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Vocabulary
Essential Time Expressions
Common time expressions that students often misunderstand or are unaware of
20 fun ways to teach kids body vocab
Games and other ideas for teaching the useful and fun topic of body parts vocab to kids
The ATONIN Time Pyramid
The ATONIN Time Pyramid can help people remember which preposition – at, on or in – to use with hours, days, months, years, etc.
Picture dictionary games and activities
Successful ideas for using picture dictionaries for fun activities with your students.
