Pictionary!

Recently, we have used Pictionary to our advantage at almost every school/club at which we teach. For beginning students, we use basic nouns from the vocabulary they've been learning (shirt, pants, glasses, etc.). For more proficient students, we use other words, like "yesterday," "Easter," "walk," and "scared." We've found that the students tended to be a little timid at the offset of the game, but after the first brave souls ventured out, everybody got really into it!

We play this on teams. We often use teams for activities because it allows weaker students to work with stronger students, thus limiting the direct discouragement from personally failing at a task.

After playing several rounds of words that we provide, we have the teams come up with 3-5 of their own words. We then take each team's words and give them to the opposing team. The opposing team is given one of the words, two minutes are put on the clock, and the drawing/guessing begins. If the drawing team is able to correctly guess, they get a point. If they don't, the other team (the one that created the word) receives the point.

It's a hit so far.