Bag of Tricks

I used this video/audio file to teach my 9 years old niece and her 8 years old friend English prepositions of places. The interesting thing was that I didn't tell them that they were going to learn prepositions . I just played the video clip and went away letting them watch and enjoy it. After watching the video clip several times, I noticed that they were learning prepositions by discussing the video clip and translating prepositions into Armenian language. Hence, I found this video clip to be very useful for teaching prepositions to children in an entertaining way.

Another game checking your knowledge in different parts of speech! So, learn, play, and have a great time!!!

I used this audio/video file during my practicum to teach 5 to 7 years old 10 little kids from AUA EEC courses and it succeeded. It was an entertaining way of teaching. The kids were motivated because they could hear and watch a colorful video clip. As in this audio/video file kids were singing and dancing by pointing out their parts of the body. Watching this motivated the kids and they started to imitate them. After playing the audio and video file several times they learned it by heart.

I have tried this activity with my group of advaned learners, and it was really efficient, as they are used to learn the words through glossaries.Besides,it helped to enhance their vocabulary adding some new words with their definitions.

Today I tried this activity on my 5th grade students and my little sister. This acitivity is not just a song. It is a game where your child can enhance his/her speaking and listening abiltiies and pronouciation while listening to it. Actually it is about people living in the world and it is an animated video. It was funny and I even promised them to write down the words (which is not difficult, as the animated man is singing and below the page u can see the sentences of the song) and give them at the next lesson so that they can learn it and sing the song together.

Try the New "Make a Face" Song Along with the increase in International Understanding Education in Japan, there is also a strong desire to preserve traditional Japanese activities. It's for this reason that in the New Year you'll probably find Japanese schools teaching lots of traditional games.

If you want to have fun and learn face parts in English, this game could be helpful. This game is better for kids, and beginner levels.

Songs are always excellent activities for kids. They become more cheerful, enthusiastic about the lesson. But the most important factor is that songs create stress-free environment. In m practice I have tried to sing songs with my students and it was a success. I advise you to try these activities in your classroom as well.

Another listening activity is TO FIND THE PET THAT FITS. Thus, the pupil is supposed to listen to the activity carefully and then click on the right animal. I tried again on my little sister but she got a bit disappointed because there were words not familar to here and she lost scors because of that. But I am sure this was a nice chance to learn new words about animals. When she finished she said: " I had never seen such a fat dog in my life". But in this case she did not say DOG in Armenian but in English.

I found these podcasts from the Sesame street website. They can be used for developing listening comprehension. There are also activities with the podcasts which can be used for developing listening comprehension. I tried this with our neighbour's son who is 12. He liked the activity very much and said that it was fun and interesting.

brainstorming activity, reading, reading comprehension checking, fill in the blank, writing, photography activity, grammar activity "if clause".

Susanna thank you very much for the link. I could use this in my own class and my student really like it. It contains exercises, reading, new vocabulary. Really thank you

there are a lot of exercises which enhance reading as well as accelerates writing. I gave this activity to my students and they did it with pleasure, especially those who have pets, particularly dogs in their families. Appropriate to be assigned as classwork and as homework.

This is the exact type of activity for speaking I found for my C4A groups. The topic is animals and it gets the students to read a dialogue and then speak. In my case this activity was a success! For beginners this is a very good and effective task.

This game helps the students of intermediate level to develop their vocabulary skills.

If one has difficulties in teaching feelings it is a good way to practice them. Via shooting activity kids listen to the word and shot the correct picture.

Another useful game that enriches vocabulary for ESL students, who already have some knowledge of English. This game is especially good in experiencing different situations, learning new words that are proper for that context. I think, it's also fun!

This is an interesting activity for kids to repeat letters, extend vocabulary, to pronounce the words correctly. For children who can read this crossword puzzle gives an opportunity to recognize words in written form and practice reading. I have practiced it with my 5 year old son and, though he can not read, he has learnt a lot of new words

This game serves better for upper elementary learners as they have to possess certain vocabulary in order to read the riddles and match them to the corresponding words. I have piloted this game with my 17-18-year-old students of that level and it worked very well.

I suggest using this link to have students of intermediate level get knowledge of ancient civilizations of Ancient Greek, Indus, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Romans, and so on. Students will learn about their Lands, Discovery, Way of Life, Home Life, The Gods and Heroes,Trade and Travel, Art and Writing, Technology and Jobs, Food and Farming, Games and Toys, The End of those Civilizations, What They Did For Us. Go and explore timelines.

This is a nice LISTENING activity with audio video materials. U can have ur child watch this. After watching perhaps ur child decides to become an interviewer or a weatherforcast man as my sister did. While watching the previous activities she (my sister) decided to become a cook and then she changed her mind and decided to become a weatherforcast woman. The activity is created by the British Coucil. This is a good opportunity to teach your child the names of the countries, continents and flags and quite a lot of adjectives, of course, everything in the target language. Ok, I guess I stop here, as I feel myself like an advertiser. Watch and test it and make ur own judgments. HAVE FUN KIDS.

A good activity to test the learners' awareness of the tenses.

This engaging game helps to build vocabulary and practice spelling. I explained the instructions to my friend's 6 and 8 year old kids and they played and liked this game. They asked me to play again and again, and after some times they managed to complete all missing letters of the given words correctly. So, this game can be used with benefits for EFL kids.

This is a wonderful game. when you click on one of the words it gives you an explanation. you can find here the words from Math, science, health, art & technology, social studies etc. You can also search a word and it will give the word with definition, It is very easy and useful to use.