ESL Activities 🎈

Easy activities for teaching Montessori English
Chris Parker
Teaching Montessori beginners. How Montessori works

12 Fun Recommendations Activities
Alex Case
Asking for, giving and responding to personal recommendations

Enforcing English in Elementary EFL Games
Jason Sturgeon
A game-design method for keeping elementary students on task during game play

10 Tips for Games in the ESL Classroom
Matt Errey
From the creator of the world’s best-selling ESL board game—ten practical ideas on using games when teaching English

On Using Games in the ESL Classroom
Matt Errey
Matt Errey looks at competitive versus co-operative games, and healthy versus unhealthy competition

TPR Games – Can/Can’t For Ability
Alex Case
Games with miming and other movement for the pronunciation and meaning of can and can’t.

9 Fun Activities for Can/Can’t for Ability
Alex Case
Ways of adding fun and loads of other useful language to what is usually your students’ introduction to modal verbs.

TPR Activities For Prepositions Of Position
Alex Case
Total Physical Response activities to practise on, under, next to etc with young learners.

Realia And Flashcard Activities For Prepositions Of Position
Alex Case
Ways of revising vocabulary as you present prepositions like “on” and “above”, or revising prepositions like these as you present new vocabulary.

Classroom Activities For The Language Of Opinions
Alex Case
Much more intensive language of agreeing and disagreeing etc than just the usual discussion questions.

Adding Language To Crafts
Alex Case
Ways to make sure craft activities develop students’ English ability as much as their artistic skills.

Activities For Ordinal Numbers
Alex Case
Stimulating practice for “first”, “second”, “twenty third” etc.

Thanking Activities
Alex Case
Entertaining ways to practise expressing gratitude.

Planning And Paragraphing Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating ways of quickly improving your students’ vital writing skills of planning and paragraphing.

Guessing Games For Third Person S
Alex Case
Fun practice for one of the most common mistakes in English, including ideas usable with levels from False Beginner.

Fun Adverbs Of Frequency Activities
Alex Case
Entertaining speaking activities for “always”, “sometimes”, “never” etc, as well as similar expressions like “once every two months” and “three times a day”.

Fun Activities For Weather Vocabulary
Alex Case
Making the clichéd topic of weather interesting, relevant and linked to other useful language

10 Fun Activities For Adjectives Of Personality
Alex Case
Stimulating activities to teach and practise the difficult but fascinating topic of words that describe people’s character

10 Fun Activities For Teaching Clothes Vocabulary
Alex Case
Ten entertaining ways to present and practise the names of clothes and ways of describing them, with activities for all ages and levels

More Fun Activities For Clothes Vocabulary
Alex Case
More fun activities based on the names of clothes and how to describe them. For all ages and levels.

Fun Activities For Language Of Emotions
Alex Case
Using TPR, drawings, stories and games to make feelings vocabulary memorable and fun