Bag of Tricks

One of the best ways to teach vocabulary using visuals and audio. This has worked very well with kids. They responded very positively and wanted to try again and again till they memorized the words.

This game would better serve for teenagers as it is not colorful or elaborate. It will help improve skills in adjective-synonyms. Learners can practice the vocabulary learned from other sources via this game.

Kids can learn numbers very easily. My daughter played it with pleasure.

I tried the game out, and I think it's a nice activity for developing spelling through listening to the word and catching the letters one by one so that to get the whole word. It's useful for children who already have some command of English.

This game is intended for intermidiate level of EFL students who may practice Present Perfect Tense, play it, forming sentences with the words of each colomn that offers them, pay attention to the correctness of the formed sentence, because if wrong words are picked from the colomns, they won't go ahead and will be stuck. It helps to revise the students' grammar competence and stay in a good shape:) Strongly recommended for higher level of learners!

I tried this activity with my C4A group. The topic was wild animals and this activity was excellent in terms of improving spelling and reinforcing the vocabulary on animals, You can also try this out!

This is a very good site to improve your English especially listening skills. Here one can watch interesting and funny series free of charge.

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.

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.

I tried this video back in NY while teaching to ESL adult students. They were intermediate students, though with good english knowledge. I was supposed to teach idioms and this video helped me to first remove myself from being the center of attention and second to help students learn the idioms more easily, as the visualizations readily stick in their mind. The students very much liked the video and its humor refreshed the class atmosphere. However, I suggest to include some post-task exercises both written and spoken to reinforce them. There are other categories such as eye idioms as well which can be used to teach idioms in a fun way.

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.

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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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 a listening vocabulary game for beginners - a productive and interesting way for practicing the target vocabulary. Ss need to turn on their speakers or put on their headphones, click the top and match with the bottom.

This game serves for elementary students to practice their skills in food vocabulary. The game is good not only in terms of food names but also because it helps practice names of food portions (e.g. "a lump of sugar," "a bar of chocolate," etc.

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.

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. :)

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.

This cartoon can be used to practice the four skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening. Suggestion on how to use: Before students listen/read the story, they are pre-taught some new vocabulary used in the story. Then students can play the story in pictures while they're listening to it. They can click on the button "READ" to turn off and on the text. It's better if the first time, they listen to the story with the text on (reading while listening). Then, they will listen to the story with the text off and see if they can still understand. (listening) When they feel confident, they can watch the story again with the text off and try to tell the story along with the pictures, without reading (speaking). You can also ask them to write this tale down as a composition (about 250 words or more if you want to). Vocabulary can also be boosted through story. Students can also come up with their own ideas by discussing where they would go if they had a magic carpet. I tried this with my young advance elementary students and it was pretty successful. we had also a very engaging discussion in which students said they would have gone if they have had a magic carpet. They also very much liked the cartoon itself.

A very easy and interesting way to teach and learn phonics for early readers. Attractive images and sounds make the kids have fun with phonics and learn them easily. The game also increases kids' concentration while trying to find hidden words with the same middle sound.

Here is a matching (pictures with words) game which will help your students practice vocabulary. I actually tried it myself and it is a lot of fun.