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Flyswatter Game | Fly Swatting Vocabulary Game for ESL

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If you’re looking for a fun vocabulary game for kids or adults, then you’ll want to check out this flyswatter game. It’s one of the best fly swatting games out there so keep on reading to find out more.

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Fly Swatting Game

 

Are you looking for a fun ESL game to review vocabulary with kids (or adults too!)? Then you’ll need to keep on reading to learn more about the flyswatter game. But, only if you want some ESL awesome in your life. Read on to find out more about this fly swatting game.

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Flyswatter Game Vocabulary Game

Skills: Listening/Reading
Time: 5-10 minutes
Age: 7+
Materials: Whiteboard, 2 flyswatters

This is one of our favourite whiteboard games for ESL students. Check out some more top picks right here: Games to Play on a Whiteboard.

Here’s What To Do for the Fly Swatter Game

Flyswatter is a fun ESL vocabulary game for kids that can really energize your class at the end of a long day or semester. It makes an excellent way to review any new vocabulary that you’ve taught or as a warm-up at the beginning of the next class. One excellent example is for the ESL clothing unit.

Write the target words on the board in a random fashion. You can use 10-20 depending on the age and level of students. Divide the students into two teams. One person from each team comes up to the whiteboard and each person is given a flyswatter.

Give hints to describe one of the words and the first student to hit the word with the flyswatter gets a point for his/her team. If two students go for a word at the same time, the one on the bottom of the flyswatter stack gets the point. If a student makes an incorrect choice, he/she is out (no second chances).

I usually start with a very general hint and progress to more specific ones where the answer is quite obvious. It’s up to the student whether or not he/she wants to risk it and guess before the answer is apparent to everyone.

Procedure for the Fly Swat Game:

1. Divide students into two teams.

2. Write 10-20 vocabulary words on the whiteboard in a random fashion.

3. The first two students come to the board and are each given a flyswatter.

4. The teacher gives hints for one of the words, starting with general ones and getting more specific. I usually aim for about 3 hints before the first student will guess the word. Make it fun by going general at the start with students have a few options.

5. The student hits the word with his/her flyswatter when he/she knows the answer.

6. If correct, his/her team gets a point and the next two students come to the board. If incorrect, the other student is given a chance to guess the word and the teacher can give 1 more hint if necessary. Finally, if both students are incorrect, both will sit down and neither team gets a point.

7. You can erase the word once selected if you like. Or, keep them up there for the remainder of the activity. You can also erase the chosen word and add a new one in its’ place.

Need some tips for helping students with new words? Check this out:

How to Memorize New Vocabulary.

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Learn More about Teaching English Vocabulary to Kids

Check out this short video below to pick up some tips for teaching vocab to kids, including some fun games and activities you can use in your class.

Have your say about this Fly Swatter Game!

What are some of your favourite ESL vocabulary activities for kids? Or, have you tried out this ultimate fly swatter game? Or, other suggestions for fly swat games that you’d like to share? Leave a comment below and share your thoughts with us. We’d love to hear from you.

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