Top 5 ESL Flashcard Games and Activities for Kids | Fun Idea...
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Flashcard games are a great activity for children learning ESL! Flashcards get your students active and help them learn while having fun. Check out my video on ESL flashcard games and activities, and bring them to life in your own classroom! --------------------- Find out how to teach children new words in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PL0XYG_OJ8& --------------------- Want to find out more? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-flashcard-games/ 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Kids: https://amzn.to/3vZO18Y https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #flashcards #teachingenglishwithjackie #flashcards_for_kids #flashcardsforkids #teachingenglishabroad ---------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------- More TEFL flashcard ideas from @Andy - The ESL Guy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYpHhndRQU -------------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:32 Concentration 1:17 Flashcard questions 1:51 Yes/no questions with a partner 2:17 Secret word 3:00 20 questions 3:42 Conclusion Transcript for ESL flashcards games and activities: It's Jackie from esleaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL flashcard games for kids. Now honestly when I teach kids, I never go into class without a set of flash cards. It's kind of like my teaching security blanket or something. I don't know, anyway, but it's like I love flash cards. I can't get enough of them. Don't set foot into a children's ESL classroom without some flashcards and you will thank me later and you will know the power of the flash card. So anyway, here are top my top five ESL flashcard games and activities you can do with your students. The first one is concentration. So if you have like a picture and then a word, it's perfect. That will help students remember new vocabulary. So I put about 16 together and put students into groups of four. They shuffle them and place them face down on their desk. The first student will take two cards. If they match, they keep it and get a point. If it doesn't match, they put it back in the same spot and then the next student goes. So it's basically like a memory game. You probably will have to make your own flashcards for this but it's actually quite simple and there are actually like there's a ton of great stuff on the internet as well. All right, the next one, flashcard questions from the teacher. If you have a smaller class of say less than five or six students, the teacher asking questions based on the flash cards is perfect. So maybe you have a flash card of a cat. You could show it and you could say, do you have a cat? Yes, I do. Or, you could give the flash card to the student and they could ask the teacher, do you have a dog? No, I don't. Simple questions like that. Or maybe brushing your teeth, you could say, what time do you brush your teeth or how often do you brush your teeth? The next one is very similar but students go together. So in pairs, give them a stack of flashcards and they have to ask yes-no questions based on what they see on the flashcard. Maybe, do you like soccer? Yes, I do. What time do you go to bed? I go to bed at 8pm. Something like that so it can really be used for just about anything so yeah use your discretion but yes-no questions are perfect for that. The next one is secret words. So this works really well for smaller classes. You can play together as a class but in bigger classes, you can play maybe in groups of like five or six. So there's one captain at the front of the class and they have a set of flash cards but they can't see them. I would hold the flash card in front of me. All the people in the class or the other five or six people in my group could see the flashcard and they have to give me hints and then I have to guess what the flash card is. So you can make it into a big elaborate game with rounds and different teams and that kind of thing, or it can just be like a fun thing for students in their group. All right, the next one is 20 questions. So this is a really ideal way to play 20 questions but not let it get out of control. For example, there's always the kid who's going to choose like an armadillo or whatever. That one random animal that nobody in the class knows and then it's going to be so frustrating and people will be angry and whatever so I generally combat this by giving the person who has the secret thing, I give them a flash card based on whatever we are studying. So maybe it's a job or animals or just whatever. If it's an animal that they see and it's a giraffe and then they know that that's their secret thing and then students have to ask 20 questions or 20 guesses to figure out that it is a giraffe. Alright so that's it, those are my flashcard games for kids.
Top 5 ESL Review Games and Activities | Fun English Review G...
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If you’re looking to make sure your students understood what you taught them in a previous lesson, consider using an ESL review activity or game! I've compiled my top 5 review activities and games for you to use in your classroom. Review is key in any language class. Students won't remember new vocabulary or grammatical structures until they see them multiple times! That's why I love to review at the end of the class, at the beginning of the next class, at the month's end and then before an exam. Check out the video for my favourite TEFL review ideas. ---------------------- Try out this very fun ESL review game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49gRYbDrqBQ --------------------- Want to find out more about ESL review ideas? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/fun-classroom-games/ 39 ESL Review Games & Activities: https://amzn.to/3feSiP0 https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #review #teachingenglishwithjackie #reviews #eslteacher #englishteacher -------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------- Check out more review games from @Pocketful of Primary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Agy8igabQ -------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:08 Board games 0:49 Surveys 1:34 Flashcard sentences 2:03 Dictogloss 2:50 Roleplays 3:39 Conclusion Transcript for ESL review activities: Hi everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my favourite ESL review games. I love using board games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2qGOdfoiVk) in my classes. The secret is that it's super easy to make your own to review just about anything. Quite literally almost any grammar point or vocabulary point once you have a little template which I use. You can check it out on my website. The link is below. You can make your own board game in I want to say like 15 minutes. And once you make the simple past board game you'll have it forever. You can just search in Google Drive or whatever. Another good one is should/shouldn't and can/ can't, something like that. So those are all great things to do for board games. The next review game is a survey. So this is where students have a set of questions. For example, maybe the pp (present perfect), have you ever gone skydiving? And then there is a follow-up question that they would do in the simple past. So if you're talking about pp and simple past, this is the obvious thing to do. So a student would have his piece of paper in his hand and then a pencil as well and he would talk and ask a classmate, have you ever gone skydiving? His classmate, yes I have. Then the student would have to ask a follow-up question. When did you go? I went two years ago. All right, the next one is flashcard sentences (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIbOJklCO8&). This is for kind of absolute beginners as a nice way to review vocabulary or basic grammar as well. If you have a flash card, there's maybe a cat flash card, just show the flash card and absolute beginners could actually just say a cat or it's a cat or something like that. For more advanced students, you could get them to ask questions. Maybe one student picks up the card, see a cat, they ask a question. do you have a cat? Yes, I do. Or, no I don't. The next one is dictogloss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-IkZZqvFM&t=2s). This is for slightly more advanced students. It's a listening-focused activity so write up a dialogue, not a dialogue. Well, I don't know, it's not a dialogue. It's just a monologue I guess that has a bunch of the target grammar or vocabulary in it. And then put students into groups of two. They each have a pen and paper. Then read out the dialogue at a faster than normal pace, like quite a quick pace. Students have to take notes and then talk with their partners and attempt to recreate what they've heard. They can do this either by writing or speaking. It's really up to you. Then read it out again. Students kind of add more to what they have and then they can compare their version with the teacher's version in the end. The last review game that I like is role-plays. So if you're talking about a bunch of vocabulary, there are some vocabulary that lends themselves super well to role-plays. Things like buying, shopping at the store. For example, you're talking about money, you're talking about maybe clothes, whatever. Have students make up a little role play of going to the store and talking about buying something, talking about money, etc. Another one is maybe someone sees their friend and they're not feeling well so they're asking questions about that. Or, maybe some functional language like someone has to cancel an appointment with a friend. You can maybe do a little phone call role play to do that. So that works for just about anything quite honestly for beginners. Those are my favourite ESL review games to try out with your students!
