Bag of Tricks

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

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.

Dear all, here is a link where I found a collection of strange signs. You may enjoy sharing it with your students or colleagues. Actually it is not an activity but it is an excellent raw material for creating a good activity. For example you may ask your students to decide what is wrong in these signs and getting students to correct them. Since the list is very funny and authentic I think it is very motivating for discussing it too so this may become a very good topic for the classroom discussion. Anyway I think you may create an excellent activity for the development of your students' speaking skills.

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.

Looking at the power point slides the beginner students will learn the types of weather. After that they can listen to the recorder and pronounce the words related to weather correctly.

This quiz is good for testing how correctly students can use prepositions in sentences. It can be printed out and used even if the classroom has no computers connected to the internet. I tried it with my friend and I can say that it served good as a testing activity.

This is by the way a great activity. I have tried on my students and I have got wonderful results. Of course, I have given to my 7th and 8th grade students as I think they could write about the topic better. Do u know what the results where; in the letter they reflected about their aims and future profession. I think that this activity is a free writing activity which can even enhance studets' imagination.

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.

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.

This game anhances students vocabulary skills.

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.

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

You can create your own story by the help of the objects and some different settings. This kind of activity can be useful for improving creative writing skills of intermediate level students.

This activity learn students the name of the cloths. This activity is suitable for low intermediate students to both have fun and learn the name of the cloths like, bathing suit, shirt and so on.

This is a good activity to learn the names of the clothes. Students will use their creativity to choose better and more suitable clothes for "girls".

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

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.

The music option of this site is really interesting for my 5 years old daughter although she can't understand many dialogs. Suitable interaction between software and kids make them motivated and enable the kids to keep learning in an imaginary fun world. It's one of the most user friendly software I have ever used for kids. Listen to a story is another option which can be used for elementary level students to enhance their listening skill.

This is a great site for intermediate's first grades to improve their reading and in some cases listening skills didn't include the beginning level in the tags since my subject (beginning level student) had difficulties in comprehension. However this site is quite useful for more advanced students.

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.