Lessons & Classroom Games for Teachers
ESL Game - Tic Tac Toe
By:kr
Title: Tic Tac Toe
Type: Paper activity
Target: Past tense or any vocabulary
Materials: Paper and pencil
Procedure: Students are in pairs and write down plain present tense verbs in
each square of a 3 x 3 grid. The first students chooses a square they want to
write X or O (depending on what they are). They must conjugate the verb to the
past tense and say it out loud. If they get it correct then they can put an X or O
over that square. If they get it wrong then it is the other person’s turn. The first
student to get 3 in a row is the winner.
Comments: This can be used just to practice any vocab by writing words in the
squares and having to say the words aloud, or letters and having them say the
name, sound or word that starts with the letter.