Top 5 ESL Writing Activities and Games | The Best Ideas for ...
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Do you teach ESL writing? Then you're definitely in the right place. Check out the best ESL writing games and activities, along with lots of other great ideas for English writing lessons and classes. Have some fun with these ESL writing exercises that'll work for any level. Teaching English writing doesn't have to be super difficult if you have some fun ideas for lesson plans in your back pocket. Watch the video for the top ideas for EFL/ESL writing activities. Want to find out more about teaching English writing? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-writing/ ESL Writing, Activities and Games (on Amazon): https://amzn.to/33DBlZg https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #englishwriting #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslteacher #eslteaching #teachingenglishabroad -------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------- Fun ESL writing activities from @Tasnim Salah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCzn5yk0qNk ------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:07 3 things 0:26 Journaling 0:49 Postcards 1:15 Dictogloss 1:45 Application form 2:17 Conclusion Transcript for top 5 TEFL writing activities: Hey everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today, I'm going to talk about my top five ESL writing activities. The first one is three things. This is a quick warm-up activity. Just put students into pairs and each person writes down three nouns. They change papers and then the other person has to write a quick little story about the nouns. It can be quite silly or funny, serious, I don't know. It is whatever the students make it but it's a nice warm-up activity. The next one is journaling. So I like to get my students not always doing super serious writing. Journaling is a nice way to get students to work on fluency. You can do it for homework or do it at the beginning of each writing class. The goal is just for students to write quickly without necessarily editing or filtering what they write. The next one is postcards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyFQAFMZUM). So this is kind of a fun group writing activity if you can get your hands on some blank postcards for pretty cheap. Put students into groups and they need to come up with a place that they all went to and then they can write a postcard to their teacher or their grandma or something like that, talking about what they ate, what they did, etc. Display them around the class and have students present their postcards to the class and talk about the pretend trip that they took. The next one is dictogloss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-IkZZqvFM). So this is an activity for higher-level students. Find a passage or write one yourself that covers the key grammar or vocabulary that you want to cover and then put students into pairs and read it out at a faster than normal pace. Students take notes and then compare what they have with their partners. Repeat the process and then students can write out their final version of what they think they heard and then they can compare what they have with the original version in the end. The last one is an application form. When i did the CELTA, my tutor told me that writing is more than a formal academic essay and of course, it is but that's always what I thought so I'd feel overwhelmed about teaching writing to beginners. But a nice activity, kind of for high beginner or intermediate level students is to print out some application forms and then have students fill them out. It's a different set of vocabulary and it's also a very practical skill if you're teaching in an English-speaking country or to students who are planning on going to an English-speaking country. That's it. Those are my top five ESL writing activities. If you like this video, please hit like, subscribe, and tell your friends. Also, be sure to check out the blog post with lots more ESL writing activities.
Top 5 ESL Games to Get Students Talking | Make TEFL Conversa...
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Many of our students say they want to practice their conversation skills. You can use these English conversation activities to help them do just that and to work on speaking more fluently at the same time. These ESL conversation games and activities are interactive, engaging, and student-centred. Try out some fun ESL speaking games today. Watch this video for tips and games on how to incorporate ESL games into your classroom to get your students excited about learning! Check out the blog post after for some more great ideas for getting your students talking in English class. Even more ESL convo games and activities here: https://www.eslactivity.org/top-7-english-conversation-activities-for-adults/ --------------------------- Even more fun ideas for teaching English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMaxTc1StFM& ----------------------------- Want to find out more about teaching ESL speaking and conversation? 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #eslteachers #eslgames #eslactivities --------------------------- More fun ideas for the TEFL classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------- Even more ESL speaking activities from @Charlie's Lessons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFXdmHkUvE&t=4s ------------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:08 Just a minute 0:50 Information gap activities 1:14 Getting to know you bingo 1:52 Debate 2:25 Find something in common 3:10 Conclusion Transcript for ESL conversation activities and games: This is jackie from eslspeaking.org. So let's talk about the top five ESL games to get students talking. The first one is just a minute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJOTGxaN9w&t=1s). Put students into groups of four and then number them: one, two, three, four. Write a bunch of topics on the board: hobbies, family, sports, movies, TV, whatever. You can even get students to shout out things that they want to talk about. Scrunch up a paper ball and throw it at the board. It'll hit one of the words or come close to one of the words. Then the first person in each of the groups has to talk about that topic for one minute without stopping. The other three people in the group have to listen and then ask a follow-up question related to what they said and then continue with numbers two, three, and four. The challenge of this game is to talk for the entire minute and then also to ask an interesting and relevant follow-up question. Number two: information gap activities and games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJnHU7HWCA). These get students talking because each student has half the information and they have to interact with each other to get the full set. For example, a classic one would be a map with different locations on each map and students have to ask, "What's next to the bank?" or, "What's across the street from the school?" and then fill in the blanks on their paper. Alright, number three is getting to know you bingo. So I have students fill in their cards with things that they think some people but not everybody in the class will be able to say yes to. For example, has a brother, grew up in the city where your school is, likes pepperoni pizza, is a vegan, etc., whatever. For lower-level students, you could give a list of things already. Higher-level students, you can give some examples and then they can fill in the card themselves. After that they have to circulate around the class, asking their classmates questions and the goal is to get maybe a line or to cover all the squares, whatever you decide you want that to be. Number four is a debate. I like to do very simple debate debates. I choose a controversial topic and I ask who disagrees, and who agrees. Ideally, it's kind of an even match and then those two students will get together: one agrees, one disagrees and have a little debate. And then I will get each group if it's a small class to summarize kind of what they talked about in the main points. So there are a ton of different ways you could do this and you could even do it as an entire class activity if you wanted. Then finally the last game to get people talking is to find something in common. This is an excellent icebreaker activity to do on the first day of class. Each student has to stand up with a pen and paper and they have to circulate around the class, talking to as many classmates as possible, asking them questions and the goal is to find something in common with that person. For example, do you play the piano? Or, do you play a musical instrument? What kind of sports do you like? What's your favourite food? How long have you studied English? What's your hometown? etc. Once they find that thing that they have in common, they can write down that person's name and then also just a quick note about what's in common.
