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Paint Chip Essay Instruction
Writing Activities Paint Chip Essay Writing I had been experiencing trouble with teaching essay writing for some reason this year. I had seen a video from “TeachingChannel” about using paint chips...
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Giving advice – problem cards
This is a pair activity for practising giving advice. Make ten problem cards. Choose ten students who will tell their partner about his/her problem. Then the partner will give them advice. These...
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Using Images
Images are powerful materials that a teacher can use to help students learn language. Just released is the “50 Ways To Use Images In The Classroom” list. A great resource with loads of examples and...
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Mr. Has Been
I have used this recipe to hilarious effect over my teaching years. Always a winner! It focuses on the present perfect continuous tense and gets students practicing this form/conjugations. Come to...
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Asking your questions
Asking your questions TEACHING NOTES ACTIVITY Students get a chance to ask each other questions, then try to guess the original questions based on a handful of answers. GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY Questions...
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Vocabulary Recycling
Here is an activity for vocabulary revision. This activity works well with the students who need constant control for vocabulary revision. First, we need to make sure that we have spent enough time on...
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Family Photos
This is a fun activity to do at the beginning of the school year or course. But works any time. Ask students to bring in 5 photos with family and friends in them. Have some of your own to provide to...
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Leave The Room
This is a standard game and can be played to practice a variety of language forms (or just for fun!). I use it to practice the difficult “have/has been …” present perfect tense. Put the forms on the...
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Stop The Bus
This is a great game that is easy to start/finish. 1. Get students in small groups. 2. Select 3 categories. Ex. Food / Country / Verb 3. Select a letter from the alphabet. Ex. G 4. Students...
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Guess Where I Am?
This is an easy but fun lesson to practice geography, question making and language skills. 1. Choose one student who comes to the front of the class. 2. The student writes in big letters on a piece of...
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Video Lessons Galore
EFL Classroom 2.0 is now totally free and open for all teachers and students. Part of this is the site EFL Video Lessons. There you can scroll through a player with recommended videos for a specific...
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Scavenger Hunt
In small groups, students have a list of 34 common items that they will have to collect in a given amount of time. To do this, they will need to ask other students in class if they can borrow an item....
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Board Race
A classic. Board Race is a fun game that is used for revising vocabulary, whether it be words from the lesson you’ve just taught or words from a lesson you taught last week. It can also be used at the...
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The Top 100 Videos For ELT
It’s the Youtube generation we’re teaching! Here is our recommended “best” 100 Youtube videos for teaching English. Get the full list on EFL Classroom 2.0 + resources to download and use to teach with...
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English Is Everywhere
A very simple idea and great for the start of a class year or course. Give students strips of paper, scotch tape and markers. Get the students to go around the classroom and label everything,...
View ArticleInside Outside Circles
I’ve seen classrooms literally transformed when teachers start using this technique in their classrooms! It’s great for conversation based activities or taking up homework or exercises. Description...
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Divide learners into teams of four. Write a word that you introduced last week on the whiteboard, like: loyal (adjective) Ask learners to agree on: the definition (faithful, devoted to...
View ArticleSimple Dictogloss
You can use a dictogloss task to practise all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), along with grammar or lexis. See a nice explanation HERE. If the topic of the week is sport,...
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Stand Up If
A fun listening and getting to know each other game for the class or even online (in the video conference, students can “raise your hand if ..”. Read out statements and students stand up if they answer...
View ArticleFree 2021 Calendars
Calendars are great to use in the classroom. Students can personalize them and learn about the important dates of the English world and for the school year. Give students a big piece of chart paper and...
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