ESL Sentence Race Games
Alphabet Madness

This fun sentence race game helps students to practice parts of speech and sentence structure. Explain that the teams are going to race to make sentences using only words that begin with a certain letter. The first team to make a grammatically... read more
Balloon Buster

This entertaining sentence race game is ideal for practicing sentence word order. Give each team balloon number one. Inside each balloon should be folded word slips that make up a sentence. When you say 'go', the teams try to pop their balloons... read more
Sentence Race

This useful sentence race game can be used to practice time expressions used with different tenses. Give an identical set of time expression cards to each team. Ask the teams to shuffle the cards and spread them out face down on the table. Assign... read more
Splat

This sentence race game can be used to help students practice vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. Students begin by sticking a word card containing the target vocabulary on their chest. Have the students stand in a circle. Stand in the... read more
Translation Race

This popular ESL sentence race game can be used to help students practice any language point. One player from each team comes to the front of the class and sits with their back to the board. Write a sentence on the board behind the two players... read more
Words to Sentences

This engaging sentence race game can be used with large classes. The game is useful for practicing or revising vocabulary, parts of speech and sentence structure. Assign each team member a number. Call out a number and a word from your word... read more