to split in three groups.

● Draw a rough sketch of a girl face (as given in picture).
● One of the students from opposite team blindfolds the student
● Student from each group to come and draw a bindi exact in between the
eyebrows.
● Team can guide the student to reach blackboard by guiding the directions, right,
left, middle, up, down etc and finally put bindi. parallely, opposite team can
distract the person saying left, right, up, down, no no wrong side etc
● Each team gets only 60 seconds to complete the task.
● And, one point for one rightly put bindi.
● Team who get more points is the winner.

4. Walk and Stop Attentiveness, Listening skills, Concentration

● Ask all the students to spread around the classroom.

● Say walk and the students should walk in any direction.
● Say stop and the students should stop where they are.
● If any student move, he/she is out of the game.
● Do it for couple of rounds.
● For the next 3 rounds, students should do the opposite.
● For example: Say walk and the students should stop.
● Say stop and the students should start walking.
● If any one miss the instructions, he/she is out of the game.

6. I like you because Communication skills, Interpersonal skills

● Ask students to sit in a circle.

● And say what they like about the person on their right.
● It can be about their helping nature, play with me etc.
● Give them time to think about it first!
7. Four Corners Attentiveness, Listening skills, Concentration

● Give number to each corner of the room say- 1, 2, 3 and 4.

● Ask one student to stand in the centre with his eyes closed and start to count
from 10 to 0.
● Meanwhile other students tiptoes silently to go and stand in any of the
corners.
● Everyone must be at the corner when the center student says 0.
● He/she with his eyes closed should choose any number between 1-4.
● Students in that corner are out and return to their seats.
● Next the students redistribute themselves and the center student to choose
the other number and the game continues until one student is left.

8. Fruit salad Attentiveness, Listening skills, Concentration, Team work

● Divide the students into group of three to four.

● Name each group with name of fruits- such as oranges and bananas.
● Ask students to stand in a circle. One student should stand in the middle of the
circle.
● The facilitator shouts out the name of one of the fruits, such as ‘oranges’, and all
of the oranges must change places with one another.
● The person who is standing in the middle tries to take one of their places as they
move, leaving another student in the middle.
● The new person in the middle shouts another fruit and the game continues.
● A call of ‘fruit salad’ means that everyone has to change seats.
9. I’m going on a picnic
Attentiveness, Listening skills, Concentration
and I’m taking a …
● This is a guess the rule type game.
● Think of which items can be taken on a picnic, for example, it must be six letters
long, or it must start with a vowel.
● In this example, the rule is that the word must be an uncountable noun.
● Teacher: I’m going on a picnic and I’m taking milk. Student A: I’m going on a
picnic and I’m taking eggs. Teacher: No, you can’t take eggs. Student B: Can I
take orange juice? Teacher: Yes, you can take orange juice. And so on.
● Continue adding items to your picnic list until a student correctly guesses the rule
(the choices don’t have to make sense within the picnic scenario e.g. love,
information, air ).
● When you’ve finished, invite the students (alone or in pairs) to come up with their
own rules and let them run the game.

10. Balloon Volleyball Attentiveness, Team work

• Ask the students to form 2 teams standing opposite to each other on the ground.
( same position when we play volleyball )
• Instead of using a ball you have to use a balloon to pass it to the opposite team.
• Each team has to throw the balloon to the opposite team and if the balloon falls
within their boundary, the other team gets a point.

• If it reaches the opposite team they have to hit it back so their team does not lose
points.

• Continue until one team reach 5 points.

11. The Sun Shines on Attentiveness, Listening skills, Concentration

● Ask students to sit or stand in a tight circle with one person in the middle.
● The person in the middle shouts out “the sun shines on...” and names a colour or
clothing that some in the group possess.
○ For example, “the sun shines on all those wearing blue” or “the sun shines
on all those wearing socks” or “the sun shines on all those with brown
eyes”.
● All the participants who have that things/quality must change places with one
another.
● The person in the middle tries to take one of their places as they move, so that
there is another person left in the middle without a place.
● The new person in the middle shouts out “the sun shines on...” and names a
different colour or type of clothing.

12. Name-place-animal-thing
● Ask students to be seated.
● Ask students to divide the page of their notebook into four parts: Name, Place,
Animal, Thing.
● Request one student to come in front of the class and tell the alphabets. Ask
them to stop randomly.
● The student says what letter he stopped at, and the players have to write down
the names of a person, animal, thing, and place starting with that letter.
13. Freeze tag
● Teacher should pick 2 students from the class.
● Name one as Blue and another one is Yellow.
● Blue can tag anyone from class who are runner aground, they become
Freezed.
● Yellow can untag them and unfreeze.
● After a time gap calculate freezed and unfreezed members in the class.
● If freezed are more, then Blue is winner, and vice versa.

14. Pass the ball

● Ask all the students to sit in a circle.
● Turn the music on and ask all the students to pass the ball to his/her left
side.
● When the music stops, student holding the ball is out and he/she should
talk about his favourite food or sports or place in 5 sentences.
● Encourage them to speak in english.
● Continue the game with the rest of the students.
● Ask each student to talk about their likes/dislikes/hobby/aims.

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● Ask all the students to stand in a row.

● On a ‘GO’ command, students should reach the other end either by hoping,
skipping, walking or running on their back.
● First student to reach the other end wins the race.
16. Identify the words: 10 mins
• Divide all the students into two teams. Say Team A and Team B
• Write 10-15 incorrect vocabulary words on the board relating to our body parts.
• For example- noes, eyse, fingers, hands, haed, heir, lig, shoulder, ;stomach and
so on.
• Ask two students from both the teams to come to the board.
• Give hint for one of the words like- I have 10 in my hands.
• First one to answer and circle the word and correct the spelling.
• If required give 2nd or 3rd hint.
• To earn an extra point, next 2 students from both the team to come and quickly
write the correct spelling of that word.
• Continue with the rest of the students until everyone has finished their turn.
• The team will get points if they are correct or incorrect the opposite team will get
points.
• The team wins who gains more points.

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● Ask the students to sit in a circle.

● Pick one student from the circle.
● On the ‘go’ command, first student should say his/her favourite colour and pass
the ball to his/her left side of the circle.
○ For example: I like red colour.
● Continue until all the students have finished their first round.
● For the second round ask them to use ing in their sentence and pass the ball.
○ For example: I like dancing, it is raining and so on.
● Educate them to say the complete sentence.
● Correct them wherever required.
[Link] the lie
● Materials
• small pieces of paper, one for each student
● Procedure
○ Give each student a small piece of paper.
○ Tell them to write three pieces of information about themselves on the
○ piece of paper. Two of these bits of information must be true, one is a lie.
■ My name is Saroja. (True)
■ I am married .(False)
■ I visited Dharwad. (True)
○ Tell the students to stand up and to hold their pieces of paper in front of
them.
○ They should walk around the classroom, read the information about
○ people and see if they can guess which statement is a lie.

