Crossword Puzzle Maker | Highly Customizable | Free with No Registration Required You must have an OLD browser. The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features. Not convinced? You can go to the old version by clicking choosing it below. 2 reasons crosswords will not generate: 1. 1. Take the following example word list: "home, cat, dog". A slightly different impossible list: "home", "dog", "lizard" - all 3 have letters that they share! When you add a bunch of words, the chance for it being an impossible can increase (depending on many factors). 2.
ESL Games for the Classroom Alphabet Shout Out Randomly choose an alphabet flashcard and award a point to the first student who shouts out a word beginning with that letter. Alphabet Writing Relay Divide and line up the students into two teams. Divide the board into two halves and have one student from each team run to the board, write 'A', then run to the back of the line. Alphabet Erase relay As 'Alphabet Writing Relay', but this time, write the alphabet on each half of the board and have each team race to erase the letters in order. Alphabet Sculptures Divide the students into teams and call out a letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Soup Give each student an alphabet flashcard and have them skip around the room to the 'ABC Song'. Alphabet Touch Call out letters and have the students find and touch them in the classroom, on posters, etc. Alphabet Wave Give each student a few ordered alphabet flashcards and play the 'ABC Song'. Animal Crackers Take a big dice and assign an animal to each number.
Riddles! If you think you're a ... try these riddles! Do you have a riddle? If so, send it along with the source and the solution to me at mcarlton@calpoly.edu. 1. You are a contestant on the game show Let's Make a Deal, and emcee Monty Hall has a game for you to play. Solution 2. A professor tells her assistant that she dined with three people last night. Solution 3. You stand at a fork in the road. Solution 4. You have undoubtedly heard of those mysterious islands where half the inhabitants always tell the truth and the other half always lie. Solution 5. You have twelve coins, eleven identical and one different. Solution Gordon Marquardt (Milwaukee, WI) created the following solution algorithm. 6. A family has newly moved into the area. Solution 7. "What's your phone number, Drew?" Solution 8. Suppose you're taking a multiple-choice quiz. Solution 9. An old king is about to die and he has no offspring to inherit the crown. The king then tells his aide to put dotted hats on all three. Solution 10. 11.
Maps of several Countries – Mapswire.com Maps of several Countries Maps of Belize Maps of Canada Maps of China Maps of France Maps of Germany Maps of India Maps of Ireland Maps of Italy Maps of Mexico Maps of Spain Maps of the United Kingdom Maps of the United States Twitter – Instagram This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. World Continents Countries Blog Contact & Legal c 2018 Running Dictation I’m sure you all have at least some kind of experience with dictations in the classroom. Most of the time, dictations are considered boring and can get really frustrating for students, especially if they are still learning how to write in their L1. Here is an idea for practicing dictations and making them less painful. Running dictation is a type of dictation in which your students are responsible for it from the start. They should work in pairs and it goes like this: You should come up with a story that you will write on a piece of paper and hang it onto the wall in your classroom. It’s best to give them a story in form of a riddle or something similar because then if someone is done before the others, you can tell them to try and solve it (matter of discipline in the classroom). Here are some links with stories that can be used for a running dictation. How do you get along with dictations?
77 Educational Games and Game Builders I'm often asked if I know of any games for subject "x," "y," or "z" for a particular grade level or age group. My answer is usually yes, but I need to search my archives. Therefore, I've gone through my archives and dug up many of games that I've mentioned over the last four years that are still active online. Consider this my humongous list of educational games. 1. 2.Spin and Spell has been featured on a number of blogs over the last year. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. the World Food Programme's website offers students a large selection of educational online games and activities. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.
Rasterbator Rasterbator The rasterbator allows you to create posters larger than a standard page, using the tiled printing method. It will rasterize any image and output files that can be printed at home and reassemble to the original image. Select your image Compatibility warning: This app has been developed using new web technologies to increase performance and save server costs. Page setup Set the desired size of a single tile and the amount of tiles that you want to print. Preview This is how your rasterbation will look like in relation to a standard door (2m / 80in high). Download If you are happy with your rasterbation, download the rasterized image tiles. Export to PDF if you want to directly pass this rasterbation to your printer. Create PDF Export to JPG if you want to continue working on the image tiles. Create JPGs
Mobile 1Twenty QuestionsDo you remember car trips as a child playing twenty questions in the back seat? You think of a person or object and your siblings have twenty opportunities to ask yes/no questions to determine what object you are thinking of. This is an easy and short activity for you to do with your ESL class when you have a few minutes to spare. The first time you play, your students will need specific direction as to the types of questions to ask. You should help them understand how to ask strategic questions to identify the object. Make the most of the minutes by using one of these engaging and entertaining time filling techniques.
English language learning games ESL/English learning games on Digital Dialects are completely free to use, do not require registration, and are designed for ESL students of all ages. Each ESL revision topic includes vocabulary lists and practice games with audio for teaching correct pronunciation. Materials are of use to beginner level English as a second or other language students, though those with some familiarity with the language may wish to try the English/ESL spelling games. Games for English as a second language include: Numbers in English - learn the English numbers from 1-12, 13-20 and 0-100. Fantasy Name Generator - Generate The Best Fantasy Names
Games Crossword GameJust like an old-fashioned word search! Using the mouse and the wordlist, find and highlight the hidden English words in the box! As the levels get harder, the words start appearing in different orientations. But hurry, the clock is running! ESL TREASURE: Games & Activities Back and forthDivide students into two teams. Get a student from each team to stand up. You set the category i.e. days of the week or fruit etc. The students must say one word then the next student quickly says another related word. When one of them breaks the order (A: Monday B: Tuesday A: Wednesday B: Saturday), takes more than 5 seconds to respond or says an irrelevant word to the category they lose. BingoGive each student a blank sheet of paper. Chair SwapMake one student stand up and turn their chair around so that nobody can sit on it. CharadesBring a student to the front of the class. Concentration Use two copies of the flashcard set. Concentration wordsMake a set of word only cards and do a copy. Crossing the lakeDraw a big lake on the floor. Fast flashcard collectingReveal flashcards to the class one by one. Flashcard Show downTwo students are back to back holding one flashcard each in the centre of the room. Four cornersPut a flashcard in each corner of the room .
3 Secret Codes You've Got to Try With Your Kids I live with two aspiring secret agents, who sometimes need to send important cryptic messages to each other. In addition to experimenting with lemon juice as invisible ink, we’ve been having loads of fun trying out various secret codes and ciphers. And as a bonus, playing with secret codes is a great way to sneak some writing into your summer days! Secret Codes #1: Reverse Alphabet Here’s a simple reverse alphabet code to start with. Secret Codes #2: Pig Pen My girls loved the pig pen symbol code once they had some time to practice with it. We practiced writing our names and silly words before moving to coding whole sentences. Secret Codes #3: Grid A grid secret code is easy to set-up, and is great practice for using coordinates, too. We like leaving secret code notes for each other in unusual places – the bathroom mirror, under a pillow, in the freezer, at the bottom of the slide. Another fun way to play with codes is to set up a scavenger hunt. Szkkb kozbrmt! (That’s “Happy playing!”