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| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games for Teaching Kids and Adults Paul Young, 2021-07-20 Why ESL Games for Kids and Adults? Learn how to enhance your lessons with a collection of fun interactive games for teaching English in any context. The activities outlined inside this book have been adapted from popular board games, TV game shows, and party games for all ages. Easily integrate core language skills in all of your classes. The flexible format allows you to customize your lessons to focus on specific skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every activity includes real teaching examples that you can modify to match your teaching style and your students' language abilities. Using a communicative approach, students participate in the activities during class while practicing English with their classmates. Adding game-based methods like this in your lessons will naturally increase students' motivation, participation, and communication using the target language. Whether you are a new teacher or are an experienced instructor, this book will help save you hours of preparation time. As a result, you can devote more time to helping your students achieve their learning and language goals. What Other Teachers Say About the Book The creative games and activities outlined in this book are a must for any second language teaching professional! -- Craig Hoffman This is a must-have volume that helps teachers make ESL fun. Chock-full of useful games and overflowing with fantastic resources, I'll be adding this to my library and using it in my classroom regularly. -- Shon Rand As they say in teaching, have a plan, and then have a plan B! Games and activities like those in Paul's book will help to make sure you're prepared to keep your class engaged and having fun. Thank you for putting this together and supporting the ESL teaching community! -- Brett Isis As an educator who loves making learning fun for students, and admittedly, myself too, I know fun when I see it, and Paul's games are just that! With his new book, you'll have ideas for days to get your students excited to demonstrate what they've learned. -- Taiwanda Bason Learners learn best when they are having fun. By using these activities to gamify your lessons, students will be more excited to participate in class. These games will help capture your students' interests and motivate them to be more engaged and inspired to learn! -- Lindsey Clifford Games like these are a great way to keep students engaged in the lessons. Even the most disinterested students enjoy a little competition and it can be a good way to energize a class on a slow afternoon. -- Gayle Aggiss Paul Young has come up with a bumper book of ESL games -- a compendium of 50 activities that will become a useful tool in any teacher's arsenal to keep their students engaged with learning English as a second language. -- Dr. Rob Burton What I love about this book is that it contains many of the classic ESL games that are essential for any newbie teacher as well as some original ideas for even the most experienced of teachers which I am excited to try. The activities are suitable for a variety of learner styles and needs and can work with any class size, level, or age group. -- Georgie Snape These fun and creative games encourage learners to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom or online. They encourage active learning which is crucial for ESL learners and makes learning fun, engaging, and memorable. -- Kirstie Woodward |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games for Kids and Adults Paul Young, 2021-07-22 ESL Games for Kids and Adults Learn how to enhance your lessons with a collection of fun interactive games for teaching English in any context. The activities outlined inside this book have been adapted from popular board games, TV game shows, and party games for all ages. * Easily integrate core language skills in all of your classes -- either online or in the classroom. * The flexible format allows you to customize your lessons to focus on specific skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. * Every activity includes real teaching examples that you can modify to match your teaching style and your students' language abilities. * Using a communicative approach, students participate in the activities during class while practicing English with their classmates. * Adding game-based methods like this in your lessons will naturally increase students' motivation, participation, and communication using the target language. * These ESL activities will save you hours of preparation so that you can devote more time to helping your students achieve their learning goals. Teachers' Comments About the Book The creative games and activities outlined in this book are a must for any second language teaching professional! -- Craig Hoffman, Teacher and Writer in Japan This is a must-have volume that helps teachers make ESL fun. Chock-full of useful games and overflowing with fantastic resources, I'll be adding this to my library and using it in my classroom regularly. -- Shon Rand, Taught in the UAE, Russia, China, and the USA As they say in teaching, have a plan, and then have a plan B! Games and activities like those in Paul's book will help to make sure you're prepared to keep your class engaged and having fun. Thank you for putting this together and supporting the ESL teaching community! -- Brett Isis, CEO of Teaching Nomad (teachingnomad.com) As an educator who loves making learning fun for students, and admittedly, myself too, I know fun when I see it, and Paul's games are just that! With his new book, you'll have ideas for days to get your students excited to demonstrate what they've learned. -- Taiwanda Bason, Taught in the USA, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Peru, and China Learners learn best when they are having fun. By using these activities to gamify your lessons, students will be more excited to participate in class. These games will help capture your students' interests and motivate them to be more engaged and inspired to learn! -- Lindsey Clifford, Taught in South Korea Games like these are a great way to keep students engaged in the lessons. Even the most disinterested students enjoy a little competition and it can be a good way to energize a class on a slow afternoon. -- Gayle Aggiss, Taught in China, Vietnam, and Online Paul Young has come up with a bumper book of ESL games -- a compendium of 50 activities that will become a useful tool in any teacher's arsenal to keep their students engaged with learning English as a second language. -- Dr. Rob Burton, Teaching in China What I love about this book is that it contains many of the classic ESL games that are essential for any newbie teacher as well as some original ideas for even the most experienced of teachers which I am excited to try. -- Georgie Snape, CELTA-certified ESL trainer and owner of Teacher's Friend (teach-vietnam.com) These fun and creative games encourage learners to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom or online. They encourage active learning which is crucial for ESL learners and makes learning fun, engaging, and memorable. -- Kirstie Woodward, Taught in Thailand, Vietnam, the UK, and Online |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games and Classroom Activities PH. D. Lucia Gorea, Lucia Gorea, 2005 Reproducible exercises to sharpen skills and raise achievement. