Tagged: ESOL football lessons
Level: Any
Age: Primary – Teens
Target language: Any
Time: 10 minutes +
Preparation: Prepare revision questions
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Code Breakers Literacy games, like code breakers, are useful for students who need to develop literacy in a second language. In this game, students create a code for other students to crack. Focus: Writing, Young Learners Level: Any Age: Kids 9+ Target Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune was originally an American TV game show first aired in 1975. The show has proven to be incredibly popular with over 7,000 episodes filmed to date and more than 60 international adaptations being made. The game Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Alibi Alibi is essentially a role play in which some students play the role of police detectives, while others play the role of suspects. Students can get very into their roles, especially the police who “try to break” the suspects. A version Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Drilling Games and Activities The concept of drilling has its roots in behaviourist approaches to language teaching, such as audiolingualism, which believed that learning a language was largely about correct habit formation. However, while language teaching has moved on to other methods Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Comparative Arguments One way we authentically use comparative and superlative adjectives is to argue about which things are better or the best. Although this exercise doesn’t encourage students to directly argue for one or another thing being better, it does practise this Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Reverse Questions If you need a quick getting to know you (GTKY) activity or lead in, you could do worse than reverse questions. In this game, the answers to a number of questions are put on the board. Students then work out Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Sentence Auction A sentence auction (or grammar auction) is a fun way to review grammatical (or lexical) structures. The main phase of the game is an auction in which students attempt to buy the correct sentences for the lowest price while avoiding Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. What is done/Why did you go? What is done is a no-preparation game that provides controlled practice of passive voice or phrases of purpose while also reinforcing collocations related to different places in town. With some variation it can be altered to Read more…
