Bag of Tricks

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.

It is a wonderful site with at least 6 differnt exercises. The exercises are connected with listening for specific purposes, listening for vocabulary, gap filling, grammer (have has + V3), etc. Listening also containes of songs though wich the learners may inprove their listening skills.

The Game practices vocabulay concerning with Home, Furniture,Actions, Rooms - Bedroom, Bathroom, Living room. It is recuired for classroom use. It is both group and individual game as is depends on the learners. They will choose numer of the players.

This is an interactive game practicing grammar (active vs. passive voice). It's for intermediate level of students. I think the learners will be interested in as each correct answer in the gap filling exercise will give them an opportunity to play basetball.

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.

In this game your learners are to unscramble a word of 8 letters and make a meaningful word.

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

Hig Pig: Decode the riddle to find the 2 word (1 syllable each) rhyming answers Have fun:)

Idioms Game - Slang Game is very good for being exposed to idioms og the target language. I liked the game very much, because I find it funny, interesting and useful.

Do you know what it means to let the cat out of the bag? Play this game to learn more!:)))

This site is a collection of games, songs and ideas for use by teachers of languages to children. This site gives you the techniques and confidence to teach any language and get your kids finishing a lesson with a big smile saying "Yeah, that was fun! I want to do more!". there are also video materials that may help or give some ideas to teachers how to make the lesson funny and interesting:)

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 is a classroom game where students first answer and question, then the teacher clicks the numbers to reveal the answer. If the answer given was correct, the team keeps the point. If not, the teacher deducts the point.

This is a classroom game where you spin the wheel and students answer questions to score points.Review Animals, clothes, colours and numbers vocabulary-

This is a very good site for language learners and teachers. It includes video materials and relevant worksheets for each video material. Students can watch the films, and work with those worksheets. This site helps to improve all four skills which is very important in EFL\ESL settings.

These materials are from BBC Learning English site. All of them are downloadable and each audio & video material have its pdf file (with transcript and vocabulary). These audios/videos are good for developing students' listening and reading skills, increasing students' vocabulary, and also speaking skills. It depends on the purpose of using this material. For example I used the first one (I haven't used the others yet) "Are men the weaker sex" with my intermediate students. While listening they underlined all the unknown words they had come up with, then we discussed the words together (I explained them in a target language). After, the discussion, I asked them not to look at the transcript and listened to the audio again. At the end of the audio they told me what the audio was about and in this way I could make them speak.

This is a wonderful site and everybody can find audio and video materials on their level. All the materials develop listening, speaking, reading skills (skimming, scanning, true/false, etc), increase students' vocabulary. Almost all of them contain pdf files with activities and transcripts which also can be done online. All the materials provide examples (both online and on pdf file). I used some of them in my classes. I would like to talk about the video that explains the differences between the words of American English and British English. It was a wonderful video that could explain the different use of pants/trousers and other words also. In addition to video there are also exercises which also reinforces the vocabulary and provide with additional activities that develop students' different skills.

This is a wonderful activity for developing students' listening, reading (skimming and scanning), speaking skills, as well as increasing vocabulary. it contains variety of activities which are based on the listening. Moreover, all the activities can be done both online and on paper (all materials are printable including the transcript of the audio). It contains a pre-watching vocabulary activity the story a comprehension activity a language activity about idioms I used this material with my two intermediate students. Though the level was lower I have decided to try. In order to help them I wrote down the words/expression that they might be unknown and discussed them before listening. Then they listened to the audio but still had difficulties to understand completely what the audio was mainly about. In order to solve the misunderstanding I have decided to give the transcripts to read while listening (It helped much to understand). I used the third activity to check whether they could scan and skim the information (they could as I guess reading helped them very much). The last activity was a multiple choice activity where the students should look at the given idioms and choose the best meaning. Suggestion- If your students are not high intermediate/advanced the process will be slowed down. Just use transcript and after listening discuss the text. It will help.

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.

These flashcards can be used for teaching children animals

These are flashcards of animals. They are colorful and funny. I'm completely sure kids will like them

When I was doing my practicum in EEC I really had problems in finding good flashcards. The problems was that in order to find a picture of a particular animal, I had to type the animal's name (eg.lion, cat) and then choose on of them, then change the size (make it bigger or smaller) and this process took me a long time. When I found this site I was very happy because they are very funny and colorful and there are approximately 10-15 animal picture that I can print immediately without searching them long or changing the size.

This material is for beginner level kids. Kids can color the alligator both online and on paper. After coloring they can cut the parts and stick together. It's a creative material and may interest kids very much

This material will be appropriate to use with kids because it can increase kids' creativity. From the language point, it is also very useful material as we can teach the letter a as it begins with and also body parts (hands, legs, tail, head, and so forth). It is very interactive material and can be used not only by teachers but also by moms who have little kids. Yesterday, I printed out this alligator and used for our neighbor's kid, who was very naughty and didn't interested in anything. Due to this material I was able to keep her quite and also teach some English words and also two-three colors which we used to color the alligator.