Teacher Class Survey
“There can be no educational development without teacher development;….the best means of development is not by clarifying ends but by analysing practice.” Lawrence Stenhouse Getting feedback from your students is vital in my opinion to develop as a teacher. While most institutions will require you to give your students a feedback questionnaire, these usually dont […]
Describe and Draw
Describe and Draw in the classroom. Describe and draw is yet another activity/game that I have had great success with. This allows students to practice listening and speaking skills alongside practice of prepositions and giving as much detail as they can in English. I have used this with all levels and all ages from young […]
ESL Family Fortunes
This game is a bit of fun and a good way to practice lexical sets of vocabulary. Its based on the popular U.K quiz show “Family Fortunes”. As in the orignal programme 100 people have been asked a number of questions. Their answers have been ranked 1 – 4. The team posed with the question […]
Mafia
Mafia The aim of Mafia is for the students to root out who is Mafia before the Mafia kill all the Citizens. I first came across Mafia this year while teaching in Spain. It quickly became popular with students and like some of the other games that can be found in the teens section it acted […]
Natural Disasters
Survivor Almost every text book will have a section on natural disasters and this activity can be a fun way of discussing the students opinions and views in a natural disaster scenario. There are two different handouts included in this post. Handout A shows 24 different items which were given to survivors of the 2011 tsunami. [gview file=”https://eslkidsgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Handout-A-Natural-Disaster.pdf”] Handout […]