This game is designed for beginners as they can learn the names of animals also practice spelling.I piloted this game with my students after passing the names of animals. The effect was great.
I hope this game can help to learn time as many learners have difficulties with that.The game is designed so that learners can see time then read and choose the correct answer. I tried this game with my brother he is beginner. The visuals helped him to learn time faster and easier than he expected.
This game focuses on the use of definite and indefinite articles. It is designed for low lintermediate level learners who have problems with using correct articles. It makes learners to orientate as rapidly as possible not to become the prey of the hungry wolf. I've recommended this game to my sister who is an intermediate level learner and she found it rather challenging and useful.
This game is designed for beginner level learners. Its goal is to practice English numbers (1-10). I especially recommend this game because it also makes chilren count and after playing it once they should be able to count from one to ten. It also provides the pronunciation of each number. So, children would also learn how to pronounce English numbers. I've tried this game with my 6 year-old cousin, and after playing it several times he was able to pronounce Enlgish numbers.
This is a very interesting game which enhances learners vocabulary concerning the furniture and other house decorations. This is designed for law intermediate level students and it helps learners to use the vocabulary in context. My sister played this game during several hours and she learnt a lot of new words.
This activity is designed for elementary student. It works good with adults and children. The aim of the activity is to find the second part of the word. I have tried it with an elementary level adult and she found it very useful for building new vocabulary
This is a great activity designed for children to listen to a story about firefighters and then do an interactive activity by learning new vocabulary connected with clothes. I have tried this activity with children who really enjoyed it and learnt new words connected wit clothes. Besides, they have learnt a song about firefighters.
This activity is designed for beginners and it helps to practice and memorize antonyms. The game has different levels so there is a good opportunity for students to learn new words and their antonyms. I have tried it with 2 children and they enjoyed it and learnt many new words.
Knowing synonyms is important for L2 language learners in order not to repeat the same words in writing or in speaking. Although it is designed for the elementary level, I advise this activity for intermediate level because I experimented with children in elementary level I saw that the words are a little bit more sophisticated.
This game is designed for high intermediate EFL student. Through this game, EFL learners can revise their knowledge of job descriptions. This game can be played by one player or two players. Accordingly, it will also promote collaboration between learners.
An EFL intermediate learner had a chance to choose one of the provided choices and decide whether it corresponds to the job description provided in the game or not and accordingly, to gain particular score or not. I tried it with my brother's wife (24 year-old) and she in some cases guessed the write answer. She had some difficulties because of some words used in job descriptions. Though, she tried to understand the word in context and guess the meaning. I would suggest my peers to use this educational game because it promotes L2 learners language skills in terms of enhancing their vocabulary.
This game is designed for low intermediate EFL learners. The game is very interesting one, becuase the player is motivated to guess the hidden animal until it appears in full picture (there are three choices for each hidden animal and when the player chooses one of them, the computer either makes green or red line in the word and also pronounces that word). So, this game can also help learners gain right pronunciation skills. I used this game with my neighbour (11-year-old boy) and he was interested in guessing the pictures and tried to pronounce the word after the computer prounced them. I would suggest ESL teachers to use it because it enhanced my neighbour's vocabulary and improves his pronunciation. skills.
The game is designed in a way that high intermediate EFL students can add in it whatever it requires to complete. Through this game, EFL learners become inspired and excited. At the end of the story the reader can write his/her own analogue and change the story. Accordingly, it will also promote creativity and learners writing skill. I tried it out with my student and I got a great result.
This is a huge site with different interesting sub sites. The certain activity that I've explored is designed especially for Business English classes. There are useful worksheets that are printable and can be very effective both to learn new specific vocabulary and to practice already learnt words.
Create a Room
This game is designed to enhance or/and reinforce beginners' vocabulary. The learnes are supposed to decorate the different rooms.The game is attractive for kids since it is presented in colorful pictures and because the children are supposed to create and arrange the rooms up to their own desire.
Hang mouse is an excitement game for elementary level players; it is very fruitful for vocabulary enhancement. I like the way it is designed and animated, there are also some sound effects thus the game is attractive and dynamic.
the activity is pretty challenging. It fits intermediate and higher level students. One can choose the topic, there is a range of it, then go on guessing a word. usually there are 7 guess chances which did motivated the stduent. He really enjoyed the activity, however I think students will enjoy even more if they have already some knowledge of the topic, then it gets really interesting.
This site provides free materials for kids. There are printable worksheets with their answer sheets for different levels in different topics. There are also games, study tools, quizzes, tutorials, checking spelling sheets and online activites, etc. Moreover, it provides with EBooks for different levels from the beginner to the advanced. The site has also a book store where popular and well designed books for different levels are recomended.
These materials are from BBC Learning English site. All of them are downloadable and each audio & video material have its pdf file (with transcript and vocabulary). These audios/videos are good for developing students' listening and reading skills, increasing students' vocabulary, and also speaking skills. It depends on the purpose of using this material. For example I used the first one (I haven't used the others yet) "Are men the weaker sex" with my intermediate students. While listening they underlined all the unknown words they had come up with, then we discussed the words together (I explained them in a target language). After, the discussion, I asked them not to look at the transcript and listened to the audio again. At the end of the audio they told me what the audio was about and in this way I could make them speak.