PowerPoint games your students will actually love
Classroom-ready ESL games built by teachers, for teachers. Pick your lesson, choose a game, download, and teach. No design skills needed.
✦ How It Works
From lesson plan to game in seconds
Every game is plug-and-play. No editing required. Just download, open PowerPoint, and teach.
Pick from popular ESL textbooks or define your own vocabulary and grammar focus for a fully custom match.
Filter by skill: Speaking, Listening, Reading or Writing. Preview and download in one click.
Open in PowerPoint and start playing. Every game includes teacher notes with instructions, timing tips, and variations.
✦ Browse Games
Find the perfect game for your class
All games are designed for ESL learners and tested in real classrooms around the world.
✦ My GamesNew
Turn your own PowerPoint into a game
Bring a game you already teach with. Mark where the lesson content goes once, and it fills itself with any lesson's words and sentences, just like our games.
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Add placeholders
Type a placeholder in curly brackets, like
{word}, wherever lesson content should go. Name them however you like. - 2
Upload and check
Pick the game yours is most like, check the settings and point out the game slides.
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Forge it with any lesson
Set a lesson as usual and press 'Forge Game' on your card. Your own slides fill with that lesson's content.
✦ Website Guides
Get the most from ESL Forge
Tips, tutorials and deep-dives to help you run better games with less effort.
Teachers sharing what works
Real feedback from educators using ESL Forge in classrooms around the world.
Your next great lesson is
one click away
Choose a textbook lesson or build your own, then generate a classroom-ready PowerPoint game in under a minute.
