Going Out and Entertainment ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

Going Out Taboo

ESL Going Out and Entertainment Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Describing, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 25 minutes

In this entertainment vocabulary game, students describe and guess places and actions related to going out and entertainment. In groups of four, students take turns picking up a card and describing the place or action at the top of the card to the other students without saying any of the words shown on the card. The first student to successfully guess the place or action being described wins and keeps the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
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Leisure Lingo

ESL Going Out and Entertainment Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Word Search, Matching, Categorising, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Discussion, Freer Practice - Pair Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 30 minutes

In this going out and entertainment worksheet, students learn and practice vocabulary related to a day out. In pairs, students begin by discussing two questions about spending a day out. Students then find ten places to go on a day out in a word search. Next, students match the places to their definitions. After that, students categorise each place according to its cost in their town or city. Following that, students match nouns with verbs to make going out and entertainment collocations. Students then use the collocations to complete plans for a day out, adding four ideas of their own. Finally, in pairs, students discuss the plans and answer questions about them. When the students have finished, they share and discuss their answers with the class.
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A Bad Day Out

ESL Going Out Activity - Vocabulary, Reading and Speaking Activity: Gap-fill, Information Gap, Matching, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work - Intermediate (B1) - 25 minutes

In this going-out information gap activity, students complete sentences about problems people had on a day out and exchange information with a partner to find out where each person went. First, in two groups, students complete sentences about problems people had when they went out to different places with words from a box. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking their partner about the problems experienced by the people whose details are missing from their worksheet and writing their partner's responses in the table in sentence form. After that, pairs race to complete sentences by writing the correct person's name next to the corresponding place or event that they went to. The first pair to complete all their sentences correctly wins.
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Entertainment Dilemmas

ESL Going Out and Entertainment Game - Vocabulary: Gap-fill, Multiple-choice Questions, Guessing - Pair Work - Intermediate (B1) - 25 minutes

Here is a free going out and entertainment vocabulary game in which students ask a partner hypothetical questions about going out and guess which answers they would choose. Working alone, students begin by completing questions with words from a box. Next, students underline the multiple-choice answer in each question they think their partner will choose. Students then take turns reading each question along with its three multiple-choice options to their partner, who chooses the answer that is true for them. If students guess correctly, they put a tick next to the question and score a point. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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That's Entertainment!

ESL Going Out and Entertainment Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Unscrambling, Binary Choice, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity - Pair Work - Intermediate (B1) - 25 minutes

In this entertainment vocabulary worksheet, students learn and practice vocabulary related to going out and entertainment. To begin, students complete collocations related to going out and entertainment with verbs from a box. Next, students rearrange letters to spell place names and write the letter of the activity from Exercise A that someone would do at that place. Students then underline the correct place in each sentence. After that, students complete sentences with vocabulary from a box and write the place each sentence refers to. Next, students match sentence halves and complete the endings with words from a box. Lastly, in pairs, students ask and answer conversation questions about going out and entertainment.
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