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Translation Race This amusing ESL/EFL translation game can be used for almost any teaching point and will certainly motivate your students. This game also helps every student in the class understand new vocabulary and sentence structure. It's a must for every teacher's game book.

This is an activity for the more advanced ESL student; high-intermediate to advanced. It is a linguistic activity which requires absolutely no materials (other than a chalkboard).

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.

This is a science game on butterfly life cycle followed by educational games. For beginners like my brother an explanation and translation was needed. It does not only teach vocab but also develops general knowledge.

This game teaches the action verbs with simple present and present continuous.I've done this with our neighbor , he is 9 and enjoyed playing it, but he asked the translation of some words.

While surching this site I found a lot of good material about social networking which can be presented to advanced level learners. I showed some of the animations to my mother and sister and then translated them as they don't have advanced level of English. They liked the animations and videos, the way they presented the concept.

If you read and listen to one article every day, your reading and listening skills can be better fast. You will learn very fast and after some time you will not have to translate into your own language. You will simply understand. Why?

I used this video/audio file to teach my 9 years old niece and her 8 years old friend English prepositions of places. The interesting thing was that I didn't tell them that they were going to learn prepositions . I just played the video clip and went away letting them watch and enjoy it. After watching the video clip several times, I noticed that they were learning prepositions by discussing the video clip and translating prepositions into Armenian language. Hence, I found this video clip to be very useful for teaching prepositions to children in an entertaining way.

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.