Top 5 Fun Classroom Games for ESL/EFL | Games to Play in Eng...
34K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
If you’re looking to create some fun and excitement in your classes, then consider these fun classroom games for ESL/EFL. This video will get you started with awesome and fun English games to try out with students! Watch along, and comment - what do you think of these games? Would you suggest any other ESL or EFL games and activities to excite your classroom? Help your students learn English in a fun, student-centred, and engaging way with these classroom games for kids, teenagers or adults. Need more ideas to have some fun in the TEFL classroom? You'll want to check out even more of the best ideas right here: https://www.eslactivity.org/fun-classroom-games/ ---------------------------- More fun ideas for young learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMaxTc1StFM& ----------------------------- Want to find out more about fun classroom games? 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #eslgames #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #teachingenglishabroad #eslteacher -------------------------------- Solid advice for teaching ESL: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------- More ideas for fun ESL games from @Andy - The ESL Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Si6SJUOj4c&t=1s -------------------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:13 Concentration 1:03 Mystery box 1:37 A-Z game 2:37 Odd one out 3:05 Twenty questions 4:09 Conclusion Transcript for fun ESL games and activities: Hi everybody. It's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today it's all about the top five fun classroom games. This is for English learners or ESL or EFL classes. The first game is concentration. This is excellent for helping students remember new vocabulary words. Make up some sets of cards. So for example, there's maybe, if you do animals, there's a picture of an elephant, a tiger, cheetah. And then on the other card, you have the words elephant, tiger, cheetah. Put students into groups of maybe three to five and each group would get a set of cards. They mix them up and place them face down kind of in an organized fashion on one of the desks. They can do rocks, scissors, paper. The first student grabs two cards. They turn them over: tiger picture but elephant word. Not a match so they put them down in the same spot. They do not mix them up randomly but in the same spot and then the next student goes. It's basically just kind of a memory matching game that focuses on vocabulary. All right, the next one is the mystery box. So this is a great game for kids who are just learning some very basic words. For example, classroom vocabulary. Make up kind of a fun box with a hole in it and you can cover the hole with some tissue paper or I don't know, just something, whatever to kind of cover it loosely. One student can reach their hand in and they can feel around and maybe make some guesses about what kind of objects are in there, how they feel, are they hard, soft, long, thin, thick, heavy, light, etc. Number three, is the A to z game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8UuOQEuWM). So this is a nice activity if you think that students have already covered that topic that you're teaching that day quite well. It can help them to activate their prior knowledge about vocabulary words. So let's use the example of animals again. I put students into groups of two or three and I have them write the alphabet on a piece of paper so a, b, c, d, all the way to z. If you want to save time, you could just give a handout that has done this already. And then I say okay, you have two minutes to write down as many animals as you can. One per letter. So for example, maybe they don't know an a, they could skip it. Then bat, cat, dog, fish, monkey, tiger, etc. After the two minutes, the team with the most animals is the winner. Number four is odd one out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vtLosY1JA). So this is a simple warm-up activity to work on critical thinking skills and also vocabulary. Write down four words on the board. Here's a very simple example: apple orange banana carrot. I put students into groups of two and they have to say which one is the odd one out and why. For this one, the obvious thing is a carrot because it's a vegetable and not a fruit. Number five is 20 questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0Osbuh8yg). This is a classic game that you've probably played before but it's also quite fun to play in English classes. For lower-level students, it can be a little bit tricky. I sometimes make it into 10 questions and it's more related to a certain topic. For example, animals. If you want to kind of prevent the one student from choosing platypus or t-rex or just something kind of like the other students may not know or would never guess you can give flash cards. And whoever holds the secret and is answering the questions, has to do it with that flashcard.
Top 5 ESL present perfect activities | Games and activities ...
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Want more information about Present Perfect Activities? Check out this blog post which contains more information, including some present perfect examples: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-present-perfect/ Are you looking for some ESL present perfect games and activities to try out with your students today? Then you’re most definitely in the right place. Keep on watching for our top five p.p. activities for English learners, along with some present perfect questions and a quick primer on what the present perfect actually is. We have a separate video explaining the Present Perfect Tense is right here: https://youtu.be/ntSosNLL3SU Want to find 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities for Adults? Check out my book: hhttps://amzn.to/3sPqMiP https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingEnglish #teachingenglishwithjackie #presentperfecttense Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:13 Present perfect examples 0:40 Surveys 1:18 Board games 1:54 Dictation 2:22 Timelines 2:47 Dialogue substitution 3:19 Conclusion Transcript for ESL present perfect games and activites: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslactivity.org. So today I'm going to talk about the top five ESL present perfect activities. Some examples of the present perfect are: I've gone bungee jumping. That means I went bungee jumping at some time in the past but the time is unknown. You can also use it to describe something that began in the past and continues until now. For example, she studied for hours. She started studying at some time in the past and is still studying until the present. All right, so here are the top five ESL present perfect activities you can try out with your students. Okay, so the first activity that you can use are surveys. This is the ultimate way to combine the present perfect with the simple past. You can fill up your survey sheet with present perfect questions. Have you been bungy jumping? Have you read Harry Potter? That kind of thing. Then students will ask their classmates and if a student says yes, yes I have been bungee jumping, the student can switch to a follow-up question in the simple past. When did you go bungee jumping? Oh, I went bungee jumping last year, and then I get students to take some very brief notes, just with a name and then their follow-up answer. The second activity for the present perfect is board games. You can fill up your board game grid with some special squares like go back, to trade places with the person on your left, have a rest, etc. but the rest of the squares you can fill up with present perfect questions. When a student lands on that square they have to answer that question and then give one follow-up detail. So for example, Have you been bungee jumping? Yes, I have. I went last year or if they answer no, I haven't then they could say something like but I'm interested in going, or wow that sounds really scary, I never want to go bungee jumping, something like that. The third one is dictation. So dictation I know is a little bit of an old-school activity but it actually has a lot of value. I would simply say the question, Have you been bungee jumping? Students have to write it down in their notebooks and then they can answer the question with yes I have, or no I haven't. Conversely, you could give some answers, yes I have no I haven't, and students write them down and then they can make up a true question for themselves. The fourth activity is timelines. This isn't really necessarily an activity, however, it's really useful for explaining the present perfect. So we use it for two situations to describe an indefinite time in the past: I've been bungee jumping or something that began in the past and continues up until the present. So I love using timelines to kind of explain the subtle difference between those two things and then how to actually use the present perfect. The fifth one is dialogue substitution. So maybe your students are kind of like mine and if I give them a dialogue to read with a partner, you can often find them in the textbooks the students just kind of blow through them and they don't actually pay any attention to what they've read. So I'll say something like, has bob been bungy jumping? I don't know! But they just read a whole dialogue about it so the way that I kind of combat this is I remove some of the key words from the dialogue. -------- Tags: esl, teaching esl, English, learning English, English teacher, classroom tips, TEFL, efl, tefl, teaching English, teaching teenagers English, teaching kids English, easy lesson plan, simple lesson plan, esl ideas, games for everyone, Study, study tips, TEFL Game, TEFL activity, Learning games, Learning activity, Present perfect
ESL Preposition Games for Kids | TEFL Prepositions of Place ...
