Bag of Tricks

This is a quite good activity to practice spelling and typing speed. Intermediate and advanced level of students may find it useful and fun. It may also develop word stock of the learner. It has tree level of difficulty; easy, medium and hard. I myself tried all of them and the hard level met my needs and abilities. Try it and improve your spelling and typing speed.

I used this video/audio flash cards to teach my neighbors' 13 years old son and his 2 classmates the Present Simple tense. Although, the students have learned present simple at school they didn't internalize it properly. They were mixing present simple with present continuous. Hence, I used these video/audio flash cards to help them. First, I explained the way how and where to use present simple and present continuous and then I played the video/audio file to let the students practice and internalize the material properly. Overall, I want to say that I found this material to be very helpful for both students and teachers especially when there is a confusion between present simple and present continuous tenses.

This is a very good activity to improve vocabulary. What is more interesting and even important about this site is that while you play, you can earn grains of rice for each correct answer that will be donated for charity, to help stop hunger in the world. You can also play with grammar here (free rice grammar).There are 60 levels for vocabulary and 5 levels for grammar. They increase by difficulty as you proceed. While trying this with my students, what was so exciting for them was that they learned by answerng correctly they are particpating in a humanitarian act and this greatly motivated them to answer the tests and learn new vocabulary. Though we did just the first 2 levels, the next session almost all of them said that they kept playing it to collect more rice and for this they had learned a large number of new vocabulary. They also said they are gonna play it again when finished both to collect more rice for hunger as well as review what they had learned.

interesting and motivating activity. Just like your Ss I had the feeling that I'm helping hungry people. I wish I could!

Actually Armineh jan u did if you collected 100 grains of rice. I've checked the legitimacy of the cite and it is run by UNICEF.

This activity is designed for elementary student. It works good with adults and children. The aim of the activity is to find the second part of the word. I have tried it with an elementary level adult and she found it very useful for building new vocabulary

This game helps to teach the vocabulary necessary to describe people by appearance. Learners could practice adjectives (colors, size, etc.) through this game. I tried it with my brother and it appeared to be useful.

It's an interesting game.The player must match the faces according to description they listen. I piloted this game with my students and they all liked it. it was very useful.

This is a fun interactive lesson to teach kids about the different modes of transport.

I tried this game with our neighbor and she enjoyed playing it. The game teaches the numbers and colors.

This game teaches the action verbs with simple present and present continuous.I've done this with our neighbor , he is 9 and enjoyed playing it, but he asked the translation of some words.

A free concentration-style memory game to play on the internet. Kids will practice matching letters, numbers, colors, patterns, characters, and more as the levels progress in difficulty.

This is a great matching game(matching the initials with the corresponding words and pics) for kids who are learning English. I tried this with my brother and he already knew how to play it and knew the character of the game.

I was very glad to find this website and this particular activity. Once you become a member you can download all activities. This activity revises family words and their spelling.

This video would best work with grown up kids. this video presents one of the greatest speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt - Declaration of War. This video will improve the students' listening skills, give information about world war II and the students will not only listen to the speech but also see Franklin D. Roosevelt. This can be used when covering topics such famouse people, famouse speeches, history...afterwards they can have a debriefing discussion.

This is an animated lesson on human body parts and their functions. Learning about the human body becomes easier with this interactive lesson for kids.

Students should mach the pictures to the correct food groups.

Simple exercise using the past simple. Students should make sentences using the given words.

Includes reading, listening, and vocabulary with an interesting topic that could be pulled integrated into a lesson rather easily.

Good extra practice/self assessment tool after teaching when to use gerunds vs. infinitives.

In general I have found the BBC Words In the News site to be very good. Here is a video exercise I found. It's probably best for int. to upper int. students. The Video includes and a PDF of the script can be downloaded separately if you wish. and there is an exercise included to reinforce the new grammar.

Rooting Out Words Game teaches students the origin of words.

This is an online Choose Your Adventure story for students to read that includes pictures with the text. Students will also have to make decisions to move forward.