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This is a warm-up activity to revise wishes and regrets. Teacher writes the beginning of the sentence "I wish..." and passes a ball or another object (you can make the ball from a sheet of paper - ...
The game is called unchained words. Student A has to say a word in English, and the following one has to say another word beggining with the ending letter. This is a nice way of practicing your pr ...
This is a set of 10 realistic fruit flashcards for your ESL classroom. It also contains several vegetable flashcards (pepper and tomato). These color flashcards will work wonders for your presenta ...
This is a set of 6 basic emotion flashcards - all presented by a cute cat! You can use these free flashcards to present the following emotions to your pre-schoolers or elementary learners: angry, ...
Pupils make a circle or a chain. They should name the letters one by one very quick. pupil who doesn't name right letter must go back to his (her) place. the last pupil is the winner.
This worksheet contains several lesson activities to do with your learners in autumn. Perfect for rainy days!
The following activities are included:
Leaf Walk
Discovery Table
Fluttering ...
The game starts with a student saying a word. The following studest should repeat that word and add another one keeping the idea of a sentence in mind. The following student should repeat the fi ...
All players make pairs, then they stand face to face in two lines. One line is Pepsi, another is Coke. When teacher says ""Coke"" they run and sit on the knee of Pepsis. When teacher says "Pepsi" ...
This collection will come in handy during the Mother's Day lesson. You can also use these clipart pages as flashcards.
Happy teaching, and don't forget to congratulate your own Mom!
When teaching TEFL (teaching english as a foreign language) I feel it is great whenever I can use some time to exercise vocab. I write the alphabet on the board and then I say I am going on a road ...
All students have to, fortunately for us - teachers, study. But not every student likes revising. Here, I present some exercises to revise and refresh your knowledge. It can be used both in the c ...
This can be as simple or complicated as you wish depending on your class level. It may require some preparation on your part as you want to show your students that the exercises can be completed s ...
Make sure your students learn the days of the week in English with this simple game.
Have Ss sit in a circle around you. First say the days of the week yourself, maybe couple of times. Do not wri ...
All the students are standing. The teacher asks questions: Can you swim? Can you play chess? Can you... ? Those students whose answers are positive (Yes, I can)- are still standing. Those who ans ...
This is a collection of twenty-two flashcards (two in each A4 page) about medicine and health, mainly presenting things you can find in hospitals and first aid-kit. There are such words as differe ...
This is like skiing. Divide students into two teams and give each team two blank A4 sheets of paper. It's a race. Students using sheets of paper have to ski same distance and back. In one end of t ...
For the very first lessons. Creating the code of conduct together with the students in an unusual way. Moreover you can present bits and pieces of Present Simple Tense using just this worksheet. C ...
My warmers are usually connected with English idioms or proverbs. I give them to the students in the beginning of the lesson. They can be written at the blackboard. Let's take idioms for example ...
Halloween is the holiday of scary surprises - let your students have fun coloring these amazing Halloween images! Very detailed, they will look wonderful on your classroom walls - or your learners ...
"You have just found a magic wand that allows you to change three work-related activities. You can change anything you want. How would you change yourself, your job, your boss, co-workers, an impo ...
It's probably been done before - maybe by everybody, I don't know.. When I'm starting the term with a new ESL class, I get everyone to think of an adjective that starts with the same letter of the ...
What Halloween symbols do your students know? What about you - are you sure you know enough about them? OK, jack'o lanterns and black cats, but is there anything else that your ESL learners s ...
I started a new topic this week: "My Music", so as warmer I ask them "What does music make you feel?". They've answered very well to the challenge, it's a great topic to talk about and, in fact, e ...
If your teaching ´going to' I like to play the following game: Start by saying that all of us (the class) are friends with Paul (or any name you like), and that we are all going to bring ...
Celebrate this Halloween in style with these 21 Halloween classroom decoration worksheets! Your learners will love these decoration materials (and yes, it's a good idea to ask them to decorate you ...
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