Bag of Tricks

This is good activity for advanced beginner level students to practice three things at the same time - Modal verbs, asking Polite questions, and Special questions. I'm going to try it with my practicum group.

This is a good listening activity, where learners will listen to a story and get used to coping with noise when listening. They can listen to the story with and without subtitles. Then they can answer comprehension questions. Alternatively, it is a good story - a part of Halloween party, and students can describe the clothes and characters they see.

Interesting! I myself played it. I think, this can be entertaining for teens especially as it includes basketball game as well and can be played either individually or in pairs.

All the three activities are good for practising Past Continuous but most of all I liked "Alibi" . I do think, it's excellent for all level students but I would prefer to practise it with intermediate ones. Students will be able to improve their speaking skills via creating stories. Besides, the process can be very intriguing.

This one will lead you to the space where you can find a brief explanation and also some activities for your students

This link will lead you to the space where you can actually generate worksheets for activities to practice comparatives and superlatives

This is very engaging and fun game for pre-intermediate and intermediate level students. It also includes a bunch of words that can be used for teaching advanced students. I myself enjoyed playing it. There's also way to fasten the speed of falling letters that will be proper to apply with advanced students to increase intrigue and make students think quickly.

In this speaking activity students think about and discuss a city they would like to live in for a year. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project.

They are flash cards for speaking activities. It can be used with a group or as pair work. The student is to describe what they see in the pictures in the flash card to the rest of the group until they can guess what is in the flash card. It is very engaging and the students will practise speaking with fun and excitement.

The flashcards don't seem to be free though.

This intriguing lesson helps teach students to consider what makes them really happy in their lives. The students get to share the information with their classmates and examine their findings by looking at reasons for happiness and studying the most popular categories for happiness.

This memory game helps students to learn the vocabulary concerning Family members and provides correct pronunciation which is very important for them to learn.It develops students' memory and listening comprehension simultaneously. I tried this game with my 10 years old neighbour and he enjoyed it very much.

This is an Audio concentration game or memory game for elementary level students. The game practices the names of family members. The player needs to click on each card, try to remember the word and find another card with the same word to pair them. The game trains concentration skills, at the same time helps students learn the words through repetition.

Very engaging activity.

Simon Says is a classic game that works really well as a fun ESL classroom activity. It's a simple, fast activity that is great for improving listening skills and is especially fun for younger students who love moving around.

A very useful game for ESL /EFL Kids. This site has various topic based word games, exercises, quizzes and printable worksheets. This one is to practice body parts.

To revise animals,colors, clothes, numbers

This game is also excellent for classroom teaching. Teachers can engage students in a classroom vocabulary review for elementary ESL, EFL Learners. It helps review ESL English Vocabulary Related to Animals, Colors (Colours), Clothes and Numbers, using this ESL Wheel of Fortune Game. It will energize even a dull class

Great online activity to improve listening skills.

A fun, engaging way to practice the vocabulary.

I really liked this game, very engaging.Thanks :)

Thanks Christina jan :-)

This game helps SS to practice prepositions (for, in, to, from, by, at, on, since, with etc.). To me it is also excellent for classroom teaching. This game is especially useful for intermediate level students.

Practice prepositions (for, in, to, from, by, at, on, since, with etc.) in this ESL Grammar Interactive fun wheel game.Teachers can engage students in a classroom grammar review for elementary ESL, EFL Learners.

Thanks Hasmik jan :-)

6 well chosen games for the EFL/ESL classroom comes with sample games.

This activity can be practiced with pre-intermediate level students. It introduces the learners with nouns that are both countable and uncountable. It allows learners to notice both usages of the nouns in context which are both grammatically correct but one of the sentences sounds unusual or strange. Learners should find out which is more common in each pair.

This activity can be helpful for intermediate and above level students who want to improve their knowledge of using correct cohesive devices. The activity provides typical errors in cohesion and helps students notice the errors and choose the best cohesive devices.