Card Games with ESL Class

Go Fish is a popular choice and one of the card games you can adapt to suit many different grammar points. To make the game more adaptable, simply use cards with verbs in their base form (eat, drink, buy, live). Have two sets of verb cards, so you have two of each verb. You can play the game in pairs or in small groups. Each student is dealt five to seven cards (the remaining cards are placed in a stack at the center) and has to ask a question in the correct grammar tense in order to find the pair. So, if you’re practicing questions with ever, and Student A has a card with the verb be, he/she asks, “Have you ever been to ….?” If student B has the card with the verb be, he/she must say, “Yes, I have” and hand it over. If not, he/she says, “No, I haven’t! Go fish!”, thus prompting Student A to take a card from the stack of remaining cards. For another great spin on the Go Fish card game, check out this worksheet.

I want Christmas so much!!!! And what about you?


Don`t know how to get into Christmas Spirit? Here is my top 5 inspirational music videos for Christmas.


1. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a hit song written and produced by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released in November 1, 1994.

2. "Last Christmas" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1984. Originally written and produced by George Michael

3. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945. It was written in Hollywood, California during a heat wave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions.

4.  "Jingle Bell Rock" is a popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas season since then. 

5. "Happy New Year" is a song by Swedish group ABBA from their 1980 album Super Trouper.