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This colorful and interesting site is a suitable place for kids of pre-school and also bigger kids to implement their creativity in making stories. Games of this site are focused on words. Relevant pictures along with their pronunciation are served in an easy and fun way which enhances the learning process. I tried this site with my 5 years old daughter and she asked me to play its games over and over. Also she made a story (by my little manipulation) and she felt the joy of being a creative story maker.

The game gives an intermediate ESL learner an opportunity to revise his/her knowledge about past tense. This game provides some 'context' where the student can practice his/her knowledge. There is also a level of difficulty in this game i.e. a player can choose from the provided three pts and find the level corresponding to his/her level of language competency. I piloted it with one of my students and he chose the easiest pt and succeeded. After he tried the medium pt and lost 4 points for incorrect choice of form. He tried to do the most difficult one but he did not understand some words in context and couldn't gain needed scores. I would advise EFL teachers to use this game because it enhanced, engaged and motivated my student in language learning.

A very interesting game to practice Past Simple, both irregular and regular verbs.

Do you use idioms in your speech? I don't because I'm not a native speaker of English and not so sure about the meanings of many idioms. This task may help none native learners to learn idioms and use them in proper situations.

This is a nice game for elementary level students through which they can learn the names of animals! The best thing about this game is that it has four sections: 1-shows the animal and pronounces the name along wit providing the written variant 2- it checks spelling VS. pronunciation 3-it checks pronunciation VS. picture 4- it checks spelling VS. picture. I tried it with elementary level students (two) and it was quite effective!!!!

Thanks Gayane for this game. I tried this game with my cousin who is 5 years old and only knows 10 letters of the English alphabet. We played this game together and he pretty liked it. He only knew the name of some of the animals but he doesnt recognise the written form of letters. therfore, I skipped the writing parts. I perticularly liked the part which he should listen to the names and then point me the animal to put the name under it. By the way, I used this game just to entertain him not to teach him. It think this approach helped him to just enjoy it as a game not a lesson. Thanks again.

This site is a wonderful source for those teachers who need flashcards about food. Besides the animations it also has the pronunciation of the names. Besides, if there is not a chance to make use of this flashcards online, a link is provided for printable flashcards. MAKE USE OF IT!!!

This is a matching and filling exercise which will help beginner level learners to learn and practice simple dialogues, e.g., "Hello, I'm Tom" "Hi, I'm Tim". The learners will have opportunity to match the questions and make dialogues.

This is a very nice activity for ESL beginners to practice their knowledge.It gives multiple choice questions and also allows the learner to make direct connections between the definitions and real life relatives. I tried it out with my niece who heard most of the answers for the first time. Through this game she remembered most of the new words as they were given in a simple and clear way. I would advise everybody to pilot this game with beginner students.

This site is a collection of games, songs and ideas for use by teachers of languages to children. This site gives you the techniques and confidence to teach any language and get your kids finishing a lesson with a big smile saying "Yeah, that was fun! I want to do more!". there are also video materials that may help or give some ideas to teachers how to make the lesson funny and interesting:)

Dear all, here is a link where I found a collection of strange signs. You may enjoy sharing it with your students or colleagues. Actually it is not an activity but it is an excellent raw material for creating a good activity. For example you may ask your students to decide what is wrong in these signs and getting students to correct them. Since the list is very funny and authentic I think it is very motivating for discussing it too so this may become a very good topic for the classroom discussion. Anyway I think you may create an excellent activity for the development of your students' speaking skills.

Hangman is an excitement game, plus it is very fruitful for the vocabulary enhancement. The level of the game is high intermediate. Player is supposed to guess the word by clicking on the letters. For some help the player has definition button and the button with the hint. Player has 6 tries to guess the word. I find the game very fascinating and useful.

I tried this video back in NY while teaching to ESL adult students. They were intermediate students, though with good english knowledge. I was supposed to teach idioms and this video helped me to first remove myself from being the center of attention and second to help students learn the idioms more easily, as the visualizations readily stick in their mind. The students very much liked the video and its humor refreshed the class atmosphere. However, I suggest to include some post-task exercises both written and spoken to reinforce them. There are other categories such as eye idioms as well which can be used to teach idioms in a fun way.

This is a very interesting game which may help practice prepositions. I tried it with my students and they really enjoyed it.

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.

It is an interactive online activity for kids. These instructions game for kids will help students understand the importance of writing clear, concise instructions for a range of interesting tasks. Choose from a list of different activities such as making a sandwich, putting up a tent and making a robot. Write step by step instructions in English for how it should be performed from the perspective of someone who has never done it before.

This instructions game for kids will help students understand the importance of writing instructions for a range of interesting tasks. The learners should choose from a list of different activities such as making a sandwich, putting up a tent and making a robot.

Listen and follow. Repeated listening. 

This interactive story can be used with elementary level students for developing reading. Students can read then listen to a an expert of English articulating the same thing. And this will help them to articulate the word correctly. I tries this with my sister. She liked the activity and most of all its interactivness.

Might work well with kids learning to read in English. 

This is an interactive poetry game. It helps students to read, listen poetry verses and answer questions learning about important English terms as metaphor, alliteration,ellipsis.

This is a great punctuation game. It helps students to practice English language punctuation such as full stop, comma, question mark, inverted commas in an interactive way.

cool game!