Esl or efl games

The laughter from this is hilarious as the impressions tend to make the character in question look funny. It is a good idea to encourage students to ask the interviewee student questions about who they are describing. Draw a target with points - like a dart board on the white board or use a cardboard box in the middle of the room. Then, students make paper airplanes and launch them after they answer your question in the form of a sentence. To my surprise they will repeat the sentence several times while I'm helping them just so they can throw their airplane.

For beginner and low intermediate classes, I recommend formulating questions that lead to 1 or 2 types of answers. This allows for better memorization. I recommend giving a prize to make the target points mean something, thus peaking their interest. Write out series of categories like professions doctor, bus driver, etc. One student draws and the other guesses.

Next turn, the guesser draws and drawer guesses. This game works best with the arbitrary stop watch 30 seconds. This is designed for one lesson. Then for another day take the same categories or create new ones and play the same game except students, this time, act it out no speaking or noises.

First, if you have a large class you have to divide it in 2 teams. This is the idea that successful language learning comes through interaction and meaningful communication between students. Our site will help you achieve that through a wide range of different resources.

But what they all have in common is an element of speaking, even if just to share written work. This oral expression and exchange of ideas is vital, not only to check and reinforce knowledge, but as practise for the real world.

We do not propose these activities as a substitute for all traditional grammar-based learning. Another activity where your class will really need to use their imagination. You can use this activity for practically any subject. Design a board game, a piece of furniture, a car, clothing, a new meal for the school canteen, anything you want really.

If you have enough materials and time, you could then make a model in class of your invention. This is a really fun game to play at the beginning of a class as a warmer or if you have some time to fill up at the end. If you are practicing a particular tense or topic, you can make everyone use that when contributing their part. Wolf and the trigger phrase to run accordingly. If you are playing this in a big class with not much space, I have done a really successful version of this where instead of stepping forward, the kids walked on the spot at their desks.

A simple version of a treasure hunt to practice vocabulary. To keep up to date with new posts and teaching ideas , you can follow the GoogooEnglish Facebook page. Alternatively, you can sign up for email updates by filling in the form below.