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
- 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
- Board Game: Speaking prompts with dice movement. Teams roll, land on a square and answer the prompt.
- Escape Room: Solve language puzzles to crack the master code before time runs out.
- 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.
- WordVibe: Guess 5-letter vocabulary words from clues.
- Taboo: Describe words without using the forbidden terms.
- Jeopardy: Categories and points for whole-class team review.
- Millionaire: Multiple-choice questions with lifelines and a prize ladder.
- Drop Zone: Answer correctly, then drop balls into score zones.
- The Floor Is Lava: Spell each word to cross the lava before it rises, with listening and letter games too.