Free ESL Board Game Games
Speaking prompts with dice movement. Teams roll, land on a square and answer the prompt. Every Board Game game below was made by a teacher on LessonVibe and is free to play in class: open it, project it and play. No student logins needed.
Latest Board Game games
- Telling the time Board Game CEFR B1 · Topic: Telling the time
A free speaking board game for teens at CEFR B1 level. - Grammar Quest: B2 Speaking Board Game CEFR B2 · Topic: My word list
A 24-space board game where B2 teens engage in authentic pair and group speaking tasks anchored to real-world scenarios. Players ask questions, negotiate opinions, act out situations, and present ideas—all designed to reinforce target grammar structures through genuine communicative gaps. - Around the World: Nationality Remix CEFR A1 · Topic: Nationality (Remix)
A 25-space speaking board game where teen learners (A1) practice talking about nationalities and countries. Players answer prompts about where they are from, describe people from different countries, and build confidence using 'Where are you from?' and 'I'm from...' / 'I'm...' structures. Includes… - Around the World: Nationality Game CEFR A1 · Topic: Nationality
Teens travel around a 24-space board answering speaking prompts about nationalities, countries, and continents. Players must ask partners, act out, and present information about where people are from using present-simple language (I am / I'm from, He/She is from, They are from). - Gen Z Vibes: A Speaking Board Game CEFR A1 · Topic: Topics that excite Gen z
Adults at A1 level travel around a 24-space board, landing on prompts about topics that excite Gen Z: social media, music, fashion, gaming, and trends. Each prompt requires genuine spoken communication—asking partners questions, acting out scenarios, or sharing opinions. Chance cards add surprise… - Passport to the Past: A C2 Speaking Journey CEFR C2 · Topic: Past forms
An advanced board game where C2 teens navigate 24 travelling scenarios using sophisticated past forms. Players encounter nuanced communicative tasks rooted in real travel situations—missed flights, cultural misunderstandings, unexpected encounters—that demand authentic negotiation, storytelling,… - Travel + Transport, Directions Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Travel + Transport, Directions
A free speaking board game for adults at CEFR A2 level. - Travel Dash: A Journey Around the Board CEFR A2 · Topic: Travel + Transport, Directions
Adults navigate a 24-space board answering questions about travel, transport, directions, and everyday situations. Players use present continuous, comparatives, and past simple to describe journeys, give directions, mime actions, and discuss transport choices. Chance cards add surprise speaking… - Superlatives Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Superlatives
A free speaking board game for young-learners at CEFR A2 level. - Animal Adventure Board Game CEFR A1 · Topic: learning vocabulary
A colorful speaking board game for Grade 1 learners (ages 5–7) where teams move around a 24-space track by answering simple questions about animals. Players describe animals, mime actions, ask each other questions, and work together as a team. Each correct spoken answer helps the team advance. - Best & Worst: The Superlatives Game CEFR A1 · Topic: Superlatives
Teams race around the board debating the best places, greatest inventions, worst habits, and smartest decisions. Players use superlative language (the best, the worst, the most interesting) to convince classmates and earn ladder climbs or avoid snake slides. - Word Formation Race: -tion, -sion, -ment CEFR B1 · Topic: nouns ending in -tion -sion -ment
Teens race around a 24-space board, landing on prompts that require them to speak about real situations using nouns ending in -tion, -sion, and -ment. Players must explain, compare, act out, and discuss to reach the finish. Four teams compete; chance cards add unpredictability. - Jane Eyre: Gateshead Mysteries CEFR B1 · Topic: Jane eyre chapter 1ó2ó3
Teams navigate a 24-space board answering speaking prompts about Jane Eyre chapters 1–3. Players discuss character motivations, compare experiences with Jane's isolation, and act out key scenes from the novel. Authentic communicative tasks require teens to justify opinions, negotiate meaning, and… - Can you ... ? Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Can you ... ?
A free speaking board game for adults at CEFR A2 level. - Can you ... ? Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Can you ... ?
A free speaking board game for adults at CEFR A2 level. - Can you ... ? Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Can you ... ?
