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An ESL Fun Game for Teachers & Students - Practice & Play one should guess and spell the missing word to escape being hanged..

This is a very good game for ESL begginers to practice their knowledge. This game also allows them to make direct connections between the names of fruits and numbers. I tried it with 8 students from my EEC Prep2 course and it worked very good. At first they /ss/ failed to win the fruitmaster /computer/ but after playing two or more times, they were able to win. Through this game, Ss uncounciously learn the names of fruits!!!! I would advise everybody to pilot this game with beginner students.

This is a crossword puzzle which helps students practice months of the year, ordinal numbers, etc. I tried crossword puzzles in my previous teachings and it is really interesting especially for the 11-12 year old students.

These fleshcards can help an ESL/EFL teachers to teach the name of animals with the help of interesting fleshcards. I am going to use them during my today's class with Prep 2A children at the ages of 5-7.

These are pretty well flashcards in terms of teaching the names of animals. While using these flashcards, I reached my goal, i.e. I was able to teach my kids the names of animals and they were very interested.

A very useful and productive link for teaching ESL begginers. It aims to develop the learners' listening, reading skills as well as practice the target words.

This is a very good source for making the workisheets of your need. The only thing that you should do is to choose a theme and a new random list. I used this source with my Prep 2A kids for teaching them numbers and animals, and the worksheets were very useful as the kids liked them very much.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Kids help Bear cook breakfast. Great activity to reinforce this target topic with intermediate or advanced young EFL/ESL learners

Nice game that teaches children to food vocabulary (pre-intermediate level).

Very interesting and interactive!

This game is also excellent for classroom teaching. Teachers can engage students in a classroom vocabulary or grammar review. It is suitable for intermediate and advanced esl learners. It can be used to energize a dull class, to review work that was done or simply as a reward for good classroom work.

This game will help studets to practice the adjectives which describe people, places and things!