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These are six fun, easy and engaging games that you can use in JUST one-minute to break the ice or warm up your class.

Game One: Bomb

• Get a softball and a timer

• Pick a set of vocabulary you want to revise, students pass the ball. When they get the ball they must say a word. This word can’t be repeated.

• Students continue until the time is up. The bomb. 

Game Two: Chain

• Get your class to form a circle. You will need a soft toy or a softball.

• Students pass the ball and count a particular sequence, the one they want to revise.

• Only the student who has the ball can speak.

Game Three: Concentration

• Show your class a large set of words you want to revise.

• Tell students that they have to remember as many words as they can.

• After the two minutes have passed, remove all the words or the flashcards and get students to write as many words as they remember.

• As a group, get them to list all the words on the board.

Game Four: Password

• Divide the class into groups and place a chair in front of the board facing the class.

• Write a word on the board.

• One person from each team sits on the chair and the team tries to describe the word. If the student recognizes the word, the team gets a point.

Game Five: Secret Spies

• Write words or sentences on pieces of paper.

• Cut the words up into letters.

• Get to the students and get them to decipher the words.

• Get the students to make their own.

Game six: Yes, sit down/ No, stand up

• Tell students that answering YES means stand up and NO means sit down.

• Ask students simple corrections to check that they understand.

• After students understand, get ready to ask questions.