A selection of English ESL roll play printables

Disaster cards can be used for the Let's Explore Boardgame or for vocabulary development. Examples of major disasters with an explanation. 



The game can be found here: 



http://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/lets_explore_boardgame/places-geography-game/72197 



Famous landmarks cards:



 http://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/famous_landmark_cards_4_lets_explore_game/places-landmarks-monuments/72196 



Students should learn about and discuss natural disasters, famous landmarks, and world capitals before playing the game.

 Natural Disasters Speaking Cards Classroom Poster

You can find the pdf version and many more free worksheets and songs at our website: https://www.bingobongokids.com



The "Telling The Time" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game similar to Snakes and Ladders. Students can play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying "What Time Is It?" video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFBai179YA



Simply roll the dice and move along the board and say the time when you land on each space. Students can all learn together by shouting out "What time is it?". 



We have a couple more flashcards all about time at the following links:



https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/time-1-free-esl-time-flashcards-digital-analog-clocks/



https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/at-600-i-get-up-esl-flashcard-pack/



Telling The Time - ESL Board Game (Analog and Digital Clocks)

Directions: 
Game is for 2 or more players. 
Begin at START. 
Roll the dice and wherever you land- create a sentence or a question according to the time word prompts. 
You can also answer the question in your own words.
Example: Is Santa flying now? No, he isn't.
The sentence  or question can be: affirmative or negative. 
If the sentence is correct- roll the dice again and proceed until the end. 
The one who finishes first is the winner.

Thanks to PhilipR for the template.

For Lots of Laughs & Christmas Role Playing -
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/speaking-practice/role-play-miming-drama-activity-or-improv-game/christmas/christmas-role-play-oprahs-favorite-things-not/112365

Christmas Boardgame- Intermediate

Use the question word or the large word and form questions. Choose one of the helping verbs or the pronouns. Proceed only if the sentence is correct otherwise try again. Thanks to PhilipR for the template.

Question Formation Boardgame

The "What's This? What's That?" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying song on YouTube with your students at https://youtu.be/mU-xKGmWcOc to learn all of the animals and the sounds they make.



Simply roll the dice and move along the board, asking each other, "What's this?" or "What's that?" depending on the space. You can use simple answers such as "It's a ...," or for more advanced students, use the  patterns, "This is a ..." and "That is a ...".



Find the original worksheet and the rest in the series at:



https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/whats-this-whats-that-free-english-race-time-game-1/



Don't miss our other free resources including worksheets, flashcards, videos, games, teaching articles and more!

What's This? What's That? | English Race Time Game | Snakes and Ladders

Famous landmark cards with fun facts to be used with World Capitals and Disasters Boardgame or for vocabulary development/speaking activity. 



Students should learn and discuss about famous world landmarks and natural disasters plus a review of world capitals before playing the game. 



The game can be found here: 



http://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/lets_explore_boardgame/places-geography-game/72197 



Disaster cards: 



http://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/disaster_cards_4_lets_explore_boardgame/weather-disasters-weather/72195

Famous Landmarks Fact Cards Classroom Poster 

Students play the board game, using a dice and their regular eraser. The aim of the game is for the students to practice asking and answering "wh" questions. It is a pair or small group activity.

Roll and Say - WH questions

You can find the pdf version and many more free worksheets and songs at our website: https://www.bingobongokids.com



The "ABC to XYZ (Upper Case)" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying "ABC to XYZ (The Alphabet Song)" video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz23OUPL58



Simply roll the dice and move along the board, reading each letter out loud. More advanced students can practice phonics by reading each letter along with the attached picture, such as "c, c, cat!".



To go along with this worksheet we also have some educational alphabet writing worksheets available at:

https://www.bingobongokids.com/product-category/free-esl-worksheets/?swoof=1&song=abc-to-xyz&really_curr_tax=236-product_cat

A-Z Upper Case Alphabet - ESL Board Game 

There are 2 pages of speaking cards illustrating everyday misadventures. The students are to answer each example with "I would..." and give as many examples- serious or funny that they can think of. It's good for us to laugh at our gaffes. Let's try to find how we can prevent future occurrences or find a way to deal with everyday problems in a better manner in the future..

Role Play : Everyday Misadventures or What Would You Do if...?

A simple board game to help practise There is and There are grammar. Students roll dice and must say the full sentence represented by the pictures before they can play on. A few extra things thrown in (alphabet, counting). 

There is + There are board game

This is a game for practicing weather vocabulary and the phrase What is the weather like? Children need only a dice. Children can play it in pairs or in groups. They have to roll it twice. The first number is for an across line and the second is for a down line. 

Weather Board Game

Here you can find a sample situation (Part 1)about how to book a flight then a form (part 2) to fill in. After reading the situation the ss have to fill in the form. You can use the form to create other situations. Hope you find it both useful and informing. You can find 5 different situations in Part 3 and 4. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi.

Flight reservation *** Role-play *** Part 1-2

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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