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Classroom Activities for Teens and Adults Shelley Ann Vernon, 2012-07-09 Fluency activities and grammar drills, EFL and ESL students. 175 ideas to make learning English fun and effective, Engage and motivate your students, games and quizzes for all levels. --Cover. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games for the Classroom Michael DiGiacomo, 2018-09-11 Every lesson needs a conversation starter. Whether you want to warm up a class, emphasize a particular grammar or vocabulary lesson, or wrap things up with a fun twist, ESL Games for the Classroom offers interactive classroom activities that require little or no prep work to make learning fun. Quick and easy to set-up, the activities in this book offer engaging ways to use class time effectively. With clear organization by skill and level, ESL Games for the Classroom is the go-to teacher's companion for adding educational games to any agenda--Page 4 of cover. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games for Teens & Adults Marc Roche, 2019-12-25 ESL Games for Teens & Adults: No Prep ESL Games for the Classroom. Perfect Teaching Materials for TEFL Lesson Plans (Games, Warmers & Fillers)These ESL games and instant conversation worksheets can be adapted to suit any level, objective and age as warmers, introductions, review activities or fillers to provide language practice and opportunities for feedback. They have been tried and tested in ESL classrooms all over the world with great success. Whether you're teaching children, teens or adults, knowing some good classroom activities is a must for any TESOL teacher. However interesting your lessons are, there will always be a point where students get bored of writing and listening - so having something prepared which will get them talking, laughing and even moving around will help them to stay engaged. Informal exercises are also an important way to get students comfortable with speaking and listening, and can help to put vocabulary and grammar into a practical context. While planned activities are important, it's also always worth having a few quick and easy games in mind in case you have time left over at the end of a lesson - so from quick games to creative projects, here are some of the best activities suitable for students at every level. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Teacher's Activities Kit Elizabeth Claire, 1998 Easy-to-use language-generating activities to increase the motivation & participation of English-as-a-Second-Language students. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL MAGIC GAMES. FOR KINDERGARTEN Jenny White, 2022-05-15 This book will help you master “classroom magic” – ESL games that engage ALL your students into learning English and turn ANY class into a perfect one, with all the goals achieved.There are flashcard games, games with a ball and other activities. In the description of every game you will find step-by-step instructions how to make the game “work” for your students.Colourful illustrations and zero preparation time make this book a MUST HAVE for any kindergarten teacher. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL GAMES. FOR TEACHING ONLINE Jenny White, 2021-07-29 This book contains 20 ESL games for teaching online effectively in Zoom or Skype without using other platforms. Ice-breakers, warmers, memory games and other activities for all levels from complete beginner to upper-intermediate will help your students improve grammar, vocabulary, speaking and spelling skills.The games can easily be adapted to larger and smaller groups. Step-by-step instructions and ZERO preparation time make this book a MUST-HAVE for any ESL teacher. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Conversation Games & Activities For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2024-09-30 It's time to find some fresh, new ideas for English conversation classes for teens and adults! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your conversation or speaking classes. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decades of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless TEFL conversation games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In ESL Conversation Games & Activities For Teenagers and Adults, you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting ESL conversation activities your students will love! Buy ESL Conversation Games & Activities For Teenagers and Adults to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: My Dear English Samuel Nathan, 2017-09-11 MY DEAR ENGLISH Over 100 ESL Games and Activities to Make Learning Easy and Bring Fun in the Classroom Games and fun activities in class is an important part of teaching ESL. Playing games is a fun way to help students make connections between words and grammar. These connections makes it easy in building language skills. These ESL games can help both native and foreign speakers of English improve their language ability. Playing games in class also helps to improve attention, build interaction, increase energy levels, and increase confidence. Also shy or quiet students begin to open up and speak English when playing games in class, these tried and tested games provide practice in reading, writing, listening and speaking. The games are also categorized to help you easily find the type of game you are looking for. There are games for young learners, teenagers and adults. No matter how old your students are, you will find an ESL game that is just right for you These ESL games can be very useful to introduce new vocabulary, practice words or language structures, teach or practice English grammar, improve pronunciation or listening skills. You can also use these games to warm up the class when the lesson begins, during the lesson to re-energize the class after dealing with a difficult subject or at the end of class to finish on a positive note and round off the lesson. |
