These exercises are good for developing students' listening, reading, and writing skills. In addition to these skills, it also develops students' vocabulary. While listening and watching the songs or a video poem, the students will have opportunity to write down the missing words in a given space and later on check the answers.
I used this type of exercises with my students and to tell the truth they liked them very much. This type of exercises can be used at the end of the lesson or in the middle of it, when teacher notice some boredom during the lesson. They play as a good refresh.
After listening the song, the teacher may discuss it with students (as I did) or even translate. There are also some words at the end of each song and students may learn them as well.
This is the famous "snakes and ladders" game that could be played alone or with 2 players. When one answers correctly, they get to roll the dice. This game is best for 7 to 9 year olds. At the end of the game, one can check all the correct answers.
The purpose of this activity is to know when to use past simple and past continuous, within one sentence. It consists of 10 sentences and gives you the grade at the end with the corrections and a short explanation. Best for ages 11 and up.
This is a great prefix & suffix game for kids. Learn how to add letters to the beginning or end of a word to modify its meaning. This excellent practice exercise activity will help students understand how prefixes and suffixes are used in the English language while they enjoy the fun challenges on offer.
This is a good game for practicing comparatives. Students will see the adjectives and write the comparatives. They will see their score at the end. I have tried this game with my intermediate level students. They liked it but they weren't able to type so quickly. When they tried it for the second time they got used to its speed.
This is a very popular fairy tale translated in many languages of the world. So the children will be familiar with the plot and even if they don't know some words they can guess the meaning. Here they have listening with script, which will help them to develop their listening and reading skills. I played this fairy tale for my little son . He watched it with pleasure and said that the ending is different from other red hat fairy tales.
I suggest using this link to have students of intermediate level get knowledge of ancient civilizations of Ancient Greek, Indus, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Romans, and so on. Students will learn about their Lands, Discovery, Way of Life, Home Life, The Gods and Heroes,Trade and Travel, Art and Writing, Technology and Jobs, Food and Farming, Games and Toys, The End of those Civilizations, What They Did For Us.
Go and explore timelines.
An intermediate game. One should find the objects in different horror rooms. The hint is the first letter. For ex. "I spy with my little eye something beginning with C... in the conservatory". The game is funny, interactive, and it enriches one's vocabulary. By aunt is an English teacher. She liked it and asked me the link for her students.
To be honest at first i was a little bit afraid from the sound :D :D :d later i got used to it :D :D :D i liked the game :d i played it :D though i did not understand what would happen in the end :D
1. Advanced English listening skills
2. Advanced English conversation skills
3. Using English slang and humor
4. Advanced English phrasal verbs and their usage
5. Using complex sentences with multiple clauses
6. Advanced English idioms and vocabulary
7. English for daily life, social life and business
8. Advanced verb tenses & usage
At the end of each audio, there is a vocabulary list with explanations in front and also some expressions that are utilized in the the lesson.
I used these dialogs with my brother, who wanted to improve his English. Generally speaking he wanted to listened to native speakers speech and daily conversations. During the listening I didn't show the transcript of the dialogs in order to check whether he understood the meaning. To tell the truth there were some unknown words and expressions even for me. He could get the main meaning of the dialogs, however there were words and expressions that were quite difficult for him to understand. So, to solve the problem I used the vocabulary list written below.
Karaoke: easy listening story for elementary level students; the story or the 'song' with the words of the same story is played after which students sing the 'song' repeating the reader, in the end they try to sing alone with words provided like karaoke. I piloted the activity with my 9 year-old neighbour. The kid was really engaged in that the kid was simply listening to the song and enjoying it. I suggest playing the same song over sevearal days so that learner would automatically sing with the song.
I would like to share my practice with you. While doing this activity with my neighbor's son who is 9 years old boy, he did the very first part enthusiastically and continued the activity up to the end with the same stage. What i liked in this activity is that if a learner's listening comprehension is not so well developed,there are some sub-sentences provided below by which they can understand the story.
Here you can find reading comprehension worksheets for 2nd Grade students in pdf formats. They are funny and easy to work with. If your student doesn't like to read long texts, as mine, then they are exactly what you need. At the end of every text, there are questions to check your student's reading comprehension. It worked pretty well with my student.
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 game that may be appropriate for all levels starting from low-intermediate. This game suggests some letters and the player should make as many words with these letters as possible. There is a time limit, and the words that are not correctly spelled are not recognized. At the end all the possible words are suggested.
I tried that myself and it was a real fun, the best thing for this game is to think FAST!
The students see many objects and are given a list of names which they should match with their pictures. The names of the objects have more than one meaning. Students are then given sentences where they are going to use the words in other meanings. They can use either logic or dictionary to find different meanings for these names which will fit in the sentences. This activity will work effectively both in the classroom and outside the classroom. It can also be assigned for individual and group work.
My students were really interested in the activity. They asked each other, worked collaboratively, also used dictionary and sometimes asked for my help. The output was productive as in the end students remembered all the words.
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.