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If you're looking for some fun ESL preposition games and activities for kids, you're in the right place. Watch the video for some of my favourite prepositions of place ideas for English lessons. When teaching ESL students, you can explain that prepositions are used to show relationships between places, people and objects. Some of the most common ones are: in, at, on, out of, onto, etc. Check out the video and my blog post for more preposition ideas for children for the classroom! It's teaching prepositions of place to kids made easy! ----------------------- Try out this prepositions of place online memory quiz with your students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhkQCSZuE0g ----------------------- Want to find out more about teaching English to kids, including prepositions? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/preposition-place-games/ 101 ESL Activities for Kids: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #preposition #teachingenglishwithjackie #prepositions #teachingenglish #esl -------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ------------------------------ Another fun preposition game for kids from @English Teaching Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbeodiPerlM ------------------------------ Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:16 Preposition memory game 0:58 Is that sentence correct? 1:23 Information gap activities 1:51 Concentration 2:27 Picture prompt 2:54 Conclusion Transcript for prepositions of place ESL games for kids: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about the top five ESL prepositions of place games and activities for kids. Prepositions are things like in, on, under, beside, and next to. There are a whole bunch of them. The first one I like to do is a memory game. I flash up a picture on the screen with various objects that would lead to preposition usage. I give students maybe one to two minutes to study the picture. I don't let them take notes and then at the end of the minute, I take down the image and I ask questions. For example, where's the ball? And the students would have to write, the ball is on the desk or something like that, for example. You can adapt it based on the level of your students. For lower level, you could just say, is the ball on the desk or under the desk? And students can just write on or under. Just one word. Higher-level students can write the entire sentence quite easily. The next one: is that sentence correct. This is similar in that there's an image on the screen and then I ask students questions. For example, is the boy next to his mom? Yes, he is. Or, no he isn't. Or, where is the ball? They could write the ball is on the desk, something like that. This isn't a memory game so it's a little bit easier than the previous one. The next one-information gap activities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJnHU7HWCA&t=32s). They are perfect for prepositions of place. This is when one student has half the information, and the other student has the other. The classic one is that there is a city map and this student has the bank and the fire hall and the school and the bakery and they have to talk to each other to find out the complete set of information and write it all down. They'd have to ask questions like, where's the bank? Where's the school? The school's next to the bank, etc. Things like that. The next one is concentration. So this is a really good one for beginners. Write down the word in and then show a picture of something in. And then on, plus a picture of something on. Cut up the cards, and put students into groups of four. They arrange them on their desks in an organized fashion, maybe about 12 to 16 of them. Four students in a group. The first student uncovers two cards. If they match, they keep it. If they don't match, they put them back in the same spot and then the next student goes. Continue on until all the cards are gone. You can mix it up and even play again if you want as well. The next one is picture prompt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPDFKzCVj8). So this is a really nice warm-up one to introduce prepositions of place. Flash up a picture on the screen that leads to preposition usage and then just ask some leading questions like, where's the boy? He's in the park. Who is he with? He's with his mom. Why is he always next to his mom? Okay, so you can just ask questions like that to elicit the target information that you want. That's it for prepositions of place activities for kids.
ESL Christmas Games and Activities: Have fun TEFL Christmas ...
24K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! Bring the holidays into the ESL or EFL classroom and teach your students new vocabulary. These are great ESL Christmas games and activities to bring Christmas to the classroom and introduce your students to holiday-related vocabulary. Best of all, have some fun in your English class during the holiday season. I have a ton of super-practical, education ideas for an ESL Christmas lesson. You'll enjoy it, and your students will too. Watch the video for my top ideas for Christmas lesson plans. ----------------------- Try out this simple warmer that's ideal for a Christmas lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPDFKzCVj8& ------------------------ Want to find out more about TEFL Christmas games, activities, lesson plans, and more? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-christmas-activities/ 63 ESL Holiday Games & Activities: https://amzn.to/2QbjWEn https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #christmas #teachingenglishwithjackie #tefl #teachingenglish #eslteachers --------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------- More ideas for ESL Christmas lessons from @Linguish: Language School for Kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjoQhTcvz1U ------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:17 Guess how many candies 0:45 Christmas cards 0:59 Home Alone movie 1:21 Charades/Pictionary 1:46 Crossword puzzles 2:09 Christmas carols 2:27 Word association 2:44 Conclusion Transcript for ESL Christmas activities and games: Hey everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top seven ESL Christmas games and activities. If you want to have a fun class leading up to Christmas or even if you're in a country where Christmas is not a public holiday but you want to celebrate it with your students, here are some great ideas. This is one that I love to do on almost all holidays, valentine's day, Halloween, Christmas, etc. Get a bunch of candies and put them in a jar but first count the number of candies as you're putting them into the jar. And then I let every student at my school or in my classes or however you want to do it. They get to guess how many candies there are in the jar. The winner gets to take it home or share with their classmates, whatever they would like to do. Number two: I get students to make Christmas cards. So I show them some examples of Christmas cards, some sayings, some pictures, etc. And then I have them make their own to give to a family member or friend, a classmate, or even their teacher. If they want to give me their Christmas card, they can. All right number three, Home Alone. It's a classic movie that people watch around Christmas time. Students love it and there are a ton of activities and games you can do along with it so just have a look for like Home Alone ESL worksheet or something like that and you can find like a million things that are already made. It's super easy to do with your students. Number four is charades or Pictionary. So charades is acting, Pictionary is drawing. So I get students to act out Christmas-themed vocabulary or for higher-level students, sentences like, I'm wrapping presents, or, Santa is going down the chimney, etc. It depends on the level of students but this is quite a fun game to play in class. The next one. I love to use crosswords in my classes and the easiest way to make your own is discovery.com puzzle maker so just have a search for that: discovery.com puzzle maker and you can put in the exact vocabulary in hints that you would like and then it makes this really nice crossword puzzle for your students to do. Of course, have a google search too. There are a ton that are already online that other teachers have done. The next one: Christmas carols. So I find that students really like singing. I am not musical and I do not like singing. However, students love it. Thankfully there is Youtube. Put up youtube, and do a little karaoke. There are a whole bunch of Christmas carols with lyrics already done for you. And finally, word association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDWlRTYfHA&t=1s). So this is kind of a nice warm-up activity if students already know a good bit of Christmas vocabulary. Put Christmas in the center. It's kind of like a mind map and students will shout out related words: presents, Christmas trees, Santa, reindeer, etc. It's a good way to help students activate prior knowledge. So those are my fun ESL Christmas activities. Tags: ESL Christmas, TEFL Christmas, ESL Christmas games, ESL Christmas activities, TEFL Christmas lesson, ESL Christmas lesson, ESL Christmas lesson plan
ESL Valentine's Day Games and Activities | Fun Valentine...