| esl games and activities for adults: The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide Larry Ferlazzo, Katie Hull Sypnieski, 2012-08-06 A much-needed resource for teaching English to all learners The number of English language learners in U.S. schools is projected to grow to twenty-five percent by 2025. Most teachers have English learners in their classrooms, from kindergarten through college. The ESL/ELL Teacher?s Survival Guide offers educators practical strategies for setting up an ESL-friendly classroom, motivating and interacting with students, communicating with parents of English learners, and navigating the challenges inherent in teaching ESL students. Provides research-based instructional techniques which have proven effective with English learners at all proficiency levels Offers thematic units complete with reproducible forms and worksheets, sample lesson plans, and sample student assignments The book?s ESL lessons connect to core standards and technology applications This hands-on resource will give all teachers at all levels the information they need to be effective ESL instructors. |
| esl games and activities for adults: The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual Andromeda Jones, 2016-09-21 The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual is the complete guide on how to teach English through controlled speaking activities (rather than traditional textbooks) which mimics how we learnt our native language as children but in a condensed period of time.--Back cover. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Worksheets and Activities for Kids Miryung Pitts, 2014-09-30 This teaching resource book is suitable for children in elementary school aged 6 to 10 who are learning English at a beginner to intermediate level, but it's also great for native English speaking children who are in kindergarten. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 101 ESL Activities Jackie Bolen, 2020-09-28 Have better ESL classes for teenagers and adults. It's time to find some fresh, new ideas for teaching English! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your conversation & speaking, writing, reading, listening or grammar classes. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie and Jennifer are here to help. During their decades of experience teaching English, authors Jackie Bolen and Jennifer Booker Smith have developed countless games and activities for their students. They're sharing their low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. These are the activities that they use in their own classes! In 101 ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults, you'll get a ton of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. The helpful teaching tips will help you avoid common pitfalls. Pick up a copy of the book if you want to... Add some variety into English classes Have students coming back for more! See happy, smiling faces Help students improve their English skills in a big way Save time when planning lessons If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, this book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! This is the first book in the ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults series by Jackie Bolen. Buy 101 ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Conversation Questions for Kids Jackie Bolen, 2021-04-24 Have better English conversation and speaking classes with children today! In ESL Conversation Questions for Kids, you'll find more than 50 conversation topics suitable for English learners, each with a set of 15 engaging, interactive questions that'll get your students talking. They are designed for kids who know a little bit of vocabulary already. This book is perfect for those situations when you want to get an interesting discussion going but are out of inspiration. Keep a copy on your phone to pull out in case you need some fresh, new ideas. They're ideal for a warm-up or for a longer, free-talking time at the end of a themed lesson. Author Jackie Bolen is sharing her great ideas for English conversation questions with English teachers throughout the world. She's a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher with more than 15 years of experience in the classroom. These are the question lists that she uses with her own students. Pick up a copy of the book if you want to... Have more interesting English conversation classes with kids Engage students with great questions See happy, smiling faces in your classes Save time when planning lessons Have a resource to use in case of emergency It's the perfect solution to a last-minute class that you haven't had time to prep for! Or for classes where students want to do lots of free-talking, including private lessons. Avoid the chit-chat about the usual things and instead opt for something more interesting. These TEFL conversation questions for children will get students talking, guaranteed! Buy the book today to have better English classes tomorrow. |
| esl games and activities for adults: Digital Games in Language Learning and Teaching Hayo Reinders, 2012-06-12 This edited volume explores how digital games have the potential to engage learners both within and outside the classroom and to encourage interaction in the target language. This is the first dedicated collection of papers to bring together state-of-the-art research in game-based learning. |
| esl games and activities for adults: New Ways in Teaching with Games Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov, Randall Sadler, 2020-02-21 For young learners to adults, New Ways in Teaching with Games offers over 90 fresh activities ? each with video instruction ? that involve play and games that will enrich your EFL and ESL classrooms. This innovative volumeIntroduces traditional, online, and commercial games and explainshow they can be used to practice language; Illustrates games that can reinforce language across the four skill areas, and encourage both culturally and pragmaticallyappropriate language productions; and Enriches language classrooms with a variety of innovative, leaner-friendly games that are seamlessly tied to language practice. Using gamification for your ESL classroom turns repetitive exercises into meaningful and fun activities! The activities are broken down by topic including: Traditional Pencil and Paper Games; Dice Games; Board Games; Card Games; Technology-Mediated Games: Online, Apps, and More; Miscellaneous Games. Video instructions included for each activity! |
