Explain Yourself!
The students try to give a reasonable explanation about a made up statement.They can do this exercise in pairs or in a small group. The teacher can also let the students come up with their own statements. - You have a tiger in your bedroom. Explain yourself!
Create Reading Activities from Authentic Text in Minutes with Quillionz
As teachers, we are constantly hearing about the wonders of AI and how it will take over education and make all of our lives easier. Well here finally is a genuine example of something we can use to save time and effort. Quillionz is an AI-powered question generator that can help you to take any text from anywhere and create a range of comprehension or test questions around it. All you need to do to get Quillionz to generate your questions is register and the find the text you want to use. You can copy-paste your text (anything between 300 and 3000 words) into the Quillionz editor, give it a title, select a domain (the domain is the area of study) from the drop-down menu and then click on ‘Proceed’.
Brain Teasers
A girl called GL lives on the eleventh floor of a block of flats. Every morning when she goes to work she takes the lift down to the ground floor. When she comes home in the afternoon, she presses the button for the eighth floor and walks up the last three flights of stairs.
35 ways to introduce your lesson topic
Are you fed up with using the same old methods to introduce your lesson topic? Look no further! Here are 35 ways to kick off your lesson. How many have you tried? Using an anecdote
Two Truths and a Lie Ideas, Examples & Instructions
The game Two Truths and a Lie is a great party game for teenagers and can also be a good icebreaker in meetings, classes or other situations where you need to make introductions. Below are some examples of truths or lies if you're already familiar with the game and just need to get some ideas. These are easy to modify to make them true (or not true) for yourself. For information on how to play the game, see below the examples. This game is also called Two Truths, One Lie or Two Truths and One Not.
Christmas Worksheets ESL Activities Games
In this Christmas vocabulary game, students ask yes/no questions in order to guess words related to Christmas. Give each group of four a set of game cards. The students shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on the desk. Also, give each student a copy of the game sheet. The game sheet shows the Christmas vocabulary on the cards. One student begins by picking up a card from the pile, without showing it to anyone.
Game Word Generator - The Game Gal
When I was putting together this site of games, I discovered that my printable word lists became very popular. I had word lists for pictionary, charades, and other games, and visitors seemed to really like them! So I got to thinking, what’s one step better than a printable list of words for playing pictionary? An online word generator!
JUST GOOGLE IT
Image credit: Chris Pirillo, Creative Commons Whether we like it or not, we are no longer a comprehensive ‘know-it-all’ repository of knowledge in the classroom. Everything we know and more is readily available via smartphone, and students have access to it unless we forbid the use of technology (smartphones) in the classroom. The latter practice is more like trying to herd cats. First, they will find a way anyway, and second, to what greater benefit? They say no teacher can compete with Google.
Switch Sides if...
Last month I was looking for a getting to know you game that I could do with a large group of women for Relief Society. After searching for something we could play I came up with my own game. It is called: It is a spin off of the "This or That" game. Here is how it works: We started by having everyone stand on whatever side of the line they wanted.
This is a WHAT?
I have been meaning to post this activity for a while now – and finally got around to videotaping (does anybody even say videotaping anymore?!) this game so I could show you all. I thought it might get confusing trying to explain it, so a recording is probably better! This game is called, “This is a WHAT?!” The purpose is for the students to practice intonation and vocabulary. I also try to put in items where you have to use plurals and singulars.
M.A.S.H – 90’s throwback game – The Canswedian English Teacher
It’s that time of year when all teachers round the world are panicking about the same thing: What in the heck am I supposed to do with these hyperactive children the last week of school…. Fear not!
15 variations on a grammar auction
Grammar auctions (students bidding for the right to say whether a sentence is right or wrong and/ or correct it, doubling the money they bid if they are right and losing that money if they are wrong) make correcting errors fun and are therefore one of the most popular games in TEFL. Unfortunately, this can […] Grammar auctions (students bidding for the right to say whether a sentence is right or wrong and/ or correct it, doubling the money they bid if they are right and losing that money if they are wrong) make correcting errors fun and are therefore one of the most popular games in TEFL.
ESL Interactive Fun Games for Classroom Practice
ESL Powerpoint (PPT) Games If you are the type of person who prefers to have games on powerpoint or as printable handouts, we have been thinking of you. We offer board games, powerpoint games and more for the classroom and one to one teaching. They have made my lessons fun and I have no doubt yours will be fun too.
