Shared by anonymous
If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?
If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
What is one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime?
When you were little, who was your favourite super hero and why? ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: conditionals, icebreaker, idea, questions, warmup
Shared by Ewa
This is a great activity idea to use in the esl classroom. It combines reading, synonyms, grammar (parts of the sentence) and a bit of personalisation. It works great at the beginning of a course when students still don't know their teacher.
Task
Guess that sentence!
Excerpt
Clues:
1. It’s a pronoun ...
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Posted in ESL worksheets
Keywords: grammar, guessing, idea, personalisation, reading, warmup
Shared by anonymous
Author: Richelle Hewin
Roll the dice to find out which question word to use.
Materials: Several dice (1 per pair / group of three works well)
Procedure
Elicit question words from the class (e.g. 'What', 'How long', etc)
Show the dice to the class to elicit what it is, and how many sides ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: adults, children, dice, elementary, game, idea, speculating, wh- questions
This is another version of a well known task based on the idea that there are two people/groups. One of which always lies whereas the other always tell the truth. All you need to do is read to your students the following story and give them some time to come ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: game, idea, lie, questions, quiz, speculating, trivia, truth
Shared by Kate
The idea is not new, but I've found it works really great with all groups of students. It is a typical grammar drill with a bit of meanigfulness added. It can be used to practice just about any conditional sentence, not only first conditional. This is how it ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: chaining, conditional, drill, grammar, idea, speaking
Shared by Mark
In fact this technique can be used to check any kind of task. The rationale behind it is that it helps to undermine the "teacher knows all" attitude of some students. It will definitely work best in classes consisting of young English learners as it encourages students to ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: checking, gap-fill, idea, learner-autonomy
Shared by Mark
Some of us are lucky to have computers in our classrooms. Being able to use a computer lab can be a real blessing when you simply have no idea for a fun and motivating lesson.
Basically, the most obvious idea for using computers in the classroom is "web research ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: houses, idea, internet, motivation, real-estate, research
Shared by Marek from Poland
I always have trouble presenting new vocabulary items to beginners and false beginners. For obvious reasons I cannot use monolingual dictionaries and translating words from English into Ss native language all the time feels a bit wrong.
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas, ESL worksheets
Keywords: elementary, idea, reading, vocabulary
Shared by Krystyna
Most of us think of dictation as the boring blast from the past but there are ways of making it a little bit more interesting.
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: dictation, elementary, idea, personalising, writing
Shared by Adam
It's a very simple task that will help your students practice associating ideas. The ability is especially needed during oral tests when a person is presented with a topic about which one knows very little or nothing.
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: game, idea, intermediate, justifying, speaking