| esl games and activities for adults: 71 ESL Interactive Games, Activities & Teaching Tips Jackie Bolen, 2020-06-10 Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh, new ideas that are interactive, engaging and student-centred to use in your ESL/EFL/TEFL classes. Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your English classes for beginners, intermediate or advanced students. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decade of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her interactive, low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In 71 ESL Interactive Games, Activities & Teaching Tips: For Teenagers and Adults, you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! It's easier than ever to have more interactive classes for teenagers and adults today. Buy the book to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: 71 ESL Interactive Games, Activities & Teaching Tips: For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2020-06-15 Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh, new ideas that are interactive, engaging and student-centred to use in your ESL/EFL/TEFL classes. Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your English classes for beginners, intermediate or advanced students. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decade of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her interactive, low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In 71 ESL Interactive Games, Activities & Teaching Tips: For Teenagers and Adults, you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! It's easier than ever to have more interactive classes for teenagers and adults today. Buy the book to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: Esl Games for Preschool Shelley Ann Vernon, 2017-09-17 Yes! Preschool children can learn to speak English. Be a fun and effective teacher with these adaptable games for preschoolers learning English. Includes bonus chapter on teaching toddlers. Would you like to have happy preschoolers who love learning English with you ? Now you can. Be that fun, successful teacher you want to be with ESL Games for Preschool. Preschool children forget things so quickly and have such a short attention span, it might seem unrealistic to be teaching them English as a second or foreign language. Now you can drill your pupils in new vocabulary and grammar for as long as it takes and they won't be bored, they will love you and your lessons! They will gain confidence in speaking and remember what you teach them. With the help of numerous teachers writing in with feedback over the years, Shelley Ann Vernon has created a fabulous collection of fun, easy ESL games for preschool and kindergarten. This is a great book for the staff room bookshelf, and for any ESL teacher out there who wants get results with preschoolers and prepare fun lessons quickly. What you will get from this book: Easier, faster lesson planning How to keep your pupils interested Fun language drills for learning new vocabulary and grammar Fun ways to have all the children speaking as much as possible during lessons Classroom management tips and naughty children Games for listening and speaking skills Rhymes, finger plays and activities for songs And you may even become a more popular teacher It can be a challenge learning to teach, or changing your teaching style but, using one new game a day, you will soon become the inspirational teacher you really want to be. Getting Your FREE Bonus Inside this book is access to a bonus chapter on teaching toddlers. All these toddler tips are useful at preschool too. Buy your copy of ESL Games for Preschool by scrolling up and clicking Buy Now With 1-Click. |
| esl games and activities for adults: FunRetrospectives: Activities and Ideas for Making Agile Retrospectives More Engaging Tainã Caetano Coimbra, Paulo Caroli, 2020-08-21 FunRetrospectives is a book with the necessary tools to develop the main element of continuous improvement: an effective, committed team! With several years working with agile teams, Paulo Caroli and Tainã Caetano Coimbra know there are two main ingredients to finding the path to success and continuous improvement. First, a team that is aligned and committed to the project. Second, a work environment that fosters collaboration, one in which everyone can openly reflect, debate, and learn. But how can we achieve that? Each person in a team brings a different life experience and perspective, and we know that a group of people doesn't become a team overnight. That's why the main purpose of this work is to offer the necessary activities and tools to make everyone comfortable, aligned, and ready to be part of the best possible experience. The authors have gathered years of experience in this book, offering simple and straightforward activities. There will always be ups and downs, but everything that happens is essential for the team's growth, and a fun, safe environment allows you to get the best out of every situation. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 39 ESL Vocabulary Activities Jackie Bolen, Jennifer Booker Smith, 2015-11-29 It is possible to teach vocabulary to kids in an interesting, engaging and fun way! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more vocabulary activities for your classes. If you're tired of wading through the junk on the Internet to find the one activity or game you can actually use, then Jackie and Jennifer are here to help. During their 20 years teaching English, they've developed countless games and activities for their students. Now, they're sharing their favourite ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In 39 ESL Vocabulary Activities for Teenagers and adults, you'll get over three-dozen ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. These clearly and concisely explained vocabulary activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie and Jennifer's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Buy 39 ESL Vocabulary Activities: For Kids (7+) to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! Make your classes even more awesome! |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Speaking Activities Marc Roche, 2020-08-11 About this ESL conversation book for adults: ESL speaking activities for busy teachersMake your TEFL lesson planning easierESL Speaking Activities: The Ultimate Book for Busy English Teachers. Intermediate to Advanced Conversation Book for Adults is jam-packed full of speaking cards, worksheets and conversation cards to whip out whenever you want and make your TEFL lesson plans instantly easier. It includes 100+ instant games & activities for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Online & Offline. Speaking is often the most intimidating part of English for many students, and it can be daunting as a teacher, when your students won't speak in class out of shyness or reluctance. This conversation book for adults will give you the tools needed to get students speaking, which will make your classes both more enjoyable and more productive! In the Phrasal Verbs section of this book, you'll find grammar and vocabulary hand-outs before each set of speaking questions. You can do some of these handouts in class, or you can set them as homework if you prefer. They are ideal for preparing students for exams such as the Cambridge Business English exams, and other Cambridge exams like First Certificate and Advanced CAE, as well as IELTS and TOEFL. All the worksheets and ESL conversation cards can be photocopied and used in the classroom and can be adapted to classroom games and warmers. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 39 ESL Review Games and Activities: For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2020-08-20 Do you want to make your English classes awesome and cut review lesson prep time in half? You'll need to pick up a copy of 39 ESL Review Games and Activities. Many of your students think that review classes are boring and with good reason. They often are! But, they don't have to be! Effective review games and activities are a valuable teaching tool because language is learned mainly through repetition. However, finding good review activities takes time, a scarce resource for most teachers. That's what makes 39 ESL Review Games so valuable. The activities and games help your students review English grammar and vocabulary while reducing prep time, so you can focus on other important teaching tasks. This book will make your classes awesome and will save you time, guaranteed. Authors and teachers Jackie Bolen and Jennifer Booker Smith have a combined 30 years in the ESL classroom. They are sharing their ideas, teaching tips & tricks, and ESL activities & games with English teachers throughout the world. Their goal is to help you make your lessons better! If you want some fun, engaging, and useful review games and activities that your students will love, 39 ESL Review Games is for you! Pick up your copy today. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 129 ESL Games and Activities For Teens Jackie Bolen, 2023-09-28 It's time for new games and activities for ESL classes for teenagers! Whether you're a first-time TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more low-prep ESL activities and games for your classes for teens. During her 20 years of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep ideas for teens with ESL teachers throughout the world. These are the games and activities that she uses in her own classes every single day! In 129 ESL Games and Activities for Teens, you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. The teaching tips will help you avoid common pitfalls. Pick up a copy of the book today if you want to... Have better English ESL classes with teenagers Save time when planning lessons See happy, smiling faces in your classes Help students improve their English skills Have students who want to keep coming back for more! If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Buy 129 ESL Games and Activities for Teens to get lesson plans for conversation classes ready to go in no time! |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Classroom Activities for Teens and Adults Shelley Ann Vernon, 2012 Make your ESL teaching a complete success & FREE BONUS Now you can make teaching and learning English fun again. Stop spending so much time preparing lessons! Enjoy what you do best, being in the classroom. Your free time is your own time, save your energy for the students. Now you can have a classroom full of attentive and excited students using ESL Classroom Games and Activities for Teens and Adults. After years of teaching and ten years of writing, Shelley Ann Vernon has prepared a fun-filled book of classroom activities for ESL teachers. Pump some energy into your classroom and get your students talking, even the shy ones. ESL Classroom Activities for Teens and Adults is a great resource for schools. Schedules are jam-packed but with this book teachers won't need to plan their next lesson during lunch. It's also great for new teachers who are nervous or overwhelmed. Each classroom is unique and this book is full of variants to cater for your group sizes and levels of English. Shelley has taught all levels of English. She also draws on the experience of many other teachers who have contributed to the book. This updated edition is a rich and varied selection of activities to make your classroom dynamic and fun. Learn how to: Make learning fun Make your students feel more confident speaking English Help students learn and remember new vocabulary and grammar easily Have more motivated students And even become a more popular teacher This book will help you avoid some teaching pitfalls and help you become the effective, fun teacher you want to be. Getting Your FREE Bonus Inside this book is access to a 70-page printable appendix of ready-made templates for some more elaborate games. Print and go! That said most of the games don't need any printing or preparation, but for those that do, templates are provided with this bonus to save you time. Buy your copy of ESL Classroom Games and Activities for Teens and Adults by scrolling up and clicking Buy Now on Kobo. |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Classroom Games: 180 Educational Games and Activities for Teaching ESL/EFL Students Louis McKinney, 2020-02-08 It's time to make both teaching English and learning English fun and engaging again. Be a successful and effective teacher with ESL Classroom Games, a book that is jam-packed with 180 challenging English language games and activities. ________________________________ The book features a wide variety of reading, writing, speaking and listening games and activities which are suitable for teen and adult learners alike. You will enhance your teaching arsenal with focus on warm-up, repetition and drilling, team-based, spelling and grammar, speaking and pronunciation, memory and concentration, turn-based and one-on-one games. It's broken down into games for beginner, intermediate and advanced level students. The activities are specifically designed to improve students' motivation, confidence, enjoyment, language retention and have been proven to get better results. And the best part is that as the students focus on playing, you will be presented with the perfect opportunity to drill, and recap grammar and vocabulary from your lesson. INCREASE STUDENT ENTHUSIASM AND PARTICIPATION Well now you can boost the energy of your classroom and get all of the students active and speaking, even the shy ones. Every teacher knows that students are prone to forget elements of what they have been taught in the previous lesson, and how it can be frustrating. With this book you won't have to worry about your teachings going in one ear and out the other because it solves that issue by making learning, drilling and repetition fun. With assistance and feedback from a variety of experienced, and qualified English teachers, Andrew William has put together an excellent collection of ESL games and activities for the classroom that has already received a great deal of acclaim from schools around the world, and have sold over 5,000 copies since 2017. SAVE TIME ON LESSON PLANNING Additionally, this book will ease the pressures of a busy schedule and eliminate planning those tricky lesson plans during your next lunch break by using this activity-filled resource. Save time planning, free up your personal time and preserve your energy for the classroom. After all, teaching is what you do best, so use this aid to increase your students' capacity and eagerness for learning. ________________________________ Here is what you will get from this book: Easier, quicker lesson planning 180 fun language games and activities for learning English Assistance with enhancing students' confidence and motivation Games for reading, writing, speaking and listening Make learning fun again Ready-to-use classroom management strategies and activities Increase your popularity and relationship with your students And much, much more! Read on your PC, MAC, smart phone, tablet, Kindle device or buy it on paperback. