English games and activities for ESL and EFL

  • Highly effective whole-class english teaching activities engage all abilities
  • 12+ english games in every product - familiar, flexible, for whole-class or revision
  • 1000+ clearly drawn pictures cover your ESL / EFL curriculum
  • Every picture linked to editable english text and native (UK) speaker speech file
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Online english ESL EFL games and activities with specially developed topics and native speaker english speech for all images. Primary, secondary + adult.
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ESL EFL games and activities desktop software for secondary pupils and adults
English language games and activities for teaching secondary pupils and young adults. Desktop software to teach ESL + EFL using games and activities.

For secondary teaching 11 to 16 years and adults.
ESL EFL games and activities for primary / elementary level (ks1 and ks2)
ESL EFL games and activities for primary / elementary kids.
Desktop teaching english games and activities with MelvinJunior.

For primary teaching (ks1 and ks2 | 5 to 11 years).

ESL activities


MelvinJunior, Introducing the language with the topic Verbs


All 3 products ship with 4 esl teaching activities for introducing language, for extending that language through listening, speech and writing, and for language revision. Our esl activities are suitable for all abilities of esl student and can easily be extended into a multitude of esl speaking activities as the teacher requires.

ESL games


Teach Online, Picture reveal with the primary topic Dwellings


All 3 products ship with 12 games - these include esl hangman, esl snakes and ladders and esl 4 in a row. Some of the esl games are suitable for small group or individual revision, but all are suitable for whole class teaching of esl using the interactive whiteboard or data projector.

ESL topics

Our products come with predefined esl topics to cover all your beginner esl and intermediate esl needs. Each topic is a set of specially drawn esl pictures complete with a simple text and corresponding speech file. Secondary / adult topics have 20 pictures, primary kids topics are 10 pictures each. Our esl topics include esl sports, esl food, esl family members, etc.
Some topics supply simple vocabulary (food, rooms, places, adjectives, etc, while others come with complete sentences (family members, sports, etc).



All topics can be extended in all products by creating custom texts that you can easily load in any section of the software, giving you an extensible esl resource that grows with your esl students. In Melvin and MelvinJunior you can also create custom topics by combining any of the pictures - these will automatically pick up the appropriate default language for use in the games and activities.

ESL worksheets

Melvin and MelvinJunior come with a print wizard with which you can print out esl worksheets for your esl students. These printable worksheets are mainly games based, but also include labelling sheets. The worksheets can be printed with any of the 54 topics supplied with Melvin / 40 topics supplied with MelvinJunior or with your own custom topics.

ESL vocabulary

Each of our esl topics is supplied with a simple esl text and esl speech file (uk pronunciation). Many topics are based on simple esl vocabulary e.g. clothes for esl, lost property for esl, garden items for esl, etc, etc. Both Teach Online and Melvin are supplied with 54 topics, MelvinJunior with 40 topics.

ESL for beginners and intermediate

Our products are suitable for both esl beginner students and esl intermediate students at both primary and secondary ages, as well as adults seeking to learn english as a second language.

ESL reading

In any game or activity, displaying the esl text for a picture is a button click away. These texts can be revealed and hidden, and can be edited to save your own language for any topic. Reading is facilitated by the availability of speech events for every standard text that can be played along with revealing the text - whether to show just text, play just speech or both is up to the teacher, or you can switch off all language and supply your own esl language.

ESL listening

With an esl speech file for every picture, esl listening activities are easily supported by all 3 products.