One of the games that work perfectly well in my classes is the "mirror
exercise". One student performs an action, and another is in front of
him or her and tries as hard as possible to do the same thing. This
kind of exercise should be theme based; if we are working on food ,
students should for example, perform actions of eating, of preparing a
meal, of going on a diet. Students enjoy a lot such a game and it
serves the objective of the lesson.
Another game that I do with my students is as old as humanity: miming.
This game works a lot especially when verifying students' vocabulary
retention. After having finished studying a set of vocabulary items,
students are split into group. Each group have to do some mimes, the
other groups should of course, guess the word mimed. The group which
scores more is the winner.