Classroom Game · Level A2 · No sign-up
Welcome to the Hot Seat.
The fast vocabulary game where one player takes the hot seat and the team describes the word on the board — without saying it. Pick your teams and play.
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Teams
2 to 4 teams go head to head.
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Level
A2 everyday vocabulary across 8 topics.
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Time
About 15 to 20 minutes of play.
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Prep
Zero — it runs on your classroom board.
Classroom Game · Level A2
Hot Seat
One player sits in the hot seat and faces away from the board. Their team describes the word on screen — without saying it or the forbidden words. Guess as many as you can before time runs out.
How to play
- Pick teams. Make 2–4 teams. Each team chooses one player to sit in the hot seat, facing away from the screen.
- Describe. A word appears. The team describes it in English — but they cannot say the word, any part of it, or the forbidden words.
- Guess. When the hot-seat player says the word, press Got it! for one point and the next word appears.
- Pass. Too hard? Press Pass to skip (3 passes each turn).
- Swap and score. When the timer ends, the next team plays. Highest score after all rounds wins.
How many teams?
2 teams
3 teams
4 teams
Seconds per turn
45
60
90
Rounds (turns per team)
2
3
4
5
Categories (choose the word banks)
Round 1
Team 1
Choose your hot-seat player and turn their chair away from the screen. Everyone else gets ready to describe.
Category
word
Do not say
Time’s up!
0Team 1 this turn
Final result
Team 1 wins!
Well played, everyone.