ESL Drawing Games
Beetle Drive

ESL Drawing Game - Vocabulary - Group Work
Here is a fun drawing game for teaching parts of the body. Write the following on the board: 1 = body, 2 = head, 3 = eyes, 4 = legs, 5 = antennae, 6 = wings. Tell the students that they are going to each draw a picture of a beetle by rolling a dice and...
Dont say a word!

ESL Drawing Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Drawing, Guessing, Forming Sentences - Group Work
This is a useful drawing game for revising vocabulary or grammar. Write 12 words or sentences you want the students to revise on the numbered cards and make one copy of the cards for each group...
Draw the Sentence

ESL Drawing Game - Grammar: Drawing, Guessing, Forming Sentences - Group Work
Here is an imaginative ESL drawing game for practicing the present continuous tense. To begin, students write down three present continuous sentences, starting with: He, She and They, e.g. 'He is playing football'. The students do this without...
Pictionary

ESL Drawing Game - Vocabulary: Drawing, Guessing - Group Work
This ESL drawing game is ideal for revising vocabulary. There are two versions of this game, one is for young learners and the other is for older students. For young learners, divide the students into two teams. Have each team sit in a circle. Put a...
Quick Draw

ESL Drawing Game - Vocabulary: Drawing, Guessing - Group Work
Here is a fun drawing game to help students revise vocabulary you have been teaching in class. Invite a student from one team to come up to the board and take a word card. The student then has 15 seconds to draw the word on the card, without speaking...
The Drawing Game

ESL Drawing Game - Vocabulary: Drawing, Guessing - Group Work
In this engaging drawing game, students guess the names of famous films, TV shows, books or people from drawings. Take one student from each team out of the classroom. Tell the two students the name of a famous film, TV show, book or...
The Picture Game

ESL Drawing Game - Vocabulary, Speaking and Listening: Describing, Drawing - Pair Work
In this drawing game, students have to accurately describe a picture for a partner to draw. In pairs, one student is the 'speaker' and the other is the 'drawer'. Give each speaker a copy of the...