Bag of Tricks

When I found it I said wow.....It's fun even for me. You play basketball and learn common nouns, proper nouns and not nouns.... Have fun with this game ::)) I piloted it with a 10-year old boy he really liked it. Then after a week I gave him vocabulary matching activity based on the words learned in this game and guess what he remembered 90% of words... Isn't that fantastic.!!!

This game helps to teach the vocabulary necessary to describe people by appearance. Learners could practice adjectives (colors, size, etc.) through this game. I tried it with my brother and it appeared to be useful.

It's an interesting game.The player must match the faces according to description they listen. I piloted this game with my students and they all liked it. it was very useful.

Read about facts and match them to countries. Not as interactive, but could work for lessons where you discuss geography and agriculture. 

Kids can listen to and read a story in funny settings (and also through listening to songs). The story is about how Boowa helps his new friend Kwala find her family.This trick can be used for teaching kids travelling by developing their reading and listening skills. The story consists of 13 chapters, so it's better to teach them during a couple of classes.

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.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! With the help of this game the learners can enrich their vocabulary and then apply the words into their right places according to definition. Play and have fun!!!!

A challenging game that helps to enhance memory function by means of color memory match words. This game may be suitable for learners who confuse colors. So, keep playing and enjoying!!!

This game helps to practice body movements and actions vocabulary. It is a matching game, matching the images with the words. It is good for beginning level students as the images serve better to reinforce the vocabulary you have recently learned.

This activity is designed for elementary student. It works good with adults and children. The aim of the activity is to find the second part of the word. I have tried it with an elementary level adult and she found it very useful for building new vocabulary

neat video that reinforces some of the vocabulary, concepts, as well as hygiene and eating habits among kids

This is a great place to learn / revise the vocabulary related to jobs and the difference between the present simple and the present continuous with the help of an interactive book. I have tried this with 2 intermediate level students and it was highly effective.It enhances all 4 skills.

Learn / revise how to ask questions in four different tenses (present simple, present continuous, past simple, and present perfect) with this interactive book ! Enjoy! Grammar can also be fun!

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!

An advanced level activity, which teaches set expressions on the above mentioned topic. Teaching is content based: guessing the meanings from the video stuff, then reinforcing them with the help of multiple choice activity. I tried it with my sister, and the result was pretty good. After watching the video, she wrote a composition using all the set expressions in the video. She used all of them correctly.

An advanced level activity, which teaches set expressions on the above mentioned topic. The expression are at first taught in the context (in the car), then reinforced by questions and filling gap activities.I tried it with my sister. She said that it was very precise, comprehensive and taught in the real life situation.

An intermediate level activity, which aims to teach food categories, particular types of them and what they are useful for. I tried it with my sister, she said that the teachig method was good, but the voice and pitch of the speaker were not enough clear.

A beginning level game, which interactively teaches colors and shapes. The language is clear, comprehensive. The voice and animation is childish which motivates kids to get enthusiastic and interested in it.

I tried this site for testing myself and found it an easy and useful task. It has 3 levels of difficulty.It's a suitable task for intermediate and advanced students.