Bag of Tricks

An interesting game that teaches not only the target language, but also gives a lot of information about the history of the target language calture.

This game can be used to teach word order of sentences. I tried the medium mode of the game with my sister (a beginner EFL learner). It helped my sister to internalize the basic patterns of word order in English.

This game is helpful for teaching synonyms to kids. I tried the medium mode of this game with my neighbor and he liked it. He learned many new words from this game. Alternatively, it allows to see how the given words are pronounced and spelled. There is a worksheet which can be printed out to use in case there are no computers connected to the internnet at your disposal.

fun enough but the names the food you select aren't shown 

Here you can find reading comprehension worksheets for 2nd Grade students in pdf formats. They are funny and easy to work with. If your student doesn't like to read long texts, as mine, then they are exactly what you need. At the end of every text, there are questions to check your student's reading comprehension. It worked pretty well with my student.

This is a listening vocabulary exercise - You need to turn on your speakers or put on your headphones.Click the top and match with the bottom. Wait till you hear the audio before you click next match. I tried this game with my student . She says it helped her much in vocabulary learning.

This is a great source to teach your students words related to kitchen. If you tutor at your home or at your student's home, it is better take him/her to the kitchen and show him/her everything.Or you can bring some kitchen utilities into the class and show them. I myself tried it with my private student and it was a success.This way they will internalize the material better.

A number of games from Dr. Seuss's stories: Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Grinch and Christmas, etc. COuldn't bookmark them separately cause it's all one flash file. 

It's useful for word spelling for young learners.

This activity teaches the name of some vegetables. Below the pictures are given the names of the vegetables and the students have to put the names in their corresponding places. All the pictures are colorless which gives the students the opportunity to color them. So, the teacher can either revise the colors or to introduce them to the students. I gave this activity to my own students and they did it with pleasure. They already knew the colors, so that was only revision for them.

Looking at the power point slides the beginner students will learn the types of weather. After that they can listen to the recorder and pronounce the words related to weather correctly.

I have tried this myself in order to see whether it's effective or no! No I am sure that I want to try it with my students. It raises Ss creativity and is fun. This can serve as a good activity with all levels.

I really liked this activity. It is very creative.

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This game anhances students vocabulary skills.

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!

Kids can learn kinds of animals and animal families (such as mammals, fishes, reptile and so on) they belong to. This activity can be used to reinforce learners' vocabulary of differrent kinds of animals.

The music option of this site is really interesting for my 5 years old daughter although she can't understand many dialogs. Suitable interaction between software and kids make them motivated and enable the kids to keep learning in an imaginary fun world. It's one of the most user friendly software I have ever used for kids. Listen to a story is another option which can be used for elementary level students to enhance their listening skill.

The only thing you need to do is to create an account and start creating or teaching your students how to create glogs. You can engage your students in making their posters on different topics from movies to animals. I asked my brother to make a poster on animals. He was instantly involved in the process :)

This is a good reading and speaking task which includes scientific issues in a simplified language. The topic is attractive for teenagers and there are enough discussion issues to use as a reading and speaking exercise in the class situation.

This is a great site for intermediate's first grades to improve their reading and in some cases listening skills didn't include the beginning level in the tags since my subject (beginning level student) had difficulties in comprehension. However this site is quite useful for more advanced students.