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 63 ESL Holiday Games & Activities Jackie Bolen, 2021-03-23 Have better ESL/EFL classes with kids, teenagers and adults with these fun and engaging holiday activities. It's time to find some fresh, new ideas for Halloween, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, Thanksgiving & Easter! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your English classes. If you're tired of wasting your precious time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decades of experience teaching English around the world, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers. These are the activities that she uses in her own classes! In 63 ESL Holiday Games & Activities, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for holiday-focused speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary activities to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. Pick up a copy of the book if you want to... Have better English lessons with young learners, teenagers and adults Save a ton of time when planning lessons Help students improve their English skills in a big way See lots of happy, smiling faces in your classes Add some variety into English classes with fun holiday lessons If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, this book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Buy 63 ESL Holiday Games & Activities to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes for fun holiday TEFL classes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Classroom Games Denise Scott, Louis McKinney, 2017-01-20 It's time to make both teaching English and learning English fun and engaging again. Be a successful and effective teacher with ESL Classroom Games, a book that is jam-packed with 180 challenging English language games and activities. ________________________________ The book features a wide variety of reading, writing, speaking and listening games and activities which are suitable for teen and adult learners alike. You will enhance your teaching arsenal with focus on warm-up, repetition and drilling, team-based, spelling and grammar, speaking and pronunciation, memory and concentration, turn-based and one-on-one games. It's broken down into games for beginner, intermediate and advanced level students. The activities are specifically designed to improve students' motivation, confidence, enjoyment, language retention and have been proven to get better results. And the best part is that as the students focus on playing, you will be presented with the perfect opportunity to drill, and recap grammar and vocabulary from your lesson. INCREASE STUDENT ENTHUSIASM AND PARTICIPATION Well now you can boost the energy of your classroom and get all of the students active and speaking, even the shy ones. Every teacher knows that students are prone to forget elements of what they have been taught in the previous lesson, and how it can be frustrating. With this book you won't have to worry about your teachings going in one ear and out the other because it solves that issue by making learning, drilling and repetition fun. With assistance and feedback from a variety of experienced, and qualified English teachers, Andrew William has put together an excellent collection of ESL games and activities for the classroom that has already received a great deal of acclaim from schools around the world, and have sold over 5,000 copies since 2017. SAVE TIME ON LESSON PLANNING Additionally, this book will ease the pressures of a busy schedule and eliminate planning those tricky lesson plans during your next lunch break by using this activity-filled resource. Save time planning, free up your personal time and preserve your energy for the classroom. After all, teaching is what you do best, so use this aid to increase your students' capacity and eagerness for learning. ________________________________ Here is what you will get from this book: Easier, quicker lesson planning 180 fun language games and activities for learning English Assistance with enhancing students' confidence and motivation Games for reading, writing, speaking and listening Make learning fun again Ready-to-use classroom management strategies and activities Increase your popularity and relationship with your students And much, much more! Read on your PC, MAC, smart phone, tablet, Kindle device or buy it on paperback. |
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| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Games & Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten Jackie Bolen, 2024-10-17 Fresh, new ideas for English lessons for very young children! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your English classes for kindy and preschool kids. Pick up this English teaching material books if you want to... Have better English lessons with very young learners Save a ton of time when planning lessons Help students improve their English skills in a big way See lots of happy, smiling faces in your classes Try out some fun classroom games Add some variety to English classes In ESL Games & Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and more to use in your classroom. The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're out of new ideas, this book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Have some fun with these games to learn English. Buy ESL Games & Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten: Fun Ideas for Teaching English to Very Young Learners to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 102 ESL Games and Activities for Kids Miles Jaworski, 2015-02-27 102 ESL Games and Activities for Kids gives you the essential resources you need to teach young learners effectively from day one. Inside, are a range of dynamic ESL activities, ESL icebreakers and ESL games that will enable you to give fun, interactive lessons, keeping your young students happy and focused. Each ESL exercise is clearly explained and complete with examples where necessary. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 39 ESL Review Games and Activities Jackie Bolen, Jennifer Booker Smith, 2016-06-10 Make English classes awesome and cut review lesson prep time in half with 39 ESL Review Games and Activities for Kids (6-13). Many of your students think that review classes are boring and with good reason. They often are! But, they don't have to be! Effective review games and activities are a valuable teaching tool because language is learned mainly through repetition. However, finding good review activities takes time, a scarce resource for most teachers. That's what makes 39 ESL Review Games so valuable. It helps your students review English grammar and vocabulary while reducing prep time, so you can focus on other important teaching tasks. This book will make your classes awesome and will save you time, guaranteed. This book is part of the Teaching ESL/EFL to Children series. Pick up a copy of the book if you want to . . . Have better English classes for children Reinforce key concepts that you've taught See happy, smiling faces in your classes Improve your teaching If you want some fun, engaging, and useful review games and activities that your students will love, 39 ESL Review Games and Activities for Kids (6-13) is for you! |
