The role of games in learning English plan

Warning: Make a note of each number as you call it out. This will help you to avoid calling out the numbers more than once.
Variation 1: Class work.
Instead of listing out 25 numbers, as above, choose a group of words you would like the learners to revise, for example, concerning clothing, office equipment, food, etc.
Write these on the board and follow the procedure described above.
Instead of calling out four of the words you may choose to give four definitions of words on the board. This makes the game more of a challenge.
Variation 2: Class work.
Write, or ask the learners to write, about ten short sentences on the board. These might all include prepositions, e.g.
The chemist's shop is on the right of the bank.
The chemist's shop is in front of the bank.
The bank is on the right of the post office, behind the library.
The grocer's shop is behind the library.
The toilets are in the park.
The toilets ate in front of the park.
The road goes over the bridge.
The road goes under the bridge.
The sentences may also concern actions, perhaps taken from a picture or pictures, e.g.
The man is drinking tea.
The electrician is repairing the plug. The woman is typing.
The learners choose any four sentences and illustrate them with quick sketches. The game is then played as above.
By using pictures, the learners' attention is focused on the meaning of the sentences, whereas in Variation i the learners merely associate the sound of a word with its written form.
Variation 3: Class work.
If you should want the learners to practice categorizing words according to parts of speech, you could adapt Bingo for that purpose as follows. Provide each learner with a card or piece of paper marked off with six squares (or 'boxes'), one for each part of speech.
Each learner decides which part of speech he/she is going to listen out for and writes them into the top of each of their boxes. They might choose from: verb, article, noun, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, conjunction etc. Such distinctions as 'verb of motion', 'verb - past tense', 'plural noun", 'singular noun', etc. may of course be added with your guidance. You can in this way give practice in the recognition and identification of any parts of speech.
A learner might decide to have more than one box for a part of speech. As you call out words from a prepared miscellaneous list, the learners write them into the correct square on their grid. They only need one word in each box in order to say, Bingo!
Missing words
Language: Reading out loud, comparing, checking, discussing.
Skills: out
Control: Guided.
Level: Intermediate/advanced.
Time: Depends on the length of the text chosen for the game.
Materials: Photocopies of texts at an appropriate level.
Preparation: Take two photocopies of the same text. White out different words in each text; or, if you want to give the learners additional problems, white, 2.6 out the same words in some cases, but not in all. Photocopy each of the resulting (i.e. white out) texts in equal numbers, sufficient for a copy of the two different texts to be given to each pair of learners in the class.
Procedure: Pair work
Each learner has one text and does not let his/her partner see it. Through reading and discussion they compile a complete text and write it down.