[Link] the clap

● Ask the students to stand in a circle.

● If the strength of the students is more, divide the students into 2 groups and make 2
circles.
● Send a clap around the circle.
● The group tries to move the clap around the circle faster and faster with as much
synchronization as possible.
● One person starts (person A).
● They turn to the person next to them (person B) and the two clap at the same time
while making eye contact, as synced as possible.
● Person B then turns to person C and they clap at the same time.
● The clap continues like this around the circle.
● The group should try to pass the clap more and more quickly with as many perfectly
synchronized claps as possible.
20. Howdy Howdy
● Ask students to stand in a circle.
● One student walks around the outside of the circle and taps someone on the
shoulder.
● That person walks the opposite way around the circle, until the two people meet.
● They greet each other three times by name, in their own language.
● The two people then race back, continuing in opposite directions around the
circle, to take the empty place.
● Whoever loses walks around the outside of the circle again and the game
continues until everyone has had a turn.

21. Dog and the bone

● Split the group in two with one group on each side of the playing area along a
line.
● Place a ball/cloth (the bone) in the middle of the playing area.
● Each team must be numbered 1 to 12 (change this depending on group size).
● Teacher shouts a number and the two people with that number (on opposite
teams) must try to get the bone before the other one.
● When one gets the bone, the other can try to tag them before they get back to
their team line.
● The team scores points depending on how many times they manage to get the
bone.

22. Fish race

Ask the students to draw a fish of medium size on a waste paper.
● Ask them to cut the outline of the fish.
● Pair up the students, 4-5 pairs can perform the fish race.
● Ask them to come towards the teacher’s table and stand on one end.
● Keep the paper fish in front of them and start to blow the paper fish till it
reaches the other end of the table.
● The fish that reaches the other end first, will be the winner.
● Other students should cheer the players.
 23. Guess the picture
● Materials
○ blackboard
● Procedure
○ One person comes to the front and starts to draw a picture.
○ The students must try to guess what the picture is before the person has
○ finished drawing it.
○ The person who guesses correctly comes to the front to draw another Picture.

23. Find someone who….

● The teacher should write on the board and the students should copy it. For
example,
○ ...… likes singing
○ ...… rides cycle
○ …... has two older brothers
○ ...… likes dance
● The students then stand up and have to ask each other questions to find
someone who "likes singing" or "likes dance".
● When they find someone they must write their name on the game sheet. They
should find a different person for each statement.
● The first person to complete their game sheet is the winner.

[Link] weekend?
● Give each student a slip of paper
● Ask each student to write down three things they did at the weekend.
● Collect up the slips of paper and randomly read each one out.
● The students must guess whose weekend is being described.
[Link] Likes
● Ask students to sit in circle.
● One student should start the game by saying "my name is.." and a colour he/she
likes.
○ For example "My name is Kiran and I like the color purple."
○ The next person says "This is Kiran and he likes the color purple and my
name is Savita and I like blue."
○ The next person says "That is Kiran he likes purple, this is Savita and she
likes blue and I am Mahesh and I like the color pink."
○ It's a chain and the students have to repeat what the last people have said
about themselves.

[Link] and word

● Ask students to sit in a circle.
● Teacher should pick one student and ask him/her to say an Alphabet.
○ Student says ‘D’.
● All other students in the circle should say one word starting from D.
● After the completion of one circle, teacher should pick another student to say
another alphabet.

[Link] Tag
● Teacher should draw two boundary lines at two ends of a room.
● One student stands in the middle of two boundary [Link]/she is a tagger.
● The rest of the kids line up at one boundary line.
● When tagger says GO they run towards other boundary line.
● Whoever the tagger tags has to stay and help him.
● Taggers should not move. They can tag others only moving their arms.
● This goes back and forth and last person to remain is winner.
 28. Action time
● Ask the students to stand in a circle.
● Say a particular word and the students have to do the action.
● For Example
○ Sit: All the students should sit. ( one time )
○ Similarly say jump, say Hi, stand on one leg, twist your hip, turn right,
walk 3 steps forward, bend down and so on.
○ The one who misses will be out.

29. Sharks are coming/fire in the mountain/ fire in the motor

● Children walk around the room and the teacher should shout "The Sharks are
coming",
● The children shout "How many?".
● The teacher then shouts out a number and the children must get into groups of the
number shouted.
● The children who are left out, are out!

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● Ask all the students to stand in a circle leaving one hand distance.
● Start playing any song either from your phone or by holding a spoon and a
plate.
● When the music is on, all the students should starting dancing.
● When the music stops, all the students should freeze or halt where they are.
● If any one moves when is music is off, they are out of the game.
● Continue until one or two student is left at the end.
[Link] command
● Ask students to stand in a circle.
● Teacher should play music.
● When the music starts students should pass the ball or any object around the
circle.
● Teacher can stop music in few seconds, once the music is stopped students
should stop passing the ball.
● The student who is holding ball will act or sing a song or anything requested by
the team or teacher.
● Later game continues in same way for rest of others excluding, the student who
performed.
32. Name game

• Ask the students to sit in a circle.

• Students need to pass the ball in a circle by saying their first name.
• When the first circle is complete, students should randomly throw the ball and
that student to say the name of the student who threw it.
• Continue until all the students have finished their turns.

[Link] your memory

● Materials:
○ 15-20 small objects and a cloth to cover them, paper and pencils
● Procedure:
○ The teacher or trainer collects 15-20 small objects, eg, a pencil, a leaf, a
rubber, a book, a paper clip, a stone, etc.
○ The teacher picks one object up at a time and holds them up and the
students call out what it is.
○ When the teacher has shown all the objects he/she cover them with a
cloth.
○ The students must write down all the objects they can remember.
○ The one who has remembered the most objects is the winner.
[Link] five
● Divide the class into 3 groups .
● Write below questions on blackboard.
● For example:
1. Jobs where you have to wear a uniform
2. Sports that are played with a ball
3. Foods that contain egg
4. Birds that lay eggs
● Three letter parts of the body – eye, arm, leg, hip, ear, toe jaw, rib, lip,
● Group which finishes first with highest correct answer is the winner.

35. Blind
● Pick on person from the class to be the caller. They have to be blindfolded, or
close their eyes.
● Name the four corners of the classroom (the names can be anything, e.g.
flowers, food, names of places etc...)
● The rest of the class have 30 seconds to run to one of those corners.
● The caller then shouts the name of one of the corners.
● Whoever is in this corner have to do an activity (10 jumping jacks, 10 sit ups, 10
wall push ups, dancing , singing).