| esl games and activities for adults: Last Minute, No-Prep ESL Classroom Games & Activities Jackie Bolen, 2024-10-16 Make teaching easier with this book filled with ESL games and activities that require no prep, no materials and no textbook. The odds are very high that you've finished a class too early, or something you thought would take twenty minutes only took two. Maybe you planned a game for ten students but only one showed up so your plan won't work. Then there are the 'fun' challenges that happen when the school administration tells you there's a new class to teach starting three minutes from now. It's a lifesaver! What can a teacher do when ten to fifteen (or more) expectant faces are looking at you but you're not sure how to fill the time? Well, you're going to pull out some of these no prep, no materials, no textbook games and activities and get to work! No Time Fillers! The activities in this book have a ton of educational value to them and get way beyond just filling class minutes. They're student-centred, engaging, fun and your students will love them. Ideal for all Ages and Levels. Most teachers don't just teach one single level or age group. This book has activities for elementary school kids to adults and for beginners to advanced. The activities are divided by both skill and level, so you'll be able to find what you're looking for in seconds!' Break the Chains! Another bonus of this book is that you can break the chain between you and the photocopier! Stop wasting your time dealing with jams and finding more paper-instead spend time doing the stuff you really need to do as a busy teacher. Increase Student Talking Time. The goal of all English teachers should be to increase student talking (or writing, listening or reading) time in their classes. This helps students improve their skills in a big way. All the activities in this book are designed to do that. If you want to see some big results for your students, then pick up this book! For New and Experienced Teachers. Whether you've been teaching for a while in a few different countries, or are fresh off the plane, you're sure to pick up some tips, tricks and activity ideas that you can use in your classroom today. Not just today, but in the next 30 seconds! Get ready to make your classroom more exciting and enjoyable while reducing your preparation and planning time in a big way! Buy your copy today! |
| esl games and activities for adults: ESL Classroom Games: 180 Educational Games and Activities for Teaching ESL/EFL Students Andrew William, 2017-01-20 It's time to make teaching and learning English both fun and engaging again. Be a successful and effective teacher with ESL Classroom Games that is jam-packed with 180 challenging English language games and activities.The book features a wide variety of reading, writing, speaking and listening games and activities which are suitable for teen and adult learners alike. With focus on warm-up, repetition and drilling, team-based, spelling and grammar, speaking and pronunciation, memory and concentration, turn-based and one-on-one games. It's broken down into games for beginner, intermediate and advanced students which are designed to improve students' motivation, confidence, enjoyment, language retention and get better results. And the best part is that whilst the students are happily focusing on playing; you can drill them with as much vocabulary and grammar as you like without them realising just how much they are learning. Do you want to increase the level of student involvement? Well now you can boost the energy of your classroom and get all of the students participating and speaking, even the more shy ones. Every teacher knows that students are prone to forget everything that you taught them in the previous lesson and how frustrating that can be. With this book you won't have to worry about your teachings going in one ear and out the other because it solves that issue by making learning, drilling and repetition fun. With assistance and feedback from a variety of experienced English teachers, Andrew William has put together an excellent collection of ESL games for the classroom that has already received a great deal of acclaim from schools around the world. A lifesaver?Additionally, this book will enable you as the teacher to ease the pressure of a busy schedule and eliminate planning those pesky lesson plans during your next lunch break by using this activity-filled resource. Save time planning, free up your own time and preserve your energy for the classroom. After all, this is where you do what you do best and where you will benefit the students most. Here is what you will get from this book: Easier, quicker lesson planning 180 fun language games and activities for learning English Assistance with enhancing students' confidence and motivation Games for reading, writing, speaking and listening Make learning fun Ready-to-use classroom management strategies and activities Increase your popularity and relationship with your students And much, much more! Read on your PC, MAC, smart phone, tablet, Kindle device or buy it on paperback. |
