Prepare some "Taboo" cards. Each card will have a target adjective at the top and four related taboo words. For example, if the target adjective is "funny," the taboo words might be "joke," "laugh," "comedy" and "humor." Divide the class into teams, and move two desks to the front of the class facing the other students. Each round, one student from each team will sit in the desks. One student will try to elicit the target word from her team while the other student monitors to ensures his competitor doesn't use the taboo words. If a team is able to guess the word before one minute passes, that team gets a point.
Select ten adjectives and ten nouns the adjectives clearly describe. Example pairs include "noisy/marching band," "breathtaking/ocean" and "distant/stars." For smaller groups, the game can be played with cards -- simply make cards with the words (you can use pictures for the nouns to practice even more vocabulary), shuffle them and lay them out on a table. Students take turns flipping cards. When they come up with a matching pair, they get to keep the cards, which signify one point. For bigger classes, the game can be played on the marker board. Assign each word a location in a numbered grid on a sheet of paper, and draw the grid on the board. When a student picks a box, write the word on the board. Erase it after if there is no match.
Have students sit in a circle facing each other. One student begins by picking an adjective, and the next student must say an adjective that begins with the last letter of the previous student's word. For example, the first student might say "happy." The next student might say "yellow," then "wild" and so on until someone can't come up with an adjective. For more advanced students, you can narrow the available answers to adjectives describing place or personality.
Without explaining the activity, create five columns on the board: a person, an adjective, an object, another adjective and a place. Prompt your class for ten examples of each. Divide the class into two groups. The first group must form a question with one word from each column. For example, "What can a farmer do with a giant chainsaw in a dark forest?" The other group then comes up with an answer, such as "He could cut down trees to find his way out of the forest." Students tend to enjoy this activity because the answers can get quite zany.