Trick or Treat
Halloween is a great, fun event for your ESL students to get away from their textbooks. In this post, I have a fun game that will save you time and add to any lesson ideas that you have already planned.
Trick or treat is a very simple activity to set up and is always enjoyed by my students. I have prepared two versions of this game; one for young learners and another for teens.
Materials required: A bag/box, a copy of the printable and some candy.
Level: Young learners and teens.
Printable: Young learners and Teens
Method
1. Print out a copy of the young learners’ sheet or the teen sheet and cut out the cards.
2. Put the cards into a bag or box.
Halloween Guess Who – in this activity, young learners act like monsters helping them consolidate new monster vocabulary.
Zombie Apocalypse – is a fun speaking activity for teens where they discuss how they would survive the zombie apocalypse.
Halloween Family Fortunes – Ideal for teens and adults and even young learners to practice Halloween vocabulary.
Halloween Idioms – Ideal for teens and adults.
Halloween True or False Quiz – This activity is perfect for teens and adults (lower-intermediate +)
Interactive Halloween Memory Match (Young Learners) – Match the Halloween words and practice vocabulary with your young learners.
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Did you enjoy this activity? Leave a comment below with your ideas, suggestions or comments.
Arthemis Siqueira
says:Congrats a million times and thank you very much for sharing!
DavidM
says:Thanks for the kind words Arthemis. I appreciate the comment.
Elaine
says:Thanks a lot for sharing such a simple, practical and amazing idea!!!!!!
DavidM
says:Hi Elain,
Glad you liked it!
Sophia
says:Hey David,
I have been teaching esl for 3 years now – can’t believe I only found your website now. I have definitely used a lot of these games, and I must agree they are all winners.
You have some fantastic ideas and games and your lesson plans are wonderful. Thank you so much for making them available to everyone!
DavidM
says:Thanks for the kind words. Many thanks.