Here are a few grammar games and activities that we can use to excite the students before, or during, grammar lessons. Some of them offer cool introductions of new concepts while others offer a teacher some methods to make practice more memorable.
1. The Verb Family Tree
Focus: Verb
This tree will teach the students different forms of verbs as children of the root verb.
You can do this activity on the whiteboard or you can opt for a worksheet version. Either way, you first have to start on the board so the students get the idea.
- Draw a family tree with four branches
- The root or trunk is the root word or the main verb
- Name every branch a particular form. For example, the branch of the eldest brother could be the third-person singular form of the verb. Another branch is plural or past form, and so on.
- Demonstrate with one word and call excited students to name siblings of verbs of your choice.
You may also let them play this game in pairs.
