Classroom games for the end of a lesson
The last ten minutes of a lesson, the Friday before a holiday, the class that finished early: every teacher needs a few games that start in a minute and need nothing printed.
No equipment at all
1.Twenty questions
One student thinks of a person, place or thing from the topic; the class gets twenty yes-or-no questions to find it.
2.Hot seat
A student sits facing the class with their back to the board. Write a word on it; the class describes it without saying it.
3.Silent ball
Pass a soft ball around the room in silence. Talk, drop it, or throw badly, and you sit down.
With the projector
4.A picture quiz that sharpens
Put depixelate on the projector. Each picture starts as a few blocks and sharpens over ten seconds; students answer from any browser with a four-letter code, with no accounts and no app. A round of 8 pictures fits the end of a lesson, and there are packs for maps, flags, animals, inventions, instruments and paintings.
5.Odd one out
Show four pictures or words; teams argue which one does not belong. More than one answer can be right if the reasoning is good.
6.Make your own round
Turn this week’s slides into a picture quiz: upload the pictures, type the right answer and three wrong ones. Next lesson’s starter, done.
Keeping it fair
Ask students to use a nickname rather than their full name, and play in pairs if not everyone has a device.
A free game takes up to 30 devices, enough for a whole class; Pro rooms have no limit.
