For many students, the words "English class" are synonymous with "boring." You can spice up English class with some fun games to review any concept they've been learning, from grammar to literature and beyond.

Build a Sentence
This game is perfect for students who need to review the parts of speech. Just write each of the parts of speech that they know in a different area of the board. Students can then write a word on a note card and place it under the correct part of speech. Eventually, there should be a pile of note cards under each part of speech. Make sure to include an "article" pile that includes only "a," "the," and "an," even though an article is used with a noun.

Next, write a simple sentence on the board, such as "The girl climbed the tree." One student should then volunteer to come up and identify each word in the sentence. Another student can take a card from the appropriate pile and place it under the given word in the sentece. At this point, there should be a second sentence under the first, and it should be relatively grammatically correct, such as "A dog ate a book."

You can discuss any grammatical errors in the sentence, as well as why they might have occurred. Use this game as a springboard for a discussion about how the part of speech of a word is based on how it is used in a sentence, so swapping words with similar parts of speech doesn't do much to change the structure of the sentence.

Scavenger Hunt
Give students a list of types of figurative language or poetic devices, such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification and hyperbole. Then, have students work in partners or small groups on a "scavenger hunt" through a piece of literature you are reading. The goal of the scavenger hunt is to find as many of the items on the list as possible. After a set amount of time, have different groups discuss the phrases that they found.

Make a Story
Label several shoe boxes with the elements of literature that you have learned, such as character, setting and theme, and have each student write one note card to put in each box. The note cards may match or be based on a true story, but not necessarily. For example, a student might write "Little Red Riding Hood," "a dark forest at night" and "don't talk to strangers" on his note cards, and another student might write "an old man," "a spaceship on Mars in the year 2050" and "true friends are hard to find."

Students can place the note cards in the appropriate boxes and then mix them around. Each student should then pick one card at random from each of the boxes and attempt to write a story using the elements chosen. Encourage the students to be original with their stories and to make them funny, if they would like.