Word Games Guide
Aims
• Enjoy learning words through games, quizzes & puzzles
• Play in e-space or online, with others or by yourself
• Have fun while developing a range of English skills
Games in e-space
There are several card and board
games with a vocabulary focus that you
can play, including AGO, Boggle, GNU,
I Spy Bingo, Pictionary, Scrabble,
Stare, Upwords, and Who Am I?
In addition, try these language games which you can play
almost anytime, anywhere! Have fun while improving your
listening and speaking, vocabulary, and more!
• Guessing games
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I Spy
The Coffee Pot Game
Six Things
Who am I? What am I? Where am I?
• Building and linking words
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Categories
Chain Games
English Shiritori Game
Word Catch
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A good selection of free word games, quizzes and
puzzles for different levels:
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
Another good variety of online
interactive vocabulary games:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
A choice of games as well as many
other things for learning English:
http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/
FreeRice is a non-profit website run by
the United Nations World Food
Programme. Help end world hunger by
providing rice to hungry people for free
while learning new words!
http://freerice.com/
Check your vocabulary level and learn
the words you need the most through
online flashcards and interactive games
(Bilingual English & Japanese) http://www.wordengine.jp/
A wide offering of games for learning vocabulary,
grammar, pronunciation, and more:
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/VocabularyGames.html
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