A free speaking board game for adults at CEFR A2 level. - English Adventure: Around the Classroom CEFR A2 · Topic: english
A 24-space board game where young learners navigate by speaking about daily life, routines, and personal experiences. Players land on spaces and complete speaking tasks ranging from pair conversations to team discussions and action-based prompts. Chance cards add unpredictability and extra speaking… - Airport Adventure CEFR A2 · Topic: Airport adventure
Travel around the airport board, completing speaking tasks at each gate. Answer questions, act out airport scenes, and work with your team to reach the departure lounge. A2 young learners will practise describing journeys, asking about travel experiences, and role-playing airport situations. - Hobby Hop: A Speaking Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Activities and hobbies
Young learners travel around a 24-space board answering questions and completing speaking tasks about activities and hobbies. Players ask each other, act out hobbies, and work together to reach the finish line while practising A2 English. - Animal Friends Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: How animals are different and same
Young learners compare and contrast animals by asking partners, acting out animal movements, and discussing what makes animals similar or different. Teams race around the board answering speaking prompts about animal characteristics, habitats, and behaviors. - I Can! Speaking Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Can
Adults advance around a 29-space board by speaking about their abilities using 'I can' sentences. Each space presents a communicative task—asking partners about their skills, acting out abilities, or discussing what teams can do together. Players use past simple, present simple, and can/can't to… - Can Do! – A Speaking Game CEFR A2 · Topic: verbs mixed with can
Adults practise ability with 'can' through 24 interactive speaking tasks. Each board space features a sentence starter like 'I can dance' that triggers genuine communication: asking partners about their abilities, acting out skills, comparing what they can do, and discussing team goals. Chance… - Verb Action Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: verbs
Adults race around a 24-space board answering communicative speaking prompts about everyday verbs. Players ask partners questions, act out routines, present ideas, and discuss team decisions. Chance cards add surprise speaking tasks and board movement. - Clothes Quest CEFR A1 · Topic: clothes
Young learners move around a 24-space board answering questions about clothes, colors, and what they wear. Players ask each other, act out outfits, and describe their favorite items. Perfect for A1 learners practicing present-simple speaking about everyday clothing. - Campfire Holiday Adventures CEFR A2 · Topic: holidays
A board game where young learners speak about holiday camping activities. Teams move around a 24-space board, answering questions about building shelters, catching fish, collecting wood, cooking, and lighting fires. Players use past simple and future simple to describe what they did and what they… - Icons of Russia: A Speaking Journey CEFR C1 · Topic: famous russian people
Adults explore the lives, legacies, and cultural impact of famous Russian figures across science, arts, politics, and sport. Each board space triggers sophisticated discussion requiring argument, comparison, and nuanced reasoning at C1 level. - Jobs & Bodies Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Jobs and body parts
Young learners move around a 24-space board answering questions about jobs, body parts, and daily routines. Teams compete by speaking in complete sentences about what people do, how bodies work, and personal experiences. Chance cards add surprise moves and mini-speaking tasks. - Rivalry Race: The Competition Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Rivalry
Four teams race around a 24-space board competing in speaking challenges about rivalry, competition, and winning. Players answer questions about sports, games, school competitions, and friendly contests. Perfect for young learners to practise speaking about competition in real-world contexts. - Resolution Champions: The Customer Service Board Game CEFR B2 · Topic: Ensuring customer satisfaction in complaint resolution
Teams navigate a 24-space board by engaging in authentic speaking tasks about handling customer complaints, resolving issues, and ensuring satisfaction. Players use customer service vocabulary and communication strategies at B2 level, with chance cards adding dynamic twists. - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
A 24-space board game where young learners speak about their daily routines. Players move around the board answering questions about wake-up times, meals, school, homework, bedtime, and weekend activities. Teams compete to reach the finish first while practising A2 speaking about habits, past… - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
A 24-space board game where young learners speak about their daily routines. Players move around the board answering questions about wake-up times, meals, school, homework, bedtime, and weekend activities. Teams compete to reach the finish first while practising A2 speaking about habits, past… - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
Young learners race around a 24-space board answering questions and performing tasks about their daily routines. Players take turns speaking about what they do from morning to bedtime, asking partners questions, acting out activities, and working together as teams. Chance cards add surprises and… - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
Young learners race around a 24-space board, answering questions and completing speaking tasks about their daily routines. Players move by answering genuine communicative prompts—asking partners about their schedules, acting out morning activities, and discussing what makes a good day. Chance cards… - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
A lively 24-space board game where young learners speak about their daily routines. Players move around the board by answering speaking prompts about waking up, meals, school, play, and bedtime. Pair work, team discussions, and fun mimes keep everyone talking! - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
Young learners travel around a 24-space board, answering questions and completing speaking tasks about their daily routines. Teams compete to reach the finish first by communicating about wake-up times, meals, school, play, bedtime, and family habits. Perfect for A2 learners aged 7–9. - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
