A very good and engaging tool to use in the classroom and have a follow up discussion. Everybody loves spekaing about their wishes, this way they will watch a video, have some vocabulary on the topic and then express their wishes. I think this way the students will be very engaged in the discussion and improve both their listening and speaking skills. This will best work with adults or young adults, intermediate level. I haven't used it yet in my classes, but I will for sure:)
This listening/speaking activity will teach students about prepositions of place and movement. It may also serve to teach imperatives. This activity will work best with pre-intermediate level of students.
This activity will develop students' creativity and will enrich their vocabulary through writing a letter and choosing different words from the given options. Besides, this activity will teach how to write a letter to someone because it also provides important tips for writing a letter.
This activity can be played either with teenagers or even kids. It is engaging and brings active interaction into the classroom. All the students are involved in the activity at the same time. It is also exciting for the teacher as he has to create questions during the activity aside from those prepared. Finally it is competition among the student which works perfect most of the times. Enjoy.
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 found this handout useful because the flashcards that I have posted right below this handout will be helpful for identifying the animals' names. Moreover, kids can not only look at the flashcards but also read the spelling of each word. Besides, there will also be some animals that will be unknown even for the teacher (it happened to me very often) and for not wasting the time to look up in the dictionary, teachers can use this handout in case of necessity.
The game will help the learners to remember the locations in the world more easily. The more they play the faster they can drag each country map to the correct location in the Earth. My neighbour' s 14 and 15 year-old children found the game quite entertaining and wanted to try it again to do it faster.
This is a fun game which will help students to learn about the history of the Olympic games and improve their sports vocabulary. They will also check their knowledge about the UK. My intermediate level students played and enjoyed it very much. They learnt new words and got information about the history of the Olympics.
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.
Students will see three words that describe the thing that is in the bag. They will match the descriptive words with the pictures. I have tried this game with my brother. He was able to match the words with the pictures. He memorized the words that were unknown for him easily as the game involves pictures.
EFL teachers can use this link to print different recipes and pictures which can be used especially with intermediate level students. Students will see and learn how to cook things and how to write recipes. They will learn both cooking and the language (the use of imperative: food items).
I have tried it myself and baked tasty cookies!
This video would best work with grown up kids. this video presents one of the greatest speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt - Declaration of War. This video will improve the students' listening skills, give information about world war II and the students will not only listen to the speech but also see Franklin D. Roosevelt. This can be used when covering topics such famouse people, famouse speeches, history...afterwards they can have a debriefing discussion.
In this interesting writing/speaking activity students write and discuss how people must and mustn't behave in their imaginative perfect world. I think this will work best with pre-intermediate level.
This activity is useful for listening and comprehension. I asked my 10 years old learner to listen and retell whatever she understood from the whole clip.It's quite suitable for low intermediate.
Answer the questions correctly to help Moby collect everything he needs. Beaware of secret trap doors and do not forget the hidden 6th objects. You will see 2 pictures and at the same time you will hera the sentence and your job is to click on the right picture to continue the game.
This activity will help the beginner students to learn the names of the animals. The power point will help them to remember the names easily as it is with pictures of animals. At the sasme time the students can learn the indefinite article "a". After looking at the power point the students can listen to the recorder and thus pronounce the names of the animals in a correct way.