This ESL Game is called, "The Phonics Game."

This game is very easy to play and the students absolutely love it.

First - You will need to make a giant grid on the board. On the top of the grid you will write the numbers 1 - 10; and draw vertical lines in between the numbers.

Second - You will need to write the letters A - J on the far left side.

Now the students will easily be able to select any box from the grid. IE. 3A / 6J / 1D, etc., etc.

Before class time (during your preparation time), you should draw this same grid on a piece of paper. In each box you will write a number from 1 - 10.

On the class blackboard you will now fill in each box with a Phonics word from the student's Phonics book; this game can also be played using any other book. (Obvious, right?)

Now... divide the class into teams. I usually divide my class into four teams, but you can divide them into however many teams as you wish. And give each team a Team name. You can let the student's pick or you can just write, "Team 1," "Team 2," "Team 3," "Team 4."

The ESL students will the play, "Paper, Scissors, Stone!" to see who goes first, second, third and last.

After all of the above is taken care of... you can start playing the game.

From the team that gets to go first... one ESL student will stand up and make up a sentence using one of the words in the grid. If he/she makes up a sentence and says it using proper grammar ~ the teacher will erase the word, look on his/her piece of paper, see how many points are in that box and give that student's team that many points.

Keep playing this game until all of the words have been used.

The team with the most amount of points at the end of the game are the winners!

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