Online Board Games

Students roll the dice, move their counter and answer the question or task on the square they land on. Up to eight players or teams share one screen, so it works on a projector, a smartboard or a shared screen in an online lesson.

Make a board game

Try one

Ideas for using it

• Conversation practice. Fill the board with discussion questions. The student who lands on a square answers, and the others each ask one follow-up question.
• Grammar transformation. Put sentences on the squares for students to change, for example active to passive, or present to past.
• Make a sentence. Put only a word, a phrase or a question tag on each square. Students make a sentence that fits, like "You can swim, can't you?"
• Teams on the projector. Split the class into up to eight teams. Each team agrees on an answer before their speaker gives it.
• Online lessons. Share your screen and roll for your student, or play against them.
• Wrong answer? Click the × on the square to send the counter back to where it started that turn, and play on.
• Warm-up or end of lesson. There's no set length, so you can stop when time runs out.
• Revision. Mix questions from the last few units on one board.

Tips for good squares

• Keep each square short enough to read from the back of the room. Up to 100 characters fit, but 40 to 80 read best.
• Mix easy and harder questions, so everyone gets turns they can answer.
• Ask open questions (What, Why, How) rather than yes/no ones, so students say more.

Make your own

Fill the 18 squares yourself, paste a list, or use Generate to write questions, sentences or speaking tasks from a topic and level. Check and edit them on the board, then create the game and share the link.

Make a board game

More in our collections

Board games appear in several of our grammar and speaking collections, alongside other activities on the same topic.

Present Simple · Past Simple · Passive Voice · Asking Questions · Discussion and Speaking · All collections

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