Bag of Tricks

This game is designed for learners who have problems with adding endings to words without making spelling mistakes.

It's similar to a car-racing game for kids with a funny interface, where a penguin is skiing. It differs from standard racing games in that it doesn't let the penguin go out of the road. Though it cannot be used for developing language skills, it's a fun activity for kids.

A lot of repetition - good for kids to pick up the patterns in the structure

It`s a good activity to learn and practice occupations with low intermediate EFL learners. They have to match the objects given with appropriate professions. It also gives short description of professions so students can practice their listening as well. I did this activity with one of my friends and it was interesting and challenging for her

A really good game to teach baking vocabulary including food and ingredients. I think it's a good idea to play with a girl, as the idea of baking a cake will be motivating.

* This painting game is good to teach or/and revise vocabulary as well as to practice listening and reading skills. I have practiced it with my 5 year old son. Though he can not read, with this activity he practiced listening, repeated known words and assimilated new vocabulary. And he enjoyed it very much! I think that other 5 -7 year old kids also will like it.

This is an engaging game for beginner level learners who want to practice the vocabulary of the parts of the face (hair, eyes, ears, nose, teeth, lips...). This game involves reading and recognizing these items in order to make a face. My sister is an intermediate level student, however she liked it for practicing the vocabulary.

This activity can be very useful for beginners. Children can learn about different word types such as the verb, noun and adjective with this fun game. With the help of interactive highlighter learners have to choose the word that answers to the given question. With the help of this game my neighbor is now able to differentiate adjectives, adverbs and etc.

Learn about different word types such as the verb, noun and adjective with this fun game for students.

Learn about different word types such as the verb, noun and adjective with this fun game for kids. This great online practice activity for students involves a series of challenges related to nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, clauses and phrases. Find these types of words in sentences and understand when to use them properly.

An amazing game to teach bedroom vocabulary. Easy to play with kids.

The game will be quite useful for those who want to teach or learn opposites. It is a kind of cartoon and the kids will really enjoy it.

This is a listening exercise which aims to assist learners' intonation and stress. For this song, upper intermediate students should listen and fill in the blanks with no help or discussion. They should then check what they have written with classmates. Once the lyrics are completed, students should be encoureged to sing along with the song, in order to practise the stress and intonation. I practised it with my student when having tutoring and it helped greatly.

Proper grammar game for practicing pronouns.

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.

Learners should continue forming interogative questions with help of the provided hints. This game is best for upper elementery level. My sister liked it very much and with the help of it learned a lot.

vocabulary-building activity booklet which includes a word search, a jumble, a spelling bee, and a mini picture dictionary.

I practiced it with my students. It was very interesting and challenging.

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.

I tried this with my 11 ear old cousin. His impression was great.

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 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.

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.