8K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Valentine's Day is a great, fun-filled day you can bring into the ESL or EFL classroom! It is a great opportunity to help your students learn new vocabulary through games and activities. Watch along for my favourite picks for ESL Valentine's Day games and activities in the classroom! --------------------------- More fun ideas for the TEFL classrom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfK-D2ItUHQ -------------------------- Want to find out more about Valentine's Day ESL? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-valentines-day-activities/ 63 ESL Holiday Games & Activities: https://amzn.to/2QbjWEn https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #teachingenglishwithjackie #valentinesday #eslactivities #eslgames #teachingenglishabroad -------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------- More ideas for Valentine's Day ESL games from @ESL Kids Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s0NpoWxRKs -------------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:12 Make some cards 0:34 Charades 1:00 Picture prompt 1:27 Write a love poem 1:52 Dictogloss 2:26 Conclusion Transcript for ESL Valentine's Day Games and Activities: It's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So if you want to celebrate Valentine's day with your students, here are some of my best ESL Valentine's day activities and games to consider trying out in your classes. Number one: make some cards. This is super fun and most students love getting out their coloured pencils and drawing some pictures, that kind of thing. They can make cards for other students in the class or their teacher, their friends, their parents, whoever they want. I leave it kind of open and don't make it mandatory for them to do anything like that so they can make cards, however many they want and they can give them to whomever they want as well. All right, the next one is charades. This is kind of better for more advanced-level students. Make up a bunch of sentences like getting chocolates, or sentences or phrases (going on a date or awkward first date, things like that). And then the students have to act it out and then the other students in their group have to guess what it is. I'm sure you played charades before but it's great for any holiday-themed ESL lesson. The next one is picture prompt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPDFKzCVj8&t=3s). This is a really nice way if students already know a good amount of vocabulary to help them activate their prior knowledge. So I put up Valentine's day scene and then I just elicit some information. What do you see in the picture? There are people on a date, or he gave her some chocolates. or there are flowers, there are valentine's day cards, etc., that kind of thing. And you can point out the things that you plan to cover in your lesson actually and that's a really nice warm-up activity you can do. The next one is a love poem. A haiku works really well. I explain what a haiku is, show students some examples and then get them to make a love poem. Of course, not everyone's in love with somebody and it's even for kids so I could say, okay make a love poem for your cat or your teacher or your mom or a friend or just whoever. It's just kind of for fun. It doesn't have to be serious and students can make it for whoever they want. The last one is dictogloss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-IkZZqvFM&t=1s). So this is a nice activity for higher-level students. I make up a passage talking about one of my experiences with Valentine's day or someone else's experience too you can use. I put students into pairs and then they each have a pen and paper. I read out the passage at a much faster than normal pace students have to take notes and then they can pair with their partners to try to recreate what they just heard. I repeat the process again: readings, taking notes, and students comparing. And then finally they can compare what they have with the original version. That's it for my ESL Valentine's day activities to try out in your classes. If you like these ideas please hit like, subscribe, leave a comment and then also be sure to check out the full blog post. I'll put the link below. There are a ton more ideas for Valentine's day.
ESL Listening Activities and Games | ELL Listening Ideas for...
31K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Sometimes it can be hard to come up with new and innovative games and activities when it comes to ESL listening. It doesn't have to be! Have a look at these engaging and fun ESL listening activities and games for all levels and ages. Check out this video for plenty of ideas to improve your classroom lesson plan with ESL listening! ---------------- Need more ideas for the ESL Classroom? Fun and engaging ESL activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfK-D2ItUHQ&t=1s ---------------- Want to find out more about teaching English listening skills? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/english-listening-tip/ ESL Listening Activities for Teenagers and Adults: https://amzn.to/3f4d2cc https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #listening #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslactivities #teachingenglish #eslgamesforkids ---------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ---------------- Check out this ESL listening lesson demo from @That Teacher Chris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkVB2KgpbQ ---------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:13 Flyswatter 0:52 Dictogloss 1:29 Dictation 2:18 Does it match? 2:46 Me too! 3:04 Conclusion Transcript for ESL listening games and activities: Hi everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today's topic is ESL listening activities and games. If you want to help your students out with their listening skills, then you'll want to check out these activities. Number one is the flyswatter game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488eabHRk0E&t=1s). If you want to have some fun in your class, definitely check out this game. Get two fly swatters and divide the class into two teams, then write up a bunch of your vocabulary words on the board. And then one student from each team comes up to the front, gets a fly swatter, and then you can, for higher-level students just describe the word. The first person that hits it gets a point. Or, for lower-level students who are just learning how to read, you can say the word and then they can just hit the word. Then erase it, add a new vocabulary word and then two new students come up to play until everyone has had a chance, one or two chances to do it. Number two is dictogloss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-IkZZqvFM). This is for higher-level students. Come up with a passage. I usually write it myself or you can find it in ESL textbooks or online or whatever for the topic or the grammar or the vocabulary that I want to hit. Then put students into pairs. They have a pen and paper and I read it out at a faster than normal pace. The students have to take notes and then they can compare with their partners to try to recreate what they heard. Do it again, read it out again and then students do the same. Finally, they can compare what they have with the original one. Number three is dictation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnsWh77tMM). Okay, I know this is kind of old school and maybe you're feeling like, oh what's going on here? This isn't the communicative approach. Yeah dictation still has some value if you want to help students improve their listening skills and you can actually see in black and white, do students understand these words or can they hear these words or can they spell them? Can they do punctuation? There are very few activities that will put it on paper as black and white as this. So come up with some sentences and then just say them slowly to your students. They can dictate them and then to level up the difficulty, I will say questions and then I get them to answer them. Or I'll say statements and then I get them to make the questions. All right, the next one, does it match? I'll write a bunch of words on the board or a sentence. I'll probably put words. This is more of a beginner game. So I'll put like a cat, cow, com, maybe a whole bunch of c words in a row. And i'll say okay, number one cat, does it match? Yes. Number two, calm. Oh, I don't think it matches. That is actually a cow. So you can do that kind of thing with your students. The last one is me too. So I get students to come up with true statements about themselves and they have to say them out loud. For example, I like ice cream. Students have to listen and if they also like ice cream they say, me too and put up their hands. It's very simple but kind of a nice way for everyone to be active in your class. All right, if you like these ESL listening activities, be sure to give this video a like, subscribe, leave a comment and also be sure to check out the full blog post with even more ideas for teaching listening.
