ESL Hangman Games
Consonant Hangman

ESL Hangman Game - Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Forming Words from Prompts - Group Work
This hangman game helps to introduce or revise vocabulary. Draw a blank for each letter in the word you wish to introduce or review on the board. Teams then take it in turns to choose a consonant. If the...
Dice of Fortune

ESL Hangman Game - Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Forming Words or Sentences from Prompts - Group Work
In this fun hangman game, students guess letters in words, phrases or sentences and then roll a dice to try to win points. Draw the six sides of a dice on the board. Assign the following value to each...
Last Man Standing

ESL Hangman Game - Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Forming Words from Prompts - Group Work
In this engaging hangman game, students guess film titles, idioms, slogans, famous people and places from hangman clues. Write the letters of the alphabet on the board. Then, think of a film title, idiom...
Letter by Letter Hangman

ESL Hangman Game - Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Forming Sentences from Prompts - Group Work
In this hangman game, teams guess the letters of a sentence in order and get one guess at each letter. Draw a line for each letter in your chosen sentence. Separate the words with a slash. Write the first letter of...
Parts of Speech Hangman

ESL Hangman Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Guessing, Forming Sentences from Prompts - Group Work
This version of hangman is ideal for practicing parts of speech, sentence structure and grammar. Think of a sentence containing the language point you wish to introduce or revise, e.g. 'He ran really fast'...
Scrambled Hangman

ESL Hangman Game - Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Unscrambling - Group Work
In this ESL hangman game, students guess words by unscrambling letters. Draw a line on the board for each letter of the word you have chosen. Teams take it in turns to choose a letter. If the letter is in the...
Sentence Hangman

ESL Hangman Game - Grammar, Vocabulary and Spelling: Guessing, Forming Words and Sentences from Prompts - Group Work
This hangman game is useful for practicing parts of speech, sentence structure and grammar. Draw a line for each letter in the sentence, separating the words with a slash. Teams then take turns...