For more ESL games and activities, click here. Pin the Tail Join my telegram channel for teachers. Click here This classic party game can easily be used in the classroom to practice directions and develop listening, coordination and cooperation skills. Focus: Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary, Young Learners Level: Beginner Age: Kindergarden/Primary Read more…
Tagged: kids English games
Level: Beginner
Age: Kindergarden – Primary
Target language: Clothes, describing appearance, likes/dislikes, questions
Time: 5 minutes +
Preparation: None
Tagged: first world problems
Level: Upper-Intermediate
Age: Teens +
Target language: Vocabulary related to societal problems, so/such e.g. There is such high employment that …/There is so much bureaucracy that…
Time: 30 minutes+
Preparation: None essential
For more ESL games and activities, click here. What Have You Got? This very simple activity has become one of my regular routines for revising vocabulary with small primary classes. Focus: Young Learners, Lexis, Speaking Level: Beginner Age: Primary Target Language: Concrete nouns, What have you got?/I’ve got…, indefinite article Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. A Chairway to Heaven In our view, the best classroom games for kids require no or little preparation beforehand, just like this one. However, as with all games with young children, it may take a few times of playing for children to Read more…
For more ESL games and activities, click here. Two Truths and a Lie Two truths and a lie, or sometimes even three truths and a lie, is an often used icebreaker in team building sessions. However, when it comes to English teaching, it is also possible to use two truths 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. Balloon Debates It can be difficult to think of debate topics that get students engaged. One that rarely fails is the balloon debate, as students have to debate as though their life depends on it! The basic idea is that a number Read more…
The Interruptions Game For more ESL games and activities, click here. Although we tend to think of interrupting as negative, it is in fact an essential skill for managing turn taking in a conversation. We need to be able to interrupt for a variety of reasons: We need clarification on 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…