ESL Weather Activities and Games | Fun Ideas for ESL Weather...
15K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Not everybody likes to talk about the weather. But Canadians LOVE to talk about it! The weather is a common topic in many ESL/EFL textbooks. That's why you'll need these fun ESL weather activities and games for your classes. Check out this video for games and activities about the weather. It'll help with making your weather lesson plan fun and exciting. Weather is a common topic in most ESL/EFL textbooks. Watch the video to find out how to spice it up! ------------------ Here's one of my favourite activities for teaching weather vocab (flyswatter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488eabHRk0E ------------------ Want to find out more about teaching weather vocabulary to English learners? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-weather-activities/ 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #eslactivities #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslgames #weather #teachingenglishabroad ---------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ----------------- ESL weather games for young learners from @Mooncake English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMvJBscHhJM&t=1s ----------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:14 Concentration 1:06 Password 1:50 Weather forecast 2:20 Draw the idiom 2:48 A-Z game 3:22 Conclusion Transcript for ESL weather games and activities: Hi, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today's topic is ESL weather games and activities. I'm gonna share my top ESL games with you when you're talking about the weather with your students. Number one is concentration. This is a great game for helping beginner students learn new vocabulary. So make up a bunch of cards. I usually put a picture of like cloudy and then I'll write cloudy on another card and then maybe rainy- rainy, thunder-thunder, lightning- lightning, whatever. Actually, I don't know, can you do a picture of thunder? It's difficult. Anyway, think about it. So put the corresponding pictures and then words. Make up enough sets for each group of four students in your class and usually around 16 cards or eight sets is a good number. And then students in groups of four mix them up and place them face down on their desks. The first student will take two cards, and show them to everybody. If they match, they keep them. If they don't match, they put them back in the same spot. Don't mix them up because it's a memory game. The next student goes, takes two cards, etc. and then continues on until all the cards are gone. The next one is password. So this is a good game for a smaller class. Divide the class into two teams and then you can play maybe like two or three rounds. So the first team, in the first round will send one captain to the front of the class. They sit on a chair, you stand behind them and hold flashcards or you can write words on a piece of paper like in a notebook or something and then their team has to give them hints and they have to say the word. I usually will do maybe like one-minute rounds just to keep things moving along quickly and they try to get as many points as possible in each round. The next one: the weather forecast. So this is kind of a fun group activity. I put students into groups and I show them, first of all, some weather forecast videos on YouTube. And then I put them into groups and get them to make their own weather forecasts. I generally will try to make it so there are four groups and I'll say you're winter, spring, summer, and fall and they each need to come up with a weather forecast for that season and try to make it as interesting as possible. All right, the next one is to draw the idiom. There are a ton of weather idioms. Just look on the internet, Google weather idiom and you'll see like literally hundreds of them. I get students to choose one and then they have to draw the idiom, make up some example sentences, talk about what it actually means, etc. This is a way to make idioms super memorable. Trust me, your students will never forget those weather idioms ever again. And the last one is A-Z (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8UuOQEuWM). This is a nice ESL activity if you think that students have already studied this topic numerous times and you want to help them activate their prior knowledge. I would give them the topic of weather and then put them in groups of two. They have to write a, b, c, d. A to z on a piece of paper and then i will say, okay you have one minute to write down as many words as possible that begin with each letter. They can only choose one per letter so maybe like cloudy, hot, sunny, things like that, rainy, etc. At the end of one minute, the team with the most words is the winner. Be sure to check out the full blog post that's listed below for even more ESL weather activities.
ESL First day Activities and Games for Children and Adults |...