A classic board game where young learners speak about their daily activities, routines, and habits. Players move around the board by answering questions, acting out routines, and discussing with teammates. Perfect for A2 learners practicing present simple, past simple for completed actions, and… - Daily Routine Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routine
A 24-space board game where young learners aged 7–9 speak about their daily routines. Players move around the board by answering speaking prompts about waking up, meals, school, play, and bedtime. Chance cards add surprise moves and quick speaking tasks. Teams compete to reach the finish line first. - Hobby Treasure Hunt CEFR A2 · Topic: Has have, possessives, hobby
A 24-space board game where young learners (A2) speak about possessions, hobbies, and family members using has/have. Players land on spaces with speaking prompts anchored to real-world scenarios: asking about friends' hobbies, describing what family members own, comparing collections, and acting… - Would You Rather? Fun Speaking Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Funny questions would you rather
A lively board game where young learners answer silly 'Would You Rather' questions in pairs, teams, and solo. Players move around a 24-space track, answering questions about cars, trucks, trains, and funny situations. Perfect for A2 learners who love vehicles and imaginative play. - Social Minds: A Speaking Game for Teens CEFR B1 · Topic: Social skills and inferencing
An interactive board game where players navigate 24 spaces by responding to social inference and communication challenges. Players infer emotions, explain social situations, and practice turn-taking in pair and group tasks. Designed for B1 learners with autism spectrum support: clear prompts,… - Future Friends & Super Comparisons CEFR A2 · Topic: Be going to, Comparatives and Superlative
Young learners race around a 24-space board answering questions about their plans (be going to) and comparing people, places, and things (comparatives and superlatives). Teams take turns speaking, acting, and collaborating to reach the finish line. - Day in Motion CEFR B1 · Topic: Present continuous uses
Adults describe what is happening around them right now and their plans for later today. Players move around a 24-cell board by speaking about present activities, future plans, and current situations. The game emphasizes present continuous (what is happening now) alongside present simple (what… - yesterday Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: yesterday
A free speaking board game for young-learners at CEFR A2 level. - Memory Lane: A Year of Stories CEFR A2 · Topic: past tense
Players travel around a board sharing memorable experiences from the past year. Through pair-talks, team discussions, and creative actions, learners practise past simple while describing trips, events, and unexpected moments. Perfect for building confidence in narrative speaking at A2 level. - Daily Routines Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routines
A 24-space board game where young learners speak about their daily routines, habits, and activities. Players move around the board by answering speaking prompts about morning, afternoon, and evening routines. Designed for A2 learners to practise past simple, present simple, and ability with… - Colours, Countries & Friends CEFR A1 · Topic: colour，nationality，plural words
A classic board game where young learners aged 6–8 (CEFR A1) speak about colours, nationalities, and plural words. Players move around the board answering questions, acting out scenarios, and working together as teams. Each prompt requires a full sentence response and anchors to real, concrete… - Memory Lane: A Year of Stories CEFR A2 · Topic: Irregular Verbs
Players share memorable experiences from the past year—trips, events, and unexpected moments—using past simple to describe what happened. Teams move around the board by answering speaking prompts about their own experiences and learning from classmates' stories. - Sound Ss Stars CEFR A1 · Topic: Sound Ss
A classic board game for young learners practicing the /s/ sound through speaking tasks. Teams race around the board answering questions, acting out words, and discussing /s/ words like sun, sky, star, socks, and spoon. Perfect for Jolly Phonics Sound Ss lessons. - Food & Places to Eat Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: places to eat, food vocabulary
A classic 24-space speaking board game where young learners aged 7–10 (CEFR A2) discuss restaurants, food preferences, and eating habits. Players land on spaces and complete speaking tasks about real-world food situations—asking partners about meals, acting out restaurant scenes, and agreeing as a… - Daily Routines Race CEFR A1 · Topic: time and daily routines
A colorful board game where young learners aged 6–8 practice speaking about daily routines and telling time. Players move around a 24-space board, answering questions and acting out morning, afternoon, and evening activities. Teams compete to reach the finish line while building confidence in… - Daily routines Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routines
A free speaking board game for young-learners at CEFR A2 level. - Daily routines Board Game CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routines
A free speaking board game for young-learners at CEFR A2 level. - School Equipment Adventure CEFR A2 · Topic: school equipments (Remix)
Young learners race around a 24-space board answering questions and completing speaking tasks about school equipment. Teams move forward by answering communicative prompts anchored to real classroom scenarios. Chance cards add surprise moves and quick speaking challenges. - Daily Routines Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Daily routines
A 24-space board game where young learners speak about their daily routines, habits, and time-management. Players move forward by answering authentic questions about what they do each day, asking partners about their routines, acting out morning and evening tasks, and discussing weekend plans.… - School Supplies Sprint CEFR A2 · Topic: school equipments
A 24-space board game where young learners speak about school equipment in real situations. Players land on spaces and answer questions about their pencils, bags, desks, and classroom tools. Pair-talk, team discussions, and fun mime activities keep everyone speaking English. - Noun Phrase Quest CEFR A2 · Topic: Expanded Noun Phrases
A classic board game where young learners (A2) describe objects, people, and places using expanded noun phrases. Players move around the board by answering speaking prompts that encourage them to use descriptive language in real communicative situations. - Calendar & Weather Game CEFR A2 · Topic: How to recognize the year, days of the week, months of the year and what kind of weather we have each day.
