Hey guys, welcome to Ande the ESL Guy. Here are my top 5 spelling games, part 1. Game number 1, spelling, tick tick tock. So first of all draw a 3x3 grid on the board and write a letter number in each space. Now the students must then spell out a word with the correct amount of letters. So for example, happy, HAPY. The next theme, feeling a bit confident and goes for I. Imagination. So carry on, play until one team gets 3 in a row. Now you can mix this game up by throwing a sticky ball to select your letter or even increase it to a 4x4 grid just like this. Game 2 is called Hike the Pyramid. Okay guys, for this game draw 2 sets of steps going up and down on the board just like this. Now you can draw more steps than this if you wish. Tell the students you will give them clues about the words they have to write. So for example, you wear this in winter when it's cold. You wear it around your neck. You wear it on your head. And I normally always leave a space at the end where the students have to write any word they can think of with the correct amount of letters. Game number 3, we call Catch and Spell. Have all your students stand up in a circle and prepare either a ball or a balloon. Today in the example, we're going to show you using a balloon. It's slightly more fun and a little more safe. The student who's holding the balloon says a word. When they hit the balloon to the other student in the circle, they have to say the first letter of the word. Hit the balloon back, they say the next letter. Carry on until the word has been completed. If one student miss spells, I normally use a three strike system so they get three chances before they're out. So let's take a look at how it's done. Are you ready? Yes. Tiger. G. Ah. G. E. Ah. Yes. Pencil. P. E. N. C. I. L. Good job. Game 4 is called Correct the Teacher. For this game, you can either have students come up to the board and try to correct the words in a race style or simply have them correct individually in their notebooks. Now, sometimes it's fun to add in certain words that are spelled correctly. Game 5 is called Chain Words. Once again, separate the class into two teams and I like to use a well-behaved student's name as the first word. So here we have Team Sam and Team Lily. So, the students have to spell a word correctly, starting with the last letter of the previous word. This is a good time to tell them that longer words are better. A word starts to each team that passes through the lines. Thanks for watching and look out for part two coming soon.