Vocabulary Activities

Use this text list to find vocabulary activities, games and classroom resources for English language teaching. Select an activity title to open it.

Vocabulary activities

A1–A2

• Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt — Easter vocabulary activity; A1–A2.
• Festive Flash Cards for Christmas — Christmas vocabulary activity; A1.
• Find Your Way Around — prepositions of place and movement; A2.
• Functional Language Dialogue Building — restaurant functional language; A1–A2.
• Functional Language Role Plays — role plays for functional language and pronunciation; A1–B1.
• Giving and Receiving Directions — language for giving and following directions; A1–B1.
• Post-it Grab — parts-of-speech vocabulary review game; A1.
• Skeleton Shake: Halloween Song — Halloween vocabulary, movement verbs and body parts; A2.
• Surprise Box — adaptable vocabulary and pronunciation review task; A1–A2.
• The Natural World — nature vocabulary and numbers; A1–A2.
• What’s the Time? — vocabulary and language for telling the time; A2.

A2–B1

• A Day at the Seaside — dependent prepositions through childhood memories; A2–B1.
• Collocations for Getting a Job — collocation game on jobs; A2–B1.
• Container Collocations — kinaesthetic matching activity for container collocations; A2.
• Cuisenaire Rods for Vocabulary — noticing phrasal verbs through sport vocabulary; A2–B1.
• Christmas Crackers — phrasal verbs and festive traditions; A2 and above.
• Funny Bones: Day of the Dead Charades — collocations for everyday activities; A2–B1.
• Go Fish! Storytelling Cards — vocabulary-building storytelling activity; A2 and above.
• Halloween Time Bomb — Halloween vocabulary review activity; A2 and above.
• Hot Seat: Lexical Review — vocabulary review game; A2–B2.
• How Many Words in “Orchestra”? — word-search and word-unjumbling activity; A2 and above.
• Learner Techniques: Supporting SEN — vocabulary learner-training activity; A2 and above.
• Revising Collocations — vocabulary collocation review; A2 and above.
• Pick a Present — making and responding to suggestions; A2–B1.
• What’s Going On? — vocabulary and speaking from visual prompts; A2–B2.

B1–B2

• Call My Bluff — vocabulary and speaking activity; B1 and above.
• Changing the Register — vocabulary and writing activity on register; B1–B2.
• Drama in the Family — expressions with “take” through improvisation; B1 and above.
• Expectations and Disappointments — vocabulary for expectations and reality; B1–B2.
• If I Were a Fish — descriptive vocabulary and second conditional language; B1–B2.
• Investigating Vocabulary — activity for developing lexical range; B1 and above.
• Keywords: Summarising a Text — identifying keywords and summarising; B1 and above.
• Lexical Notebook Exchange — vocabulary work using lexical notebooks; B1 and above.
• Vocabulary Ladder — vocabulary familiarisation activity; B1 and above.
• Lifestyle Coaches — softening language for giving advice; B1 and above.
• Making Up the Rules —