I ran across this on You Tube and thought it was really good. It is a bowling game that requires the students to knock down colored pins. The vocabulary words are divided up into colors that correspond to the pin’s color. One team rolls the bowling ball and then the other team has to say a sentence using the words that are organized by color. I know it sounds confusing, but watch this to see how it is done.
Click here for a link to an article at ESL Focus about using ESL games to motivate adults. At the end of the article she offers 10 tips.
More ESL games
http://www.teflgames.com/games.html
http://www.stickyball.net/games-and-activities.html
http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html
http://teachingenglishgames.com/
http://eslplayground.com/
Click here for a cute Alien zookeeper game.