36. Exercise Circle

● Ask students to stand in a circle.
● They should stand an arm’s length apart so that they have enough space to
move.
● Teacher should choose one leader and have them go to the middle of the circle.
● It is up to the leader to do one exercise and the rest of the class will follow.
● The exercise can be anything from jumping jacks to sit-ups.
● Teacher can choose 3-4 students one after the other.
37. Make a Letter
● Ask students to run in a circle.
● Teacher should call out a letter.
● And, students running in circle should arrange themselves to
form the letter called out by teacher.
● For Example:

38. Frog

● Get two students to be 'frogs' (squat down and have to jump like frogs.)
● they should work together to get everyone stuck in the mud by touching them.
Nobody can run or get up when they are stuck in the mud!

39. Backward theater

● For this funny theater performance, one “actor” sits on the “stage” (a table, for
example) and pretends to be a depressed person.
● The actor spends three minutes looking silently and seriously at the audience.
Meanwhile, the audience members do everything they can to get the actor to
laugh, or at least to smile, without touching the actor (so, no tickling).
● They make faces, tell jokes, and clown around.
● Can they get the actor to grin before the three minutes are up? If he grins or
the time runs out, the actor chooses a replacement to play in the next round.

[Link] The Book

● Ask all the students to stand in a row.
● On the ‘Go’ command, all the students should balance one book on their head
and walk towards the other end of the classroom/ground..
● Students who successfully balance the book and reach the end point, they
will win the game.
 [Link] name
● Ask the students to sit in a circle.
● The teacher will hold the ball first and start the exercise by Introducing
herself/himself as below:
○ My name is ________ and In my free time I like to paint.
○ Painting is my favourite pastime.
● Now pass the ball to the next person encouraging them to do the same.
● Students can also look on the board and say what they like to do in their free
time.

[Link] action
• Ask the students to form a circle.
• Ask them to follow the instructions.
• For example - On saying jump, everyone should jump once or twice.
• Similarly instruct the students to do the following actions or pretend to do so:
• wave your hands, walk, stop, cry, turn around, skip, eat, jump, say Hi,
stand on one leg, twist your hip, turn right, walk 3 steps forward, bend
down and so on.

[Link] in a year
● Ask the students to stand in their respective places.
● Teacher will start saying the months in the order.
● Students will repeat it with the teacher followed by the claps.
● Eg: If the teacher says January, the students will say January and then they
Clap,3 times.
● February, claps.
● Similarly follow the same thing with the days of the weeks.
● Teacher will point out each month as they say it aloud.
● Randomly point out 4-5 students, ask them to act like the teacher.
● Shout out the months and the students will follow you.
43. Names in the air
● Ask students to write their name in the air first with their right hand, then
their left hand.
● Finally, ask them to write their name in the air with both hands at the same
time.
● Once they practice this activity, students should come forward one after the
other to come forward and write any name in the air with both the hands
and others should guess it.
● Continue the activity in the same manner and add difficult words for fun.

44. Energizer

● Have the children form a large circle, sitting down, facing inward with the
teacher sitting in the middle of the circle. On the teacher's command "1,2,3,
Freeze!" all the students in the circle must freeze while sitting. If a student moves
they are eliminated. Continue playing until only a few students remain. Students
cannot lie down, hold their head up, or close their eyes. There is no arguing with
the teacher when eliminated and only the teacher can eliminate students.

[Link] and mouse

● Choose 5 students of the class to be cats, everyone else is a mouse and wears a
tail (Handkerchiefs) in the back of their shorts.
● The mice run around and the cats try to catch them by pulling the tails out.
● Make sure tails are showing before starting and ask cats to collect tails that they
pull out.
● Count the tails at the end and the cat with the most tails is the winner.
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● Ask students to sit in a circle.

● One leader thinks of a category, such as “Fruit”.
● And everyone should name a fruit within a limited time period.
● Leader usually counts to five.
● If someone takes too long time to give an answer or incorrect answer, then that
student is out.
● In the end, only one student remains.

47. Touch something blue

● Ask students to stand up.
● Explain that you will tell everyone to find something blue, and that they have to
go and touch it.
● This could be a blue shirt, pen, shoe or whatever.
● Continue the game in this way with different colours and set the time limit as 30
seconds or 1 minute.
● You can call out on suggestions for things to touch.

48. Banana game

● A piece of chalk or other objects such as a bunch of keys is selected.
● The students stand in a circle with their hands cupped behind their backs.
● Choose one student to stand in the middle.
● The teacher walks around the circle and secretly slips the banana/keys into
someone’s hand.
● The banana/key is then secretly passed, from one student to other, along the
circle from one hand to another.
● The student in the middle should observe and guesses who has the chalk
piece/keys.
● When successful, the student takes that place in the circle and the game
continues
with a new person in the middle.
[Link] Light Green Light
● Traffic light game:
○ Teacher calls out the instructions and pretends to direct traffic.
○ The others follow the instructions.
○ If "RED" is called then everyone must stand still and silent.
○ If "GREEN" is called then everyone moves around quite fast.
○ If "YELLOW" is called then everyone moves around in slow motion.
○ Take it in turns to direct the traffic and shout the instructions.
● Talk about the traffic rules for the Land Transport:
○ Land transport : Traffic signals.

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● Teacher picks one child to call out some instructions; for example, “Let’s
stand on our chairs!”
● In response, the others immediately cry out, “All right!” and follow the
suggestion.
● After that it might be, “Let’s throw our pencil cases up in the air,” or, “Let’s
shake our neighbors’ hands.” Each time, all the children yell, “All right!” before
following the instructions.
● After the third time, the person shouting out the instructions chooses a new
child to call out instructions by saying, “Now Mariah is going to tell us what to
do,” and again, the children delightedly cry out, “All right!”
51. Dancing on paper
● Teacher prepare equal sized sheets of newspaper
● Participants split into pairs.
● Each pair is given either a piece of newspaper or cloth.
● They dance while the teacher plays music or claps.
● When the music or clapping stops, each pair must stand on their sheet of
newspaper.
● The next time the music or clapping stops, the pair has to fold their paper half
before standing on it.
● After several rounds, the paper or cloth becomes very small by being folded
again and again.
● It is increasingly difficult for two students to stand on.
● Pairs that have any part of their body on the floor are ‘out’ of the game.
● The game continues until there is a winning pair.

53. Group Statues

● Divide the students into two groups.

● Ask the groups to move around the room, freely swinging their arms and gently
relaxing their heads and necks.
● After a short while, shout out a word. The group must form themselves into
statues that describe the word.
● For example, the facilitator shouts “laugh”. All the participants have to instantly
adopt, without talking, poses that show what ‘laugh’ means to them.
● Repeat the exercise several times with different words for them to pose.

54. Port/starboard
● Ask students to stand in the centre of the room.
● If the leader shouts “Starboard”, everyone runs to the right. If they shout “Port”,
everyone runs to the left.
● If they shout “Man the ship”, everyone runs back to the centre.
[Link] of war
● Split the class into 2 teams.
● Each team takes one end of the rope.
● The teams have to pull on the rope to bring the opposite team towards them.

