Teach English with Logic Puzzles and Word Games

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Can you turn brain teasers into a powerful ESL creative writing activity? Absolutely. Logic puzzles and word games add variety to your lessons, keep motivation high, and create natural moments for ESL writing practice. With the right structure, you can turn quick puzzles into rich ESL classroom activities that build vocabulary, grammar accuracy, and clear written explanations.

In this post, you’ll see how to use logic puzzles as the backbone of an ESL writing lesson, how to turn them into creative ESL prompts, and how to add simple conditional writing practice without redesigning your whole course.

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Learn English Speaking, 9

Learn English Plan

This is week 9 of the semester. Here is this week’s plan for to helps students learn English conversation.

  1. Briefly discuss midterm exam answers.
  2. Introduce the Walk About Activity.
  3. A simple grammar exercise, this ESL conversation worksheet helps students review questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
  4. An English speaking exercise that requires precision. Watch the video. Work with a partner to describe the actions and say how they match the concept. Make notes. Then change partners. Listen to their ideas.
  5. This worksheet has a few public signs. Students read the signs, learn the vocabulary and explain the meaning of the signs.
  6. Read the sentence and discuss with your partner. Change partners. Listen and discuss. Make notes. Come back to your partner and make a report.
  7. Chapter 9 in the textbook.

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Learning English with a Walk About

Learning English with a Walk About

Main Idea

This wonderful, student-centred fluency activity generates lots language in the classroom with a good mix of scripted and spontaneous talk. If you’re weary of the traditional oral presentation format – one student speaks for five minutes and 19 others feign attention – yet want to give students a chance to write and speak, this is a must-try activity.

  • Level: high beginner and up
  • Time: 40-90 minutes
  • Resources: each student prepares a poster; teacher brings adhesive tape.

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