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Prepare colored letters of the alphabet on cardboard squares and put them in a bag.
Students must draw a letter from the bag, and work together to create a sentence on the board. Each student mus ...
Time:
depending on class size and amount of paper taken
Level:
All (except complete beginners)
Focus:
Sharing personal information.
Materials:
One roll of toilet pap ...
I find that students at lower levels get bogged down with narratives: they either try to be too imaginative and the grammar goes haywire, or they get all the tenses right but have added no descrip ...
Divide the group in small teams, give a piece of paper to each team, the warmer is called "The longest tail is the winner".
So, ask your students to cut the paper (without using scissors/just wit ...
1. Ask a student 'What was the first thing you did this morning?'
2. When he/she has answered, you can go on asking the same question, or even better, make little variations like 'What wa ...
T dictates half a sentence, SS complete by themselves and read out at the end.
As soon as she walked into the room…..
I’m having a lot of trouble deciding….
One Satu ...
'How Was Your Weekend?'
Boring when it’s asked every Monday, but give SS the identity of a famous person on a slip of paper (or let them think of their own).
In pairs SS ask questions and ...
Split the class in to two groups.
Write up four columns with A, B, C, D on either side of the board.
Call out a topic like Country, Food, Animal, etc. Get them to run to the board and write up a ...
All you need is toilet paper. Firstly you tear off some squares of toilet paper by yourself.
Then you offer to do the same to your students WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATIONS! When everybody has toilet pap ...
Hang up four different posters (example - one of a world map, one of a famous singer, one of a flower, and one of Einstein) in the four corners of your room.
Tell students to choose one corner to ...
Hand a student a ball of yellow yarn.
Have him toss it to another student, while saying something positive about that student and holding onto the end of the yarn.
Continue in this manner until ...
Today's collection contains 11 coloring pages, the following cultures are presented:
Japan (Japanese Lantern, Star Festival Wishing Wands)
China (Chinese Lantern)
America (Ojibway Native Americ ...
Give each student a piece of chalk/pen and tell them to fill the board with pop song lyrics.
Then put them in pairs, and get them to use the words on the board to create a new dialogue.
This is a 'create a picture' project where Ss cut out pieces of the picture, colour them and stick them onto the camping template. After creating this camp-out picture, the students will want to w ...
This 2-page document is a bookmark that you can use as a reward to your students or to accompany your lesson on the topic of nutrition. There is a cute image on the front of the bookmark, and then ...
First, instruct your students to write on a slip of paper the name of one book, CD, or movie that changed them in some way.
Collect the papers, call out the titles, and ask the class if they can ...
This is an exercise to be used after the introduction of Present Perfect Simple. Students must know the structure of the tense in order to do it. It contains pictures to be matched with sentences ...
Copy a page from a comic book, white out the dialogue, make copies for your class, and have them supply utterances for the characters.
To complicate it for your students, you can ask them to 'hav ...
Draw a pancake-shape on the board, and announce that the school will soon be moving to a desert island.
Invite students one by one to go to the board and draw one thing they would like to have on ...
Draw a map of your country or another country that your students know well.
By drawing lines, show students where you went on a trip, and tell them about it.
Then call on several students to do ...
Copy some interesting pictures of people from magazine ads.
Give a picture to each student, have the student fold up the bottom of the picture about half an inch, and write something the person m ...
Copy pages from various ESL textbooks (at an appropriate level for your students), put them on the walls, and have students wander around the classroom and learn a new phrase.
Then have them teac ...
A very helpful thing to practice food vocabulary, there is/there are (also questions and negatives), some, any, no.
You can use it in different ways: for an individual description, pairwork - for ...
Collaborate with your students on a list of famous people, including movie stars, politicians, athletes, and artists.
Have every student choose a famous person, and put them in pairs to interview ...
Choose one topic (food, sports) and elicit a list of examples (food - chicken, pudding, rice).
Then have your student come up with the most unusual combinations of items from that list (chocol ...
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