Free ESL Don't Wake the Giant Games
Teams climb a snoring giant by answering speaking prompts. Weak answers wake him up. Every Don't Wake the Giant 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 Don't Wake the Giant games
- Don't Wake the Giant: My word list CEFR A1 · Topic: My word list
Teams climb a snoring giant by answering speaking prompts about My word list. - World Words Race CEFR A1 · Topic: My word list
Young learners travel around a 24-space board answering questions about nationalities, countries, and continents. Each prompt uses present-simple language and concrete, personal connections to geography. Players move forward by producing correct sentences about where people are from, what continent… - Chronicle: The Advanced Past Forms Speaking Game CEFR C2 · Topic: Advanced past forms
A C2-level speaking board game where teens navigate 24 spaces by producing sophisticated narratives, analyses, and reflections using complex past tenses. Players encounter pair dialogues, team debates, mini-presentations, and embodied tasks that demand nuanced command of past perfect, past… - Fruit Market Race CEFR A2 · Topic: Fruits
A 24-space board game where young A2 learners speak about fruits, preferences, and market scenarios. Players land on spaces and complete speaking tasks—asking partners, acting out, presenting, and discussing. Chance cards add surprise movement and bonus speaking challenges. - Personality Passport: A Speaking Game for Teens CEFR B1 · Topic: Personality Adjectives
Players move around a 24-space board, landing on prompts that require them to speak about personality traits, describe themselves and others, compare character types, and act out emotions. Each prompt has a clear communicative purpose: sharing opinions, gathering information from teammates, or… - Blend Sprint: S, L, R Adventures CEFR A2 · Topic: S, L, R blends
A classic board game where young learners race 24 spaces by speaking about real situations using S, L, and R blend words. Players land on prompts that require genuine communication—asking partners questions, acting out scenes, and presenting ideas. Chance cards add surprise moves and mini-language… - Summer Stories: First Week Back CEFR A2 · Topic: First week at school
A classic classroom board game where young learners share their summer holiday experiences using simple past tense and present simple. Players move around a 24-space board by answering speaking prompts about where they went, what they did, and who they were with during the summer holidays.
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.
- Board Game: Speaking prompts with dice movement. Teams roll, land on a square and answer the prompt.
- 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.
- 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.