12. Pictionary Race

An EFL take on the classic game "Pictionary", where students revise vocabulary in a fun and interactive way. All you need for this game is a whiteboard (and some whiteboard markers).
Teacher: Nick Deal (English for Asia)
Students from: W.F. Joseph Lee Primary School
Director: Angelina Komar (English for Asia)
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[@TheSandman1007]

bloody hell I wish my students behaved like this

[@elenaleal7081]

And mine! Hahaha

[@PRO-bc2lr]

They behave like that, because they are being filmed 😅

[@ilf6090]

This is a good experience for the students to learn from the picture. It really makes people to capture in their minds. It helps to answer easily and solve better solutions.

[@AndyTheESLGuy]

Great video and clearly explained. I wish my students were this well behaved!! haha

[@breezycharz238]

Can I learn English from you?

[@allison447]

Although everyone guessing can get too noisy, I nominate a person in each group each round to yell the guesses each time & it creates a little more noise and more team speaking. It goes over pretty well.

[@oldblue4415]

This is a really fun way of getting students to exercise their long-term memory. If it's a word they know only tentatively, this gives them time to pull it up out of their lexicon. I do this with a deck of cards on the table (text and, optionally, image on each card). We start a 'time bomb'--a timer that will "beep-beep-beep" until it 'goes off' after about one minute. A member of one team is the first artist, and they take the top card and start drawing that item on the board. I allow anyone on the artist's team to shout out answers at will. This adds spontaneity and heightens the excitement. Once someone gives the answer, the other team's next artist grabs a card and goes for it. The clue giving continues to bounce back and forth between the teams until the timer goes off. Which ever team's turn it is when the timer goes off, the OTHER team gets the point. (For higher level students, this game can also be done with verbal descriptions rather than drawing: "This is a big animal with four legs. We get milk from it.")

[@thomasjames5031]

This is really helpful and clearly presented. I will show it to my students as a way of modeling what I want them to do so that we too can play this game. Thank you.

[@omelcn]

Hi, Thomas! Could you share some good sites with ppt's for ESL classes, please? if you've got some

[@winwin-sq9hy]

fantastic, thanks for sharing great game and comments below ^^ help to improve this game lots of.

[@zero-pantsu-samus3203]

Perfect activity thank you!

[@dunyasaadi2493]

English for Asia, Your vidoes are amazing, really.

[@gangstarr2013]

thank you so much! rules explained clearly and demonstrations were very apparent! Thumbs up!! I will use this on my new classroom for tomorrow for icebreaking : )

[@hopinglikeplath20]

This is so fun!! I'm going to do this for my motivation activity!!

[@RekhaaGopinath]

Hello Spike, have you been able to do this activity with your group yet? What do you think of the idea of including the Creator or Pictionary in your group for added motivation? Let me know, I will make the introduction.

[@jhyoutubekorea5751]

Clear explanation. Thank you

[@jfziemba]

What wonderful students!

[@nurullaZiyaev]

Video is great and very useful for teaching pupils

[@kakalibasu3297]

Great . Really nice

[@polo2455]

Helped alot thank you!

[@CreapoSpanielky]

Gracias!! l will do it with my studens in spanish :) Gut gemacht :)

[@doorcat]

What is true guess for the snowman?

[@AnhNguyen-ey8sl]

Great !

[@ebrahimelfadaly5224]

So wonderful .. But how it works with large classes .. my class is 66 students. ..!!

[@enochthestud]

OMG!!! how in the world do you get 66 students??

[@jessicag630]

Ask the students to choose their 2 classmates who are good at drawing, perhaps?

[@baraebarae3640]

great ...ilove it ...i'll do it with my students

[@RekhaaGopinath]

Hello Barae, I am happy to connect you to the Creator or Pictionary, Rob Angel to play with your students if it is something you'd consider. Let me know. Thanks.

[@ashkanahmadi]

Thanks. But are they really called Brian and Natalie??

[@zero-pantsu-samus3203]

Yes, a lot of asian english learners use English names. Just as western chinese learners get chinese names.

[@Leotique]

People in Hong Kong or Taiwan like to give their kids a western Surname. Actually South and Southeast asians do it too.

[@AC_17]

Do both teams have the same word?

[@dreamertt5164]

yes

[@jinalchheda9950]

Then what if team 1 identifies the word from seeing the picture drawn by Team 2?

[@Moonlightcastle127]

i just love it!

[@ivanmejia6102]

how nice could be working with few students, sometimes working with 25 ss is difficult

[@user-bo8tb3tr7o]

25 is difficult enough. 30 is hell.

[@inasmok1173]

25 is difficult 😱 I'm working with 33 sometimes 40 or 45 😵😵😵 lol

[@behzadaslam6411]

we teach 50 to 60 students in a class

[@constanzamunoz2208]

I wish I had 25! LOL Im working with 40

[@pilarsamper2291]

I am working with 35 ☺

[@bear2891]

try working with 50 active students or shouting , try the best vocab game ever! just search for "best vocabulary game" and click on the chinese girl explaining it on you tube.

[@celucellsmartest1581]

You are great

[@vickybui6572]

Interesting !!!!

[@martinfitzgerald1605]

Instead of team 1 and team 2, how about the teams come up with their own name?

[@saidhoz7894]

Thank you

[@syifaliazatarailma3558]

ur videos are helpful. thanks

[@englishforasia]

For more teaching tips, check out our in-depth TESOL articles here: hongkongtesol.com/blog

[@LongAwaitedBaby]

What country is this?

[@sugarcube40degree]

Hong kong

[@nhienho2223]

Are the children Vietnamese

[@nomercylegend5852]

GORGEOUS INDEED

[@chandro4504]

interesting i will try this with my student in indonesia thanks

[@RekhaaGopinath]

Hello Budista, I can make an introduction to you with the Pictionary Creator to play with your students. let me know if this is interests you?

[@mbabubudhamagar5311]

So nice way but which is country.

[@Leotique]

I think Hong Kong or Taiwan

[@chade_u4579]

Montessori adult in a class

[@gamalsaleh5667]

A very good activity

[@thailuu7399]

Người vn

[@MissLizaYangonMyanmar]

Terrible class room set up environment for teaching. Trying to do communicative teaching style in a diadactic set up is shocking. Also these kids are really used to didactic. Look at the energy in that room. Its dead