49K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
The first day classroom jitters can be intimidating and are certainly a real thing! There are ways to help though, and I'm here to give you some ideas for ESL first-day activities and games! Here are some games and activities for your first day back in the classroom. Have some fun with these icebreaker activities for language learners! ------------------ Even more ideas for the first ESL lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTHvTPX5R8&t=1s ----------------- Want to find out more about activities and games for the first day of class? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-activities-for-first-day/ 39 ESL Icebreakers: https://amzn.to/3fhiZD4 https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #icebreaker #teachingenglishwithjackie #icebreakers #teachingenglish #eslgames ------------ Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ------------- Even more ideas for the first day from @Etacude English Teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8uyfzv1g-c --------------- Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:20 Ball toss 0:42 Find someone who bingo 1:16 Toilet paper icebreaker 1:59 The name game 2:26 Introduction survey 3:11 Conclusion Transcript for TEFL activities for the first day of class: Hey everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL first-day activities. So you all know the first day of any class that you're teaching can be quite stressful. You don't know the students, and the students don't know you but here are some of my best ideas to kind of overcome that and to help break the ice. The first one is ball toss. This is great for a smaller class so get a beach ball and then in permanent marker, write a whole bunch of kind of get-to-know-you questions on the ball. Then you toss the ball from student to student and when they catch the ball, wherever their right thumb is, that's the question that they have to answer. Super simple but it's a fun game to play. The next one is find someone who bingo. So this is just like kind of a regular bingo thing but students fill in their cards with things that they might ask their classmates to get to know them. Like, who has a pet, who's 21 years old, who grew up in Vancouver, etc. So you can have a list of possible choices and students can fill it out. Or you can get students, advanced-level students, to make up their own cards. Then they circulate around the class, talking to their classmates and trying to get one line or the whole grid or however you want to play it. The next one is the toilet paper game. So bring in a roll of toilet paper or some candies, wrapped candies are also fine. And then tell students they can take a certain number. They can take, I usually say between four and six pieces of toilet paper and then I put students into small groups of three or four and they have to say one fact about themselves to their group. And then they throw away one piece of toilet paper, or they can eat one of their candies or save it for later if they don't want it then. Of course, put it in their backpack or whatever. Then the people listening, one person can ask a follow-up question based on what they heard and then they also can get rid of one of their candies or pieces of toilet paper. The next one is the name game. So this is a really simple one for absolute beginners. it's like a memory circle game. So the first person says, my name is Jackie and I like cats. The second person says, my name is Ted and I like pizza. Her name is Jackie and she likes cats. Continue on and usually, I'll do it so the teacher goes last so it's a bit challenging. So pay attention! The last one is an introduction survey. This is really good for more advanced level students and this is often what I did in my university classes in South Korea. I make up a survey with a bunch of common questions that I think some students but not all the students will say yes to. So for example, has a brother, who is in his or her second year, grew up in a certain neighbourhood, has gone skydiving, etc. Students have to circulate around the class, finding people who will answer yes to each question once they find that person they ask a follow-up question and then they write the name of the person and then a little bit about the follow-up. For example, do you have a brother? Yes, I do. So they could write Jackie. Then their follow-up question might be, What's your brother's name? His name is Keith. They could write Keith in the blank. So that's it for my ESL first-day activities.
TEFL Speaking Board Game for Students: ESL Board Games | Tea...
60K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
I’ve used board games for English learners many times as a review activity in the class before a midterm or final exam. It’s quite easy to make a question to cover just about everything you’d possibly include on a test in a conversation class, or general English class. Students love them, and they’re an excellent way to recap a class or unit. Try out ESL board games before a midterm or final exam! ------------ • Check out these fun, engaging, and student-centred ESL games and activities : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0Q8kr18oQKbg2gr0CIt-ibFPl8f4oCL • Playing Board Games to Practice English by: @Mara Cares https://youtu.be/y5L8CYa-j_Y ----------- Even more advice and ideas for using board games in TEFL classes: Full blog post: https://eslspeaking.org/esl-board-games/ Want to find more low or No Prep ESL activities, including Board Games? Check out: https://amzn.to/30ZLSzS ------------ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #20questions #eslgames Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:15 One super-tip 0:33 It's easy to make your own board games 1:39 All about dice 2:16 What about actual board games? 2:53 Conclusion Transcript for ESL board games: Hi, this is Jackie from esleaking.org. So today I'm going to talk about using board games in ESL classes. First of all, before we get any further one super tip that I have for you is to check the teacher's resource book that goes along with the textbook that the students are using. You can often find some great board games in there so just all you have to do is photocopy and bring them to class and then you'll have a great time with your students and it's really that simple. However, not to worry if you don't have a teacher's resource book,. You can make your own board games super easily. Some topics and grammar points lend themselves better to board games than others Some things that I like to use them for are should and shouldn't, for giving advice, the simple past, likes and dislikes, as well as frequency adverbs like always sometimes etc. The way I make my own board games is I have a template in google drive and then on that board, I have squares like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and it goes down to about 30 and the students just have to follow the numbers in a line. And then I have some special squares like trade places with the person on your left, go back five, free take a rest, things like that. But otherwise, the rest of the squares will have, for example, if I'm doing problem and advice they would have a question, they'd have like a problem like I can't sleep at night and then the student would land there with their token and then they would have to give some advice to that person. You shouldn't drink coffee before bed. And then the other spaces would be filled with different questions. The way that you can roll dice for board games, actually, I hate using actual dice because it's super loud and I find the dice roll all over the classroom. It kind of just gets too crazy so there are a few different methods for this. I like to use two coins, so for example, heads and heads equal four, heads plus tails equals two, and then tails plus tails equals one, something like that. Or, you can get a number grid and students close their eyes and then move a pen around and whatever their pen touches, that's the number for like three or five, etc. That's how you make your own board games. If you want to use some board or card games just for kind of a fun party day in your class, some of the easier ones I recommend are Scrabble, Uno, Monopoly, Taboo, Apples to Apples. However, I've also taught some bigger classes of very advanced students and in this case, I just brought my regular board games. For example King of Tokyo, Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico, or Seven Wonders. Whatever I just happened to have at home I would bring it in and I would teach the students and they actually loved it. It was a really fun class and some of them even bought the board games for themselves to teach their friends because they really enjoyed playing them so much. Alright, so those are all my tips and tricks for using board games with your ESL students. If you like this video please hit like, subscribe, and leave a comment below about your favorite board game that you like to use in your english classes. If you want some more ideas for teaching English, be sure to check out my book 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Teenagers and Adults. You can find it easily on Amazon or I'll put the link down below for you. Alright, until next time, bye everybody Tags: esl board game, esl board games, speaking board games, TEFL Speaking, Board Game for Students, esl for teens,
Jigsaw Activities and Games on the Let's Talk TEFL Podca...
