8 Fun Language Games that Can Actually Help You Learn a New Language

Parts of Speech Bingo - Create a bingo card with different parts of speech and have students listen for examples of each while reading a text or listening to a story.

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Sentence Scramble - Write a sentence on a whiteboard, but scramble the words. Have students work together to unscramble the sentence and rewrite it correctly.

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Sentence Surgery - Have students work together to identify and correct the errors, then reassemble the sentence in the correct order.

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Grammar Charades - Have students act out different parts of speech or sentence structures with their classmates try to guess what they are acting out.

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Parts of Speech Relay - Divide the class into teams and have them race to identify different parts of speech in a text or sentence.

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Grammar Jeopardy - Create a Jeopardy-style game board with different grammar categories and point values.

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Mad Libs - Give students a story with blanks for different parts of speech, and have them fill in the blanks with their own words.

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Grammar Twister - Create a Twister board with different parts of speech or sentence structures.

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