For some new to teaching English to Koreans, you might find yourself welling up with anxiety about what to do if/when you run out of lesson material to cover during the class. In fact, most new teachers will find themselves burning through the assigned lesson and activities faster than an experienced teacher, simply because they are doing the lesson verbatim and usually without adlib and improvising, which usually comes with experience. In these cases, a new teacher might have to resort to falling back on games. Or any teacher for that matter, who wants to inject some educational fun into the class. Although schools usually frown on the excessive use of games in class, most will be comfortable as long as they remain educational and somehow related to the lesson material that was previously covered.

Koreans, particularly kids, know the word ‘game’ are not at all hesitant to pepper you with the begging for you to play a game with them. Here is a list of old faithfuls as well as ones that Korean kids play with their language, but can be used for English.