12K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Jackie and Jennifer talk about everything ESL Jigsaw Activities and Games, also known as Information Gap activities. Find out what a jigsaw activity is and why you might want to consider using them in class. Plus, some tips and tricks for everything information gap ESL! Want to know more about jigsaw activities? Want to check out some of the best options for information gap ideas to use in class? Have a look here: https://www.eslactivity.org/information-gap-activities/ ------- Subscribe to the podcast "Let's Talk TEFL" here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1774520/9007639 Task-Based teaching book: 39 Task-Based Teaching and Learning Activities Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/ Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/ Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie #esl #teachingtips #teachingenglishwithjackie ------------------------------------------------------- More ESL Speaking resources: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp: 0:00 Introduction 0:03 LET'S TALK TEFL WITH JACKIE AND JENNIFER 0:25 JIGSAW (COOPERATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES) AND INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES 0:33 WHAT ARE JIGSAW ACTIVITIES? 0:57 HOW TO PLAY THIS ACITIVTY 1:16 EASY MODE 1:55 HOW TO MAKE JIGSAW MORE DIFFICULT 3:04 HOW JACKIE TEACHES JIGSAW 3:17 DIRECTIONS OR PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE 3:20 BEHIND, NEXT TO OR ACROSS FROM 4:15 WHY JIGSAW AND INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES ARE SO GREAT 7:27 COMMUNICATION FOCUSED 10:53 HOW TO IMPLEMENT INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES? 14:01 CAN WE USE JIGSAW AND INFO GAP ACTIVITIES FOR ALL STUDENT LEVELS? Tags: teaching ESL, teaching English, English for students, English for college, teaching college, teaching university, teaching tips, ESL tips, English Teacher, esl podcast, podcast, TEFL, how to teach, how to speak English, how to teach English, Teaching English Speakers, Teaching English Speaking, Learning to speak English, Lesson plans, English Games, Jigsaw Activity, Jigsaw Information Gap, Information Gap Activity, Jigsaw Information Gap Activity, Teaching English College, College Age English
How to Teach ESL Kids New Words (Kindergarten, Young Learner...
21K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Teaching English vocabulary to kids is traditionally quite boring for the students as well as the teacher. This video is the perfect solution to mix things up a little bit in your ESL or EFL classes when teaching vocabulary. So keep watching for activities and games for teaching kids new words. ----------- • ESL review activity game for kids: Flip Chart : https://youtu.be/JD6Qa1Gbopg • How to Teach English to Children - 6 ESSENTIAL TIPS by: @Norma's Teaching https://youtu.be/jZKrt0r37c0 ------------ Full blog post: https://eslspeaking.org/vocabulary-games-for-esl-students/ Want to find 30+ ESL Vocabulary games for kids? Check out: https://amzn.to/30ZLSzS ------------- https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #boardgames #eslgames Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:20 Picture or object 1:05 Lots of practice 1:15 Flashcards 1:39 Concentration 2:10 Charades 2:28 Review lots 3:07 Vocabulary tests 3:54 Conclusion Transcript: Hi, this is Jackie from esleaking.org. Today, I'm going to talk about how to teach ESL children new words, so basically teaching English vocabulary to people who are ESL or EFL learners. There are a few different methods. First of all, with kids, I like to have a picture or the real object if possible and then I say the word, I spell the word, I get them to look at the picture, look at the word, repeat after me. You can also do a translation into the original language but that is a little bit fraught with some complications because there are sometimes multiple translations and I don't necessarily want my students to just always think automatically of translating everything from English into their first language. It's often better if you're teaching students like classroom objects, pen, pencil, paper to actually have pen, pencil, paper, so they're kind of learning English through English without having to translate into Korean or Mandarin or whatever language they speak. The next thing once you teach them the basic words and the spelling and they've said them a few times, you need to do some practice. So there are a ton of ways you can get students to practice. I love using flashcards. There are a ton of games and activities you can use with flashcards as simple as showing the flashcard and the student says the word or they make a sentence with that word. Sometimes I like to hide them around the classroom and I say go find the ball and then they have to get the ball and hold it up and say ball or I touch the object and then they have to pick up the card and then say the word. Yeah, so there are a lot of different things you can do with that. The next one I like to do is concentration. So this is a really fun game that kids love so I put the spelling of the word ball: b-a-l-l and then a picture of the ball on the other card and I make up about eight sets, so 16 cards total. I shuffle the cards, I place them face down on the desk in kind of an organized fashion and then the first student has to take two cards. If it's a match, ball and ball they keep it if it's not a match they put it back in the same spot and then the next student goes. So it basically becomes a memory game. The next one is charades. So this is perfect if you're talking about like say verbs, especially like playing soccer, eating pizza, doing homework, things like that. So getting students to act it out and then the other students in the class have to guess what they're doing. All right, my next tip is to review. So it takes about 20 or 30, 50, 100 times for people to actually know a word in a second language so they have to be exposed to it that many times before it becomes just automatic in their brain such that they're never going to forget. You can really help your students out with this process by reviewing frequently in class. I love to start each new class with a review of what I taught in the previous class. I love to have monthly review sessions. I review before the midterm exam, and before the final exam. One thing you can try doing, depending on where you're teaching is a vocabulary test so I mean I sometimes love it and sometimes don't love it, depending on the situation. However, nothing actually gets people to remember words as much as a test will. I find if you give students a vocabulary list of say 20 or 30 words and say there is going to be a test in the next class, you have to memorize these words and how to spell them. Then they come to class and I find that most students actually will have remembered those words. All right, if you like these tips for how to teach children new words in a second language, please check out my book 39 ESL Vocabulary Activities for Kids. You can find it easily on Amazon. If you like this video, please hit like, subscribe, and tell me in the comments below your favourite activity for teaching children new words.
Six Fun and engaging ESL/EFL Games to Play in Class for All ...
105K views · Nov 23, 2022 eslactivity.org
Learn how to have interesting, engaging ESL/EFL lessons for kids, teenagers or adults with these games and activities. Jackie and Jennifer talk fun TEFL games to play in class, so have a listen-in and find out some new ideas for ESL games and activities to make your English classes awesome! ------ • ESL Icebreaker Activity Two Truths and a Lie: https://youtu.be/UP0RAItjKQc • 3MinuteELT: Top Tips for Incorporating Games in the ESL Classroom : https://youtu.be/jWr6p_s2Gfs ------- Subscribe to the podcast "Let's Talk TEFL" here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1774520/episodes/9513928 And don't forget to read about more Fun games to play in class here: https://eslspeaking.org/games-to-play-in-class/ Want to know more ESL activities to play in the classroom? Check out some of the best games in our book here: https://amzn.to/3TPVfcv Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/ Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie #esl #classroomtips #teachingenglishwithjackie ------------------------------------------------------- More ESL Speaking resources: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp for Fun ESL Games to play in class: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 FUN GAMES TO PLAY IN CLASS 0:34 POWERPOINT GAMES 2:56 BINGO 5:11 DANCE OF THE OSTRICHES 7:03 20 QUESTIONS 9:41 FLYSWATTER GAMES 12:25 PICTIONARY AND CHARADES 15:30 Outro Tags: Fun and engaging ESL/EFL Games, Let's talk TEFL Podcast, games to play while in class, Games to Play in Class for All Ages, classroom play, engaging ESL lessons, engaging EFL lessons, Games to Play in Class, Games to Play, Classroom games, classroom activity, classroom games, classroom activities,