[Link] the message

● Ask all the students to sit in a circle.
● Whisper a sentence ( example: I like to play volleyball )into the ear of the first
student.
● That student will now whisper what he/she heard to the next student and
continue until the last student has finished his/her turn.
● Please note: Sentence can be repeated only once.
● When the message reaches the last student, he/she should say that sentence
loudly to see how much the sentence has changed from the first whisper.
● Most of the time the sentence will be entirely different.

57. Energizer
● Ask the students to run in a circle.
● Once they complete one round ask them to sit in a circle.
● Ask them to draw a picture of any vegetable or fruit they like or any thing they
carry to school.

58. Mirroring
● To play the game, each student should find a partner.
● Choose one partner to start doing various motions.
● They move their harms, legs, or do any other motions.
● The child’s partner will try to mirror their motions.
59. Categories
● Ask students to sit in a circle.
● One student thinks of a category, such as Movies.
● In a circle, everyone must take a turn thinking of a Movie title.
● If someone takes too long to give an answer (the leader should count to five)
then that student is out
● And a new category begins. If someone gives an answer that doesn't make
sense or is incorrect, he is also out of the game.
● For example, if the category is VEGETABLES and someone says "banana" that
student is out.
● The game continues until only one person is left!

60. Individual activity

● Divide the class into 2 teams.
● Call one student from the first team and give them a word ( say swimming ) and
that student should act it ( without actual talking ) in front of this team.
● His/her team has to identify the word and say the word loudly.
● If the team answers it, they get a point.
● If they are unable to find out the word, teacher can help them or give them a
clue.
● Next call up a student from the other team and give a different word to act.
● For example:
○ Hot, cold, rain, windy, jump, dance, eat, drink, hop, skip.
○ Teacher can also include other words if required.
● Help them to say the words in English.
61. Arm swings
● Arm Circles or Swings:
○ Ask students to hold arms stretched from shoulders and turn in small
circles.
○ Or swing arms forward and back from the shoulder.
○ Do it for both the arms.
● After that ask them to run in one circle and sit.

62. Who are you?

● Ask students to sit in their respective places.
● Ask one student to leave the room.
● While one student is away, the rest of the participants decide any fruit name.
● Students to mimic clues of fruit.
○ For example:
■ Banana: Act peeling of banana and eating it.
● When the volunteer returns, he must guess which fruit is it.

63. Walking backward

● Ask all the students to stand in a row at one end of the ground.
● On the ‘GO’ command all the students should race with each other
to reach the other end.
● Catch is : Instead of walking forward they have to walk
backward. ( facing their back at front )
● First student to reach the other end wins the race.
64. Pair activity
• Ask all the students to stand in pairs.
• Each student has to remember their partner.
• Now ask one student from each pair to form an inner circle and the rest to form
the outer circle.
• Turn on the music ( either using your phone or use a spoon and a plate to create
the sound ) and the students standing outside has to walk in a clockwise and the
students standing inside has to walk in a anticlockwise( opposite direction ).
• When the music stops, each student to walk or run towards their partner and
hold their hands.
• Students who are unable to find their partner at a quicker rate, is out of the
game.
• Continue until only one pair is left at the end.

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● Ask all the students to gather at one place.

● Start the music and students should start dancing.
● Stop the music and students should pause or freeze where they are.
● If they move, they are out of the game.
● Continue the game for 5 mins.

66. Blackout

● Pick around 2-5 kids (depending on how many are in class) and blindfold them.
● Then ask others to find a space and stay there, but make sure they don't go too
far.
● Ask others to talk and giggle and shout 'Here I am!' to help the blindfolded, but
remember, they cannot move!
● The blindfolded ones have to try and find the others. If they find and touch one,
they have to go and get a blindfold and join in too! The last one not found, wins!
● OR if you don't have enough blindfolds(handkerchiefs), the ones who have been
found have to run around, tapping the blind ones and talking to confuse them.
[Link],ZAP,ZOP
● Ask the students to stand in a circle.
● The first player claps and says ‘zip’ to player 2.
● Player two has to clap and say ‘zap’ to player 3.
● Player 3 then claps and says ‘zop’ to player 4.
● The pattern continues with children clapping and saying ‘zip’,
‘zap’ and ‘zop’.

68. Run to …

● Start with the children spaced out.

● Name an object in the room (e.g. something yellow, a wall, your best friend,
teacher etc.).
● The children have to run over to that object, get down on their knees and
'worship' the object by repeatedly bowing and exclaiming 'oh,(wall) we love you'.
● Change the object continuously and give children different options so they're not
all in one corner (e.g. a wall, a window) and identify good examples of ways to
get up quickly to the class.

[Link],dance,dance

● Organize the group into teams of 3-5 students.

● Explain that when the music starts one person in each group starts dancing, the
others follow the leaders.
● When the song changes, another member in each group becomes the new
dance leader.
● Encourage them to make different, funky dance moves and to move around in
the space.
● Change the song every 30 seconds or so.
● Play enough songs so that each member in every group gets to be the leader at
least once.
● End by fading out the music and initiating a big cheer.
[Link] runner

● Ask students to stand in the circle.

● Pick one student to run inside the circle.
● Once he/she completes one round inside the circle, he/she should stop nearby
any student in the circle, ask him to tell one thing starting from C
○ Cat:

Activity should continue like this.

[Link]
● Draw the chart below onto the board
● Explain to the students that when you call out a number from the chart,
they will do the corresponding action.
● H-‐ stand up and shout “Hurray!” and sit down,
● C-‐stand up and give 3 quick claps and sit down,
● S-‐stand up and look at the person person next to you and give them a
dazzling smile.

H S C S
1 2 3 4

H C S S
5 6 7 8

C H C S
9 10 11 12

C H S H
13 14 15 16

C H C H
17 18 19 20
[Link]

● Start the game in a large open area, outdoors.

● Ask the students to move around freely.
● Then call a number, e.g. 4.
● The students should form small groups the size of the called number.
● Whoever has completed their Molecule, may hug each other.
● Those who could not form a Molecule, drop out and wait for the next round.
● Increase the complexity by naming two numbers, e.g. "4 and 5".

[Link] has changed

● Divide students into two groups.

● Partners observe one another and try to memorise the appearance of each other.
● Then one turns their back while the other makes three changes to his/her
appearance;
● For example, putting their watch on the other wrist, removing their glasses, and
rolling up their sleeves.
● The other player then turns around and has to try to spot the three changes.
● The players then switch roles.

74. Bang&turn
● The group stands in a circle. One person stands in the middle as the pointer
● The pointer quickly spins around and then points straight at one person in the
circle and says “bang!”
● The pointed-at person crouches as quickly as possible.
● The two people standing next to the pointed-at person must quickly point at
each other, shouting each other’s names.
● The person who is last to shout the name of the other is out of the game.
● Unless, the pointed-at person in the middle of those two does not crouch in time.
In that case, that person is eliminated.
● When there are only two people left, they stand with their backs to each other in
the middle of the room.
● The pointer calls out random numbers.
● On every number the pair takes a step away from each other.
● Then the player says ‘turn’ , who turns first and calls the opposite person’s name
will be the winner.
[Link] JUMP

● Ask students to stand in a line

● When teacher says FRONT, students should jump forward.
● When teacher says BACK, students should jump backwards.
● Teacher should repeat the orders in shuffled manner.

[Link] train

● Group of 10 or 12 students in one group.

● Ask the students to line up and connect among themselves to represent a train.
● Instruct the students to start the train slowly moves forward.
● Give commands during the journey such as fast, slow, move backward, turn left
and more.
● Students should listen to these commands and make changes as they move
together as a train and without breaking the chain they should reach the
designation.

77. Newspaper race

● Divide the students into 2 groups.

● Ask them to stand in a row.
● First student from both the group to get 2 newspaper pages.
● The first page should be on the floor in front of the first player.
● He/she stands on it and places the second page in front of him/her on the ground
and the race continues by placing the paper in front and moving ahead.
● They should continue until they both reach the end point.
● Paper is then passed on to their team members.
● Team who finishes first wins the race.
[Link] Walk
● Divide the class into 4 groups.
● First group to stand in a row towards one end of the ground.
● Students have to place a blown up balloon in between their knees.
● On the GO command, students have to race by walking in a small steps to reach
the other end.
● If the balloon is dropped on the way, they are out of the game.
● Continue with the rest of the teams until there is only one winner at the end.

[Link] &color
● Ask all the students to stand in a circle.
● Call out a color and a body part.
● Students should find an object in the room of that color and then touch the
object with the said body part.
● Eg: If the teacher calls out black pencil, WHITE EAR, BLACK PALM, BLUE HAIR,
GREEN EYES, YELLOW ELBOW.
● Teacher can add any available colour that is seen in the class.
● Eg: PENCIL FOREHEAD, RUBBER KNEE, SHOULDER WALL.
● Students need to find an object that is red and touch it with their nose.
● Students who fail to do the task will be out of the game.
● The last remaining student will be the winner.

[Link] it

● Ask all the students to stand in a circle.

● Say a particular word and students need to perform it.
● Example
○ Sit, jump, say Hi, stand on one leg, twist your hip, turn right, walk 3 steps
forward, bend down, walk 3 steps backward.
● Teacher can add their own words.
81. Group statues

● Ask the group to move around the room, loosely swinging their arms and gently
relaxing their heads and necks.
● After a short while, shout out a word.
● The group must form themselves into statues that describe the word. For
example, the facilitator shouts “peace”.
● All the participants have to instantly adopt, without talking, poses that show
what ‘peace’ means to them.
● Repeat the exercise several times.

82. Run&tell
● Ask all the students to stand in a circle.
● Pick one student to run inside the circle. ( one time )
● Once he/she completes one round inside the circle, he/she should stop near one
student , and ask him/her to share anything about them.
● For example:
★ Favourite colour, animal, place, food, sport, cinema and so on.
● Help them to talk about themselves either in their mother tongue or in english.
● Once he/she answers it, that student is out and the game continues for the next
student.

[Link] on my right

● Ask students to sit in a circle.

● The facilitator arranges for the space on their right to remain empty.
● They then ask a member of the group to come and sit in the empty space.
● For example, “I would like shantha to come and sit on my right”.
● Shantha moves and there is now a space on the right of another participant.
● The participant who is sitting next to the empty space calls the name of
someone different to sit on his or her right.
● Continue until the entire group has moved once.
● At the end pick a student to reseat in their old place.
84. Direction and Instruction activity
● Ask students to stand in a particular shape with their eyes close(+, 0, Square
Rectangle etc.)
● Some students should play role as observer. They are like Dinosaur they’ll eat
those who open their eyes.

Instructions.

1. One step forward

2. Two step at your right side
3. Turn back
4. Sit down
5. Move little backward

[Link] a story

● Teacher need to ensure about the characters to the students

● Create the Imaginary atmosphere of the story
● Students are not allowed to speek
● Student should show actions according to the narration of the story
● Finally teacher should Narrate the story with clear and simple language
[Link] the Balloon

● 1. Need to form into pairs that pairs should form in team

● 2. Stand one by one.
● 3. Need pencil and balloon (once we blow give to the participants).
● 4. When the time starts that pairs are going to jungle the balloon.
● 5. Make sure that one person gets only one chance to chance to jungle the
balloon they should not jungle twice.
● 6. If they miss the chance or jungle twice or if the balloon fall down they need to
start from the beginning.
● 7. If the 1st pair crossed the end line then only 2nd pair should start juggling the
balloon.
● 8. Like this it will continue………..

[Link] Rings
Half of the people who make a circle and equal number of people who around the 1st
circle and . Each person have three chits and have to write word on the each chit, in
1st chit, they write simple(V1) verb and 2nd chit, name of the thing which you use in
your daily life. In the 3rd chit you have to write any adjective. All the students who
have to stand in the both circles and like inner layer and outer layer. When say start
inner layer/ circle run right side. Outer team opposite. When say stop, stop. Ask them
to exchange their all three chits with others. Then say Start, they will start. Now, say
stop they will stop. Once they stop, tell them to tell their words and let them to make
simple sentences. This will be going continue.
 [Link] the cups
● Students stand in a circle.
● They have to count the numbers and have to divide equa number of groups.
● Split the groups four.
● There will 2 tables and each table have eight cups and 8 boxes. Two teams play
first and both teams have to stand at the starting line. When the teacher tells to
1 2 3 and start, then both team members run and blow the cup into the box and
that student use straw and blow the cup. Once the cup in fall inti the box, that
students job is done. Then that student run and tap his friend hand and next he
will go and blow. It's goes in the same way. Which team complete first, that
team will be considered the successful team.

[Link] activity
● Totally 10 letters chosen by the alphabet. Three are vowels and seven are
consonants. Split the group of four or equal number of groups. Give them ten set
of letters for each group and tell them clearly, you will have five minutes, within
five minutes you have to write words how much as possible. Which team write
more words that will team will be considered winner team and all teams one by
one have to come on the stage and need to show their cards and show the
letters and finally say like C-a-r, car. It goes same.
● Distribute the card sheets for all the groups and they have to write very familiar
words on that sheet but they have to use below given words.
● Food, school, clothes, friends, teacher, source of income, travel, me,
entertainment and etc.
● The main theme of the this activity is. We have to ensure all words which releted
to the students. I mean, similar words that is called the Synthetic phonics.
●
● Before going to explain about the synthesis phonics and embedded phonics,
they said to read these words.
●
● Ghoti, fight,fit, situation,pot,work,women,apple, village,father,pen,pollen,
entrepreneur,put,gut,future.
●
● Then, explained how to pronounce the words and letters in English with these
methods.
 [Link] and destination
● Tell Students to stand in a circle.
● Split four groups.
● Tell them, there will be starting line and endline.
● Tell them to stand in a circle and give two half of newspaper for all.
● Two teams are going to play this game first.
● They will have two papers and they have to use to reach the endline.
● Once they put a paper and sit on that and stand up and take that paper and
change the place.
● Once that person reach the goal of endline, the next person start.
● It goes same with all and which team successfully completed that steam will be
considered successful team.
● After this activity, asked few questions to teachers what are they learnt.

[Link] line
● Tell them to make in a circle.
● Tell them to count one to three and split the groups.
● Tell them to stand accordingly to their hight.
● Tell them to compare who is tallest and shortest.
● Who is shorter, they have to tell, I am the shortest in this team.
● Who is next to that person, he have to say I am tallest then Raju and I an
shorter then Mohan.
● Who is tallest, he say I am the tallest then all in my team.
● We can use the topics like, Age Length and hair also. This is really
interesting and we can use for our topics.
VIRTUAL
ACTIVITIES
 [Link] and Bring
● Teacher describes things or vegetables which students
can get in their home.
● Students need to find and show teacher with in given
specific time.
● Which students finds and shows it first that students will be
consider as a winner.
● Teacher will continues these for activity for 5 minutes.

Ex: 1. It is round, it is red, it has seeds, it is vegetable.

02. Draw and guess:(White board)

● Teacher gives access to students to draw any picture in
the white board.
● Teacher calls one by one student name to draw and
student draw any his/ her favorite picture in the white
board.
● Other students need to identify that picture.
● Who identifies that speaker that student speaks two lines
about that picture.
● If other students won’t find that picture the student who
drawn need to speak about picture.
03. Memory Activity:
● Teacher shows 15 to 20 objects images only for 3 minutes.
● Students need to observe it very carefully.
● After three minutes teacher stop showing objects.
● Teachers gives 2 minutes to remember all the objects
which they saw.
● Teacher ask students that objects names one by one.
● Who remember and tells maximum objects names that
students will be the winner of the activity.

[Link] the colour:

● Teacher tell any colours the class like red,yellow,black..
● Students need to find that colored objects and show
teacher.
● Who find first that student will win activity( teacher also ask
student to tell any two or three sentences on that objects).
05. Act and find:
(this activity can use for verbs/ professions)
● Teacher send any profession name or action word to any
one students through private chart.
● The student who gets that chart acts on that profession or
word.(students should turn on camera)
● Other students finds that profession or action.
● This activity continues for 5 or 10 minutes.

[Link] hidden words:

● Teacher shows a big word for students in the class.
● Students write/ find hidden words from that word.

Ex: Knowledge.( Hidden words:

now,know,no,low,new)

● Who write more words that students will be announced as a

winner.
● For this activity teacher should keep specific time to write words
for students.( 3 minutes)
[Link] and write:
● Teacher tell a letter for a students.
● Students write animal,bird,thing and village or city name
which start by the letter which is given by teacher.

Ex: ‘’ D” - Dog,Dove, Desk,Dharwad.

● Teacher let students to read words.

● Teachers can do it couple of time with any three or four
letters.

8. Describing picture:
( We can use for content)

● Teacher shows a picture to students using screen sharing.

● Teacher gives 3 minutes to students to describe that
picture.
● Who describes well in the class for them teacher can
consider winners.
09. Word chain:
● Teacher gives numbers to students.
● Teacher tell a letter to the number 1 students and that
student tells a word which start from that letter.
● Next number 2 student tells a word start from the letter
which ended by number 1 students.

Ex: number 1 student tells ‘Tomato’ , number 2 students

start word which start by ‘O’ ( O for orange).

10. Hidden objects:

● Teacher should show some pictures e.g A messy room, a
crowded beach.
● Teacher list 10 to 15 objects in the picture.
● Teacher can also tell list or hints to find that object.
● Student finds that object and circles that objects.
● Who finds first that student can speak about that object
any two sentences.
● Students can also tell the location of the objects.
11. Odd One Out:
● Teacher tells/ shows some objects ,with all but one which
having something in common. e.g
banana,apple,orange,carrot.
● Students identify which one does not belong to the group.
● Students can also tell they the object does not belong that
group.
● For more advanced students, you can use similar-sounding
words or parts of speech.e.g boot,root,room,hot.

[Link] truth and one lie:

● Teacher tells students to tell any two truth of them and one
lie e.g. I like mango, I cook food, I play on the sky.
● Other students need to find which one is lie and which are
truths.
● Teacher should ensure that all students get chance.
●
13. Sentence maker:
● Teacher shows/ gives jumbled words of parts of speak,
helping verbs.
● Students make meaningful sentences using those words.
● Teacher should ensure that students should complete their
sentences writing with in specific given time.
● Who creates more number of sentences that student will
be the winner.

14. Guess what?

● Teacher tells all students to find one object from their
room.
● Teacher ensure that the student start to give some hints to
other students to find out the object.
● Other students guess the object.
● Who guess correct object that students start giving hints
on his/her object.
● It goes like this for 5 minutes.
16. Match numbers.
● Teacher tells students to take a piece of paper and a pen.
● Teacher tells students to write a number between 1 to 5.
● The teacher tells any one number randomly between 1 to
5.
● The students who have written same number they are
winner.

[Link] Find…(Great to get the wiggles

out!)
● Set a timer for 20 seconds
● Give kids a description of an item- blue, spikey, round,
stringy, etc.
● Tell them to go find something that matches the
description
● Kids that don’t find anything or don’t make it in time are out
● Make descriptions harder or time shorter as you keep going
● Last one left is the winner
 [Link]
● Load Zoom’s whiteboard feature
● Send a private message to a child on what they will be
drawing
● Set a timer
● Have the child start drawing
● Whoever guesses the drawing within the time frame gets a
point!
● Most points wins

[Link], Place, Animal, or Thing

● Say a Letter
● Kids must think of a Name, Place, Animal, or Thing that
starts with that letter
● Whoever writes it in the chat box first wins that round and
gets a point
● Most points wins
OR ( DIfferent instruction for Same Activity)

Person, Place or Thing

● This fun alphabet game gives students practice
recognizing and naming nouns. Player
● one starts with the letter A and must name a person, place,
or thing that begins with the
● letter A (note: ‘person’ can be expanded to include any
living thing, if you wish). The
● next player must say a noun that starts with the letter B,
and so on. Play continues,
● giving each student a turn until you reach Z.

20. Charades (Great to get the wiggles

out!)
● Divide students into 2 teams
● Choose an activity (try using these Charades cards on
Quizlet!)
● Private message the student who will be acting out the
charade
● Set your timer
● Have the student act out the charade
● If their team can’t guess it within the time limit, the other
team gets the chance to guess (or a point)
21. Zoom Out
● Choose a high-resolution color photo (4k pixels or more) of a
common object or animal.
● Zoom in really close to any part of the image.
● Continue to Zoom out a little more every 30 seconds until
someone guesses it.
● First person to guess it right gets a point.
● Most points wins.

22. The Memory Game

● Make a tray full of random items (crayons, string, erasers,
tape, pencils, snacks, etc.)
● Move the tray into view of the camera
● Give students 10-20 seconds to memorize the tray
● Move the tray out of sight and take away one item
● Move the tray back into view
● See who can name the missing item first
● Winner gets a point
● Most points wins
23. Simon Says (Great to get the
wiggles out!)
● Make all students stand up
● Say, “Simon Says” and say an action
● All kids will repeat the action
● If you say to do an action without saying Simon says and kids
do the action, they are out
● Last one standing is the winner

24. 4 Corners
● Students grab a piece of paper and a pen
● They will write a number 1-6 on their paper and hold it up
● Teacher will roll the dice
● When it lands on a number, the students who wrote that
number are out
● Last one standing is the winner
25. Scattergories
● Use this free game generator
● Send each student a link
● Find the word that starts with all the categories
● Must start with the letter that is pictured
● Have students write their points down from each round
● Most points at the end wins

26.. 5 Second Rule

● Download the app Tuku Tuku – 5 Second Challenge
● Share your screen
● Choose the order which students will play and start the game
● Ask students to give 3 answers to each category on-screen
within 5 seconds
● Whoever can’t answer or reaches the time limit is out
● Winners move on to the next round
● Last one standing wins
27. I Spy
● Use your students’ backgrounds for this game to play. Pick an
item that can easily
● be seen by all students and share a clue. Students can raise
their hand when they have a guess.

OR ( DIfferent instruction for Same Activity)

● Test your students’ observation skills with a quick round of I

Spy.
● Choose an object from your onscreen background.
● For instance, “Ispy something green.”
● Students take turns guessing what the object is.
● You can also choose something from someone else’s
● background.
● For example, “I spy something in Taylor’s background
● that looks soft.”
28. Logo Quiz
Logo quiz is a fun game which can be played with older students. It is a
trivia game on different kinds of logos. The students can join in on the
Zoom app and start the logo quiz, while the host shares his Zoom app
screen. Then the participant who guesses the maximum number of
correct logos wins. You can show the answers by writing them in a
notepad and then all can show the notebook together towards the
screen.

How to Play games on Zoom?

● Select a game to play

● Have a Zoom account

● Have a PC/laptop (Windows/Mac/Linux)

● Install the Zoom app (The one hosting the game needs to have a PC
app, while

the others can use a PC/mobile app for Zoom)

[Link] Said
● In advance of a class session, send over a questionnaire
with a list of fun questions.
● Let them know that you may share these answers, so be
creative and do not share anything private.
● Then, go through and select one answer per question and
create a new list that you share with the class.
● Ask them to guess which student gave each answer.
● When you share who said it, let that student give a short
explanation (if they want) on their answer

30..Freeze Dance -
● Play music while students dance and then have them freeze
when
● the music stops. This is a great way to burn off energy and give
them a brain break.

[Link] Days -
● Pick a theme for each day of a week, such as Funny Hat Day,
Funny Hair Day, etc.
● Ask students to show up to virtual class with something that will
really get everyone laughing and talking.
[Link] Parade -
● Ask students to introduce a real or stuffed animal and play
some music
● while everyone shares their pets with the virtual class. Kids
will sometimes feel bolder
● showing their own personality when they are focused on
sharing a pet, so this is a great way to get shy kids engaging
with others.

[Link] A Minute
● You don’t need any resources for this game just the ability to
speak for 60 seconds about a
● specific [Link] organizer can choose topics or members
can contribute ideas which are selected a random using a
free randomizer online or by pulling out ideas from a bag.
● Once the topic has been chosen, player one starts to talk
about the topic for one minute and is timed against the clock.
● If other players feel there are too many ums, ahs and pauses,
they can raise their hand and the organizer can make a
decision.
● Also, if a fact is not true, other players can signal and the
organizer can step in.
34. Tomato Ketchup:
● One student is the detective.
● They turn on their mic and put their head down so they can't
see the screen.
● Everyone else is muted.
● The teacher selects a student who switches their mic on and
says 'tomato ketchup' in a funny or disguised voice.
● The detective has to guess the student!

[Link] & Draw :

● Describe to students how to draw an object like a butterfly

without revealing the object.
● Students share drawings and try to guess the object.
36. Quiz Games
● Quiz games are a perfect activity for virtual classrooms. All
students need is a pen and paper to write down their answers.
● There are many types of quiz, but one quiz game which kids
and teenagers really enjoy is the ‘top five’ quiz. In a ‘Top 5’ quiz,
each question has multiple possible answers. For example,
‘Name a zoo animal.’.
● Then, students must write down one answer. Next, ask the
students to show their answer using their webcam to the other
students in the virtual classroom.
● Once everyone has shown their answer, the teacher can reveal
the ‘Top Five’ answers.
● If a student’s answer is the same as one of the ‘top five’
answers, then they get points. If they have an answer which is
not in the top five, then they don’t get any points. Students really
enjoy this game, especially when they get the number 1 answer.
● You can download an example quiz, and an editable quiz
template to add your own questions, here.
● You can also find many fun quizzes on our online quizzes page.
This quizzes include interactive general knowledge quizzes,
vocabulary quizzes, grammar quizzes, and more.
[Link] And Draw
● For this next virtual classroom game, each student needs a
pencil and paper to draw on.

● This activity is a great way practice listening skills.

● First, the teacher should find something they want the

students to draw and place it off-screen where students
cannot see it.

● Next, the teacher should start describing the object and the
students should listen and draw what they think the object
looks like.

● Once the teacher has finished describing the object and the
students have finished drawing, ask the students to show
their drawings with the other members of the virtual
classroom. Next, show the students the object that you were
describing and see whose drawing resembles it the most.

● After playing one time you can also let a student be the one
who chooses an object and describes it.

● This game is a lot of fun, and kids especially find it funny

when they see all the different drawings from their
classmates.
● [Link] Lottery
● This game can be really fun, particularly if you are reading a
story that has something to do with good fortune, luck, loss,
or a similar topic.
● Start by painting the picture that they have just won the
largest lottery jackpot in history.
● Ask them to write down the 3 or 5 things that they would do
with the money and share it.
● Then, have them erase their answers. Now, tell them that
their best friend, brother or sister has just won the largest
jackpot in lottery history.
● Ask them to write down what they do now. This one really
shows character!

[Link] Said It -
● In advance of a class session, send over a questionnaire with a
list of fun questions.
● Let them know that you may share these answers, so be creative
and do not share anything private.
● Then, go through and select one answer per question and create
a new list that you share with the class.
● Ask them to guess which student gave each answer. When you
share who said it, let that student give a short explanation (if they
want) on their answer.

[Link] Reporter -
● Each session, choose a new group of students and let one
volunteer or choose one to be the reporter.
● Then, the reporter will interview the others, using anything
they have as a fake microphone.
● You may want to offer a list of questions for younger students
or for quieter groups.

[Link] Sound
● This is a fun activity that tests students’ power of perception.
With your hands out of sight from the camera, make a sound
with something.
● For instance, crumple up a piece of paper, strike a spoon on
the rim of a glass, or snap your fingers.
● Let students take turns guessing what they hear.
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● This is a fun word game that helps reinforce spelling and
vocabulary skills.
● Choose a category—for instance, animals. The first player will
name an animal. For example, dog.
● The next player must name an animal that starts with the last
letter of dog—like giraffe.
● The next player must name an animal that begins with the
last letter of giraffe and so on.

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● This silly activity takes just a couple of minutes and is sure to
get your group giggling.
● Name an object, for example, a tree or a lion.
● Each student must put their whiteboard (or a piece of paper
on top of a book) on top of their head and draw the named
object. When they think they are done, they take their
drawings off their head and show them to the group.
44.‘Three Words’ Ice Breaker
This is a good warm-up activity and it can also be useful to
discuss the importance of adapting to changing situations and
thinking on one’s feet.
Instructions
● Ask participants to agree on a random topic. It can be
anything from food to dogs, to rugby.
● Explain that each person should contribute with three words
to the story (and three words only at a time) and they will take
turns to contribute.
● Encourage the participants to say the first three words that
come to their mind. It does not matter if they make sense or
not.
● Try to move from one person to the other quickly.

45.5 Second Rule

● This fun game give students 5 seconds to name 3 things that
fit into a particular category, such as “Name 3 fiction books” or
“Name 3 insects.”
● Sounds easy, but five seconds isn’t much time! Buy the Five
Second Rule Jr. board game or get flashcards from
Quizlet online for free.
45.‘Big Lottery Win’ Warm-Up Activity
This game is good as a warm-up, for participants to familiarize
with each other and also to think [Link] can
discuss together or be separated into breakout rooms, depending
on the number of participants.
Instructions
● Explain to the participants to imagine that they have just won the
lottery. They have won 25 million Euros, GBP, dollars or any big
amount in the local currency of the country they are in.
● Give participants 5 minutes to list all the things they would do
with the money. There is no limit to the number of things they can
put down, as long as they can write them within 5 minutes.
● After 5 minutes are up, ask everyone to talk about their list and
discuss.
● If you wish to, you can then sort the items on the lists into logical
groups that you will find naturally evolve according to:
○ Material items
○ Friends and family
○ Travel and luxury
● Some other categories may also emerge
● Allow 5 minutes for the group to discuss the list. This normally
will occur very easily.
Online tools you can use
● Breakout rooms
● Online whiteboard, chat board, other collaboration tools such
as Padlet or Lino.

46.‘One Random Object’ Virtual Training

Activity
This icebreaker is a fun game, aimed at making participants feel
relaxed and creating a sense of community. You could also use it
as an energizer, if needed, when you sense that your participants
are losing focus.
Instructions
● Ask a participant to pick one random object that is in their
room and not tell anyone what it is.
● Explain that the other participants will have to guess what it
is, by asking questions that require a yes or no answer.
47.‘Time Machine’ Virtual Training
Activity
This activity is suitable for those who like history and as a trainer,
it can help you to introduce a bit of imagination to your icebreaker.
Instructions
● Ask your participants: ‘If you could go back or forward in time,
where would you go?’ ‘Why?’ You can then follow up with
questions such as ‘Is there a person you would like to meet?’
● Ask participants to share the answers.

Online tools you can use

● Online whiteboard, chat board, other collaboration tools such
as Padlet, Evernote, or Lino.
● Tools that allow you to create a survey, such as Survey
Monkey or Google Forms or a wiki, such as Slimiwiki.
●
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letter:
After some time your class will want to play some other games.
This is another game that will keep your class energetic. This is
also one of the best classroom games for teaching English.

● This is one of the simple games. Nothing much to explain.

● Give them 20 seconds. Explain during those 20 secs, that
they must find an object with the letter.
● For example, tell them to find something with A and start
counting 20,19,18…., then the students will bring
something with A Apple or Alphabet.
● Ask them to talk about the object they have.
● You can also make one of them a teacher and tell others
to be a student.
● This is really one of the most simple games. It also
increases the knowledge of students.
● This is also one of the most popular classroom games for
teaching English.
[Link] the Animal
How to Play –

● This is a great game for younger kids. One player thinks of

an animal and the other player asks questions to figure out
what animal it is. Simple and fun.

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Instructions

● Hangman is a simple game of trying to guess a word or

phrase. To do this on Zoom, one player will share their screen
so everyone can see the Zoom Whiteboard.
● Then they use the annotation tools to draw out a Hangman
board.
● Next, each player takes a turn guessing a consonant or vowel
to see if they can figure out what the word or phrase is.
● Players need to figure out the word before they run out of
guesses on the Hangman.
 Top 10 Tools for Distance Learning
Activities
1. Peardeck: Enhance your presentations with
interactive polls that provide instant student
feedback. Students follow along on their own
devices to increase engagement. Learn more here.
2. Wordwall: From game shows to puzzles,
Wordwall has tons of templates or the ability to
customize your own game.
3. Baamboozle Games: A quiz game that is great for
end of unit review or pre-assessment. Students
can play in teams. Check out the library of STEM
resources here.
4. Breakout Game: Everyone loves an escape room!
Check out Breakout EDU for some free options.
Students can play independently or in breakout
rooms.
5. Go Noodle: Take a dance break! Have students up
and moving with movement and
mindfulness videos created by child development
experts.
6. Kahoot Quiz: Host a live interactive kahoot quiz
via videoconferencing. Questions are displayed on
a shared screen, and students answer on their devices.
Click here to learn more or watch this introduction video.
1. Gymkit: Another great live quiz tool found here.
Students answer on their own devices and earn
in-app cash for upgrades and power ups.
2. Flipgrid: We love Flipgrid! Set-up topic boards for
your class and have students submit video
responses. Videos are moderated by teachers to
create a safe environment. We use Flipgrid for
students to share sparks and introduce themselves
in the beginning of the year. Read here for using
Flipgrid with STEM, this is a great intro video, and
here is a great series of how-to guides.
3. Seesaw: A popular tool for teachers, we love using
Seesaw for students to submit remote assignments.
Students “show what they know” using photos,
videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. All work is in
one place moderated by teachers and can easily be
shared with families. Learn more here.
4. Edpuzzle: How can you know if students actually
watch assigned videos? With Edpuzzle, upload or
link any video and add commentary and
comprehension questions to personalize it for your
students.
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