Root Words Game for Word Building: Practice root words game for word building by playing this interactive ESL board game. Students who have good mastery of root words and their meanings in English will often have skills for attacking unfamiliar words especially during exams like IELTS and TOEFL. English has borrowed words from many languages especially from Greek and Latin.
Choose whether to practice root words game for word building by navigating a treacherous galaxy filled with green monsters, a sea filled with pirates or a river filled with crocodiles. Either way this will keep your heart pounding. Suddenly English grammar practice is no longer boring with these games.
Games are useful for language learning because they provide a fun way to learn. Instead of many hours of worksheets, students can ‘practice and play’, with good results.
Games are great for motivating students to learn. By playing our fun educational games, students can practice and review key English vocabulary, grammar and sentences without the boredom which is usually encountered when doing paper-based gap-fill exercises. Play the game below and do not hesitate to share these resources with other learners. This is the philosophy behind our site — www.eslgamesplus.com.
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In this post, I am presenting 5 games that help students recognize and form different parts of speech. They are especially useful for students preparing for Cambridge exams (First and Advanced). I have been using these activities to revise and practice vocabulary and to offer some alternatives to typical Use of English exercises.
Note: Even though these games serve mainly for revision purposes, I try to include some follow-up activities where the target words from each game are used in context (using the words in sentences, creating a dialogue, asking questions containing the target words, exam-type exercises, etc.)
#1 Word Formation Maze
The maze is perfect for revising suffixes and prefixes. Students try to exit the maze looking for words governed by the same word formation rule. In the maze below the task is to find the right path choosing adjectives whose opposites start with the prefix in-. My other favourite option is looking for nouns that end with -ence (as opposed to -ance).
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Word Formation Maze_key
#2 Building Blocks
I got the idea for this activity after stumbling upon this one. Prepare two sets of word card: chosen prefixes/suffixes and words that go with them to create new ones. Students select one card from the Words pile and try to match it with the appropriate prefix /suffix to make a new word, note the new word down, put the Words card aside, and continue until they have no Words cards left. They can play individually/in pairs against the clock or against each other to make as many correct words as possible.
The set below aims at revising noun suffixes -ment, -tion, and -sion.
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#3 Reversed Taboo
The game is based on the premise that students need to come up with the target word having some context and the word from which the target one is formed, much like in the actual exam exercise.
Students play in pairs or groups. One student draws a card and needs to describe the word in CAPITALS using the word written below (unlike in a taboo game, where these are the forbidden words).
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Target word: ADMIRATION
Explanation: You feel this when you admire someone, like a musician or a politician.
Variation for stronger students: they need to come up with the “reversed taboo” word on their own.
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#4 Parts of Speech Bingo
Oldie but goodie. Select words you would like your students to revise and prepare your bingo cards. Mine are based on vocabulary from Advanced Practice Tests Plus 2.
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Call out names of parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb), students cross out one word at a time (even if they have several nouns on their bingo card).
Variation 2: Gap filling
Read out a sentence with a gap. Students who have the fitting word say it out loud and cross it out.
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#5 Pass the Ball
I used to play a similar game with my 8-year-olds: kids sit in a circle and pass the ball around saying words from a given category (e.g. animals). I adapted it for the needs of my teenage students and it was an instant hit.
Students stand/sit in a circle, you (or any other student) select a category (word building suffix or prefix), students pass the ball around saying the words without repeating them and you monitor whether they are correct. The first person to say the wrong word/not say anything at all is eliminated (leaves the circle). The game goes on until there are two players left. Change suffixes/prefixes for each new round.
I have seen an equally dynamic game on Anna’s blog and I am looking forward to giving it a try soon.
For more word formation activities, take a look here, here, here, and here.
If you know any other fun word formation games or activities, please share your ideas in the comments. Thanks!
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worksheet summary
A word building game to practise prefixes, suffixes, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Fully editable. Players roll the dice and complete sentences with the correct form of the given words. Then they roll the dice again to check how many points they managed to get.
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Grammar practice
Vocabulary practice
Speaking practice
Grammar topic
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Level
The above lesson is a great teaching resource for:Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1)
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Business/professional students
High schoolers
Elementary schoolers
Adults
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This resource does not contain any images, words or ideas that would upset a reasonable person in any culture.
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Published 17/07/2020
Kamlocia is from/lives in Poland and has been a member of iSLCollective since 2016-02-11. Kamlocia last logged in on 2023-03-09, and has shared 8 resources on iSLCollective so far.
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