A four-team board game where teens speak about dates, days, months, and weather. Players land on spaces and answer communicative prompts about real-world scheduling and weather situations, building fluency in time and weather language at A2 level. - My Day Right Now! CEFR A1 · Topic: 🍎 Present Simple vs Present Progressive: Fruits
Players describe what they are doing right now and what they plan to do later today. They answer questions about their present activities, act out daily routines, and discuss their plans with teammates. Perfect for A1 learners practicing present continuous and present simple in a fun, interactive… - past simple Board Game CEFR A1 · Topic: past simple
A free speaking board game for teens at CEFR A1 level. - Brain Games: The Speaking Challenge CEFR B1 · Topic: Brain Games
A 24-space board game where teen learners navigate real-world scenarios involving money, attitudes, and consumer choices. Players answer speaking prompts anchored to authentic situations—from haggling with a bartender to debating whether luxury items are worth their price tag. Designed for B1…
Other game formats
- Live Quiz: A free live ESL quiz for teens and adults. Students join on their phones with a QR code, answer at their own pace inside a heist story, and the class board shows crews racing to open their vaults. No logins, no names. Printable quiz sheet included.
- Word Search: A free word search for young learners. Mystery words hide in the night sky: children see a picture or hear the word, find it, say it, then remember it at sunrise. Printable worksheet included.
- Spin the Wheel: A free ESL vocabulary wheel for young learners. Spin Mr Moon to pick a word, then the big reveal shows the task: say it, spell it with letter tiles, mime it or draw it. Printable paper spinner included.
- Crossword: A free ESL crossword for young learners. Every word is a row of windows in Moon Town: children read or hear a short story clue, say the word and spell it from memory to light up the town, then name every word again when the lights go out. Printable crossword worksheet included.
- Penalty Shootout: A free ESL penalty shootout. Teams kick the ball at the right answer: a safe shot shows two words, a power shot four, and the top corner is answered from memory. Ties go to sudden death. Printable match report worksheet included.
- Basketball Shootout: A free ESL basketball shootout. Teams shoot at the right answer: a layup shows two words for 1 point, a jump shot four for 2, and a three-pointer is answered from memory for 3. Ties go to overtime. Printable worksheet included.
- Classic Race: A free classroom board game race. Every team answers every speaking card, and each right answer rolls the dice. Star squares or snakes and ladders, team scores only, or the whole class against the sunrise. Printable board game worksheet included.
- Four in a Row: A free four in a row game for the classroom. Teams pick a column and answer a card: a right answer drops their counter in, a miss lets another team steal the spot. Or the whole class plays against Mr Moon. Printable board game worksheet included.
- Jeopardy: Categories and points for whole-class team review.
- Millionaire: Multiple-choice questions with lifelines and a prize ladder.
- Taboo: Describe words without using the forbidden terms.
- Don't Wake the Giant: Teams climb a snoring giant by answering speaking prompts. Weak answers wake him up.
- WordVibe: Guess 5-letter vocabulary words from clues.
- The Floor Is Lava: Spell each word to cross the lava before it rises, with listening and letter games too.
- Escape Room: Solve language puzzles to crack the master code before time runs out.
- Drop Zone: Answer correctly, then drop balls into score zones.
- Water Guns, Bombs & Angels: Right answers open mystery boxes: angels, squirt guns and bombs. The team with the most hearts wins.
- Stop the Bus: Roll a letter, fill every category, and ring the bell to stop the bus. Unique words score 10.
- Story Adventure: A choose-your-own-adventure story with vocabulary and comprehension checks.
- Battleships: Sink ships by making correct grammar sentences from a row and a column.