| esl games and activities for adults: 49 ESL Conversation Games & Activities: For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2020-06-19 Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas for English conversation classes! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your conversation or speaking classes. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decade of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless TEFL conversation games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world. In 49 ESL Conversation Games and Activities, you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting ESL conversation activities your students will love! Buy the book to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: 79 ESL Activities, Games & Teaching Tips for Big Classes (20+ Students): For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2020-06-20 Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas for big English classes! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your TEFL classes with more than 20 students. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decade of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world that are perfect for larger classes. In 79 ESL Activities, Games & Teaching Tips for Big Classes (20+ Students), you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Buy the book to get new lesson plans for large English classes ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: 79 ESL Activities, Games & Teaching Tips for Big Classes (20+ Students) Jackie Bolen, 2020-06-15 Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas for big English classes! Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for your TEFL classes with more than 20 students. If you're tired of wasting time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help. During her decade of experience as a CELTA/DELTA certified teacher, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas with ESL teachers throughout the world that are perfect for larger classes. In 79 ESL Activities, Games & Teaching Tips for Big Classes (20+ Students), you'll get dozens of ideas to use in your own classroom. The highly-detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. Jackie's clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students. If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, Jackie's book makes it easy to try out new and exciting activities your students will love! Buy the book to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes! |
| esl games and activities for adults: 39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults Jackie Bolen, 2020-09-28 Teach fun, effective one-on-one English lessons for teenagers or adults with these engaging and interactive ESL games and activities. Are you tired of spending too much time planning one-on-one, private ESL lessons, only to end up wishing that the clock would move faster? Do you find that students drop off after only a lesson or two? How much time, energy, and stress could you save with dozens of student-centred activities at your fingertips which could easily be used to teach the material of your choice? The authors, Jackie Bolen and Jennifer Booker Smith, have over 25 years of combined experience teaching and creating materials for fun ESL classes. They have spent countless hours creating original materials and compiling useful and enjoyable activities for use with all kinds of classes. These are the things they use in their own private lessons for teenagers and adults. Pick up a copy of the book if you want to... Have better private tutoring classes Add some variety into lessons Have students coming back for more of your classes! Save time on lesson planning See happy, smiling students! This book gives you the inside scoop on one-on-one lessons both you and your students will enjoy. With its broad variety of activities across the four skills, you are sure to find exactly what you need, saving countless hours of preparation. If you have thought about creating a profitable sideline with tutoring but were unsure of what to do in your lessons, this book has everything you need! This is the fourth book in the ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults series by Jackie Bolen. Buy your copy of 39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities today to have better one-on-one classes tomorrow! |
ESL games and activities for adults
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17 Engaging ESL Activities for Adults - DoTEFL
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Discover the best ESL games for adults, and learn how to use them in your English class. Helpful tips to maximise effectiveness and student engagement.
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2 Sep 2024 · Explore engaging ESL speaking activities for adults to boost fluency and confidence. Perfect for ESL classes, including debates, role plays, & more.
ESL games and activities for adults
Discover a wide range of ESL games and activities designed for teaching English to adults. Explore our resources to find engaging and effective ways to teach grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and conversation skills.
17 Engaging ESL Activities for Adults - DoTEFL
27 Aug 2024 · Discover 17 engaging ESL activities for adults to improve speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills. Enhance your student’s English proficiency with practical, fun, and effective exercises designed for adult learners.
19 of The Best ESL Games for Adults - DoTEFL
3 Sep 2024 · As an EFL or ESL teacher, you can turn beloved adult games, like beer pong, into classroom-friendly games that help adult learners memorize vocabulary and practice their language skills. Games and activities are a really powerful tool in language acquisition.
15 Best ESL Games for Adults - English Teaching Resources
Discover the best ESL games for adults, and learn how to use them in your English class. Helpful tips to maximise effectiveness and student engagement.
20 Best ESL Speaking Activities for Adults
2 Sep 2024 · Explore engaging ESL speaking activities for adults to boost fluency and confidence. Perfect for ESL classes, including debates, role plays, & more.
23 ESL Speaking Activities for Adults - FluentU
1 Jul 2015 · ESL activities for adults are a great way to build your students' speaking confidence. Read this guide to find out about 23 great activities, including "Sentence Auction,” “Video Dictionary,” “Running Dictation," “News Brief" and more.
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13 Nov 2023 · Icebreaker games are more than just fun activities; they are essential tools that foster a positive learning environment in second language adult classes. These games help in breaking down barriers, building confidence, and enhancing language skills in a relaxed and supportive setting.
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67 Free ESL Games for Teaching English. This list of free ESL games will add a bit of fun to your classroom. The best part? All you have to do is: Download. Print. Teach. If you’re looking for ESL games for children, they’re at the top of the list. ESL games for adults are at the bottom. Use it today in your classroom.
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28 Dec 2020 · We have researched English Speaking Games and activities for all levels, backgrounds and ages of students. Activities like the ''Yes/No game. Call My Bluff, On Call'' can all be scaled to address students needs.
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29 Sep 2024 · 1. Vocabulary Showcase Game Show. Best for: Big groups; communication. In the Vocabulary Showcase Game Show, students will learn new words through firsthand communication. Students must explain the chosen word to …
