Bag of Tricks

Using this site, you can Improve your students compositions dramatically, teaching them how to plan their ideas first. This programme will help them create and print a map with the ideas they need. I tried this with a couple of my private students who are studying for iBT TOFEL examination. They stated that using this map they could write a sentence or a paragraph for every idea and this way they had a coherent essay, well organized and much better than the usual messy stuff they would produce formerly.

Adeh this is a very nice way to involve students in essay writing. I tried it myself and I found it very useful. I am going to use this with my own students. It is a real sample for academic essay writing and also we can print our writing. Thank you for this format.

Hi Nune. Thx for the comment. Honestly, Likewise I liked it very much. I believe even our classmates can use this to produce decent writings. :)

Alice is a bot (robot) with A.I. (artificial intelligence). You can chat with her, and she'll speak back to you. She never gets bored or tired of talking with you. She can answer math questions, tell you where most countries are and what their capitals are,and she even knows a few pretty funny jokes. She at times makes mistakes, but overall performs very well. She can understand you a lot better if you type carefully. Your students can chat with Alice to practice English, but they have to try to type and spell carefully. They need to take their time, and think about good grammar, good vocabulary and making good sentences. They can use their conversation as a practice time to apply what they have learned in English. You can chat with Alice anytime. The first 2500 exchanges each month have more animation and even have speech. I tried chating with her for half an hour and I should confess that I fell in love with her! She can nicely initiate discussions or answer your questions. A great tool to both practice language and also learn new things from her.

A game that will require from ur students to be qkick minded. This game will enhance their raeding skills and vocabulary. Have a look at it and enjoy.

This is by the way a great activity. I have tried on my students and I have got wonderful results. Of course, I have given to my 7th and 8th grade students as I think they could write about the topic better. Do u know what the results where; in the letter they reflected about their aims and future profession. I think that this activity is a free writing activity which can even enhance studets' imagination.

This is a game where the learners have to guess and spell the missing word in present progressive form

Good for students' vocabulary reinforcement. Interesting and easy to play.Students are supposed to click on a blue tile, then another. If they are opposites, they match and disappear. If they're not opposites, they'll flip back over.

This handout contains the right names of the animals in flashcards presented in the following bookmark.

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.

Creative activities to be used in the classsroom

Dear all, here is a link where I found a collection of strange signs. You may enjoy sharing it with your students or colleagues. Actually it is not an activity but it is an excellent raw material for creating a good activity. For example you may ask your students to decide what is wrong in these signs and getting students to correct them. Since the list is very funny and authentic I think it is very motivating for discussing it too so this may become a very good topic for the classroom discussion. Anyway I think you may create an excellent activity for the development of your students' speaking skills.

This game gives the student the opportunity to activate his/her vocabulary. It provides the student with eight letters and the student has to make up as many words with these letters as possible. Good game for individual and group work. My students liked it but they said that they had better play this game at home. They confessed that this game if played regularly activates passive vocabulary.

Listen and drag things that belong in a zoo. 

This activity is ideal when learning new words referring to a specific topic. I assume that children learn words better when they see them visually. It helps them remember them. Whenever I give such an activity to my students they respond to it enthusiastically: they revise their vocabulary, associate the words with the topic, learn new words. For beginners this activity will be ideal.

A fun game that teaches-Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives and Adverbs! Enjoy it:)

Here is a good online writing site. I think it si for high beginner or low intermediate level. It gives opportunities for choosing the title, the format (letter, news paper article, etc), and panting wich you will draw.

The activity consists of flashcards. Below the pictures there are some words. The teacher can cut the pictures and the words and ask the students to find the corresponding pictures and words. Teachers can assign it as a group or an individual work. This activity is more suitable for class work. I gave this activity to my daughter and she was interested in it. She asked me to give her more activities like that. So, I decided to give such activities to my beginner group students.

It is an interactive online activity for kids. These instructions game for kids will help students understand the importance of writing clear, concise instructions for a range of interesting tasks. Choose from a list of different activities such as making a sandwich, putting up a tent and making a robot. Write step by step instructions in English for how it should be performed from the perspective of someone who has never done it before.

This instructions game for kids will help students understand the importance of writing instructions for a range of interesting tasks. The learners should choose from a list of different activities such as making a sandwich, putting up a tent and making a robot.

This activity learn students the name of the cloths. This activity is suitable for low intermediate students to both have fun and learn the name of the cloths like, bathing suit, shirt and so on.

This is a good activity to learn the names of the clothes. Students will use their creativity to choose better and more suitable clothes for "girls".

You can create your own story by the help of the objects and some different settings. This kind of activity can be useful for improving creative writing skills of intermediate level students.

This quiz is good for testing how correctly students can use prepositions in sentences. It can be printed out and used even if the classroom has no computers connected to the internet. I tried it with my friend and I can say that it served good as a testing activity.