Learning English does not have to be a boring exercise in grammar drills and vocabulary memorization. Here in Korea, getting the students to use English as a means of communication in the classroom is vital to language development.
That’s why I like to mix logic puzzles and word games into classroom worksheets and discussion activities. It makes the class fun. The students use active English. Everybody learns and gets a little smarter.
English Classroom Puzzle Worksheet
Here is a activity worksheet for today’s class. Enjoy. This ESL worksheet has:
Quick thinking. Faster speaking. ESL students will need these skills to watch and discuss the actions in this English video discussion and fluency lesson.
English Video Discussion Activity
Here is the video for this ESL speaking lesson.
I will try a new speaking activity for this video lesson.
Here is another video discussion lesson for ESL classes. This lesson follows the same format I described for another video lesson. The video is a a prompt to help students improve listening, thinking, speaking and fluency skills.
One of the keys to this conversation activity is that Group A students (the people who watch the video for the first time) must answer the questions [click to continue…]
Routine. It’s a useful classroom tool. It also brings boredom and unhappiness. That’s why routine needs to be broken from time to time.
That’s what this ESL speaking activity will do. Hopefully.
Fantasticats
This is an activity which I have shamelessly borrowed from a terrfic business training website. Here is the link for business balls.
This conversation activity creates the conditions for a free speaking activity. With a few prompts the students will engage in an English conversation that does not rely on substitution drills or preset vocabulary. [click to continue…]
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