A panoply of teaching resources.
My students know I like to use logic puzzles, games and trivia in the ESL classroom.
These activities help build my students’ general knowledge, improve English fluency, upgrade vocabulary, strengthen problem solving skills….in English. And, they are fun.
These ESL worksheets help students build speaking skills and improve logical thinking in English.
Here are two pages of brainteasers.
Here are two pages of conversation worksheets. This is a pair work speaking exercise.
Read the puzzles. Explain the answers.
Remember the key point is not to find the answer. The main idea of this fluency exercise is to explain the answer. In English.
Download the ESL conversation conversation and puzzle activities here: puzzle-worksheet.
Learning vocabulary is important for ESL students. That is a simple idea. But here is the hard part. Are you learning English words and phrases the smart way? Or, the wrong way?
Here in Asia, students love to cram. They fill their brains with words, grammar and sentence patterns for a test. After the test, most of that information is gone. Forgotten. It seems