Bag of Tricks

Conflict resolution role cards (personal questions) - an intercultural roleplay Korean: You are the 60 year old manager of a US company's Korean office. A young executive has come from America to change the way you run your office.

This game can be played as a good warm up activity. Students practice vocabulary in an engaging and fun atmosphere.

Good for engaging students in a creative and fun poem-writing activity. While writing the poem, Ss can hold the "alt" key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it.

Students practice finding the stressed syllable in a word via a game. There are similar games (also for vocab.) in the other section of the website.

This is just a sample listening quiz from eslvideo.com.The website has a variety of such videos for all levels with corresponding comprehension checking quizes.

Online Jeopardy game to revise past simple verb forms (regular and irregular)

I particularly like the first activity in the webpage (past accusations). It is a good way of practicing and consolidating past tenses.

I used the video and the activities to revise past tenses with a pre-intermediate level. The instructions are on the page.

This is an online game you can use if you use technologies in the class. Otherwise, you might print them out and provide handouts to your students. This game can be played in pairs or individually. Or you may want to divide your students into two groups. Provide with two boards or flipcharts and have two groups work separately within a certain time limitation to complete the assignment. The group that finishes first wins and gets a price, star, etc.

A pretty good opportunity to learn or revise the jobs in English. This crossword will no doubt help your students to enrich their vocabulary.

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.

Fun for kids! Prince, princess, magic, passing levels...children love this kind of things. So, I would just say "enjoy learning via playing".

This is a classroom game where students answer questions to win billions. This game is a good practice for plural nouns. I have tried this game with my 10 years old student (beginner level) who liked this game very much mainly because it was the prototype of a famous game "Who wants to become a millionaire?". Though he did not win when he played for the first time, however he tried for several times unless he won.

This is a very good ice breaker, it can work with all levels. I think the students will appreciate the creativity of their teacher to use M&M's in order to get acquainted with her (the teacher) as well as with each other. I think this can also work with kids, only in that case the teacher would ask the SS to tell about themselves in their native language.

I really liked the activity as while practising the comparatives it may also induce some discussion about the validity of the facts introduced by students.

This game can be played on line or again with the use of handouts. In case if you don't want to use it online, then the best option is to prepare cards with the word and the articles below, as in the online version. And have the students answer every time you show one card. You can choose one students to answer or make it a competition on "first answered gets a star" This can be engaging and motivating.

This webpage gives some interesting activities for practicing Present Perfect. Some of them I have used some are new. Give it a try. These activities can be done by students in pairs. Students may ask follow up questions such as when, who, with, which will lead them from Present Perfect to Past Simple.

This activity is a great one for pair work. Present Perfect is the best to be practiced on activity work sheets like this. Enjoy. I do practice them in my class. Students work individually at first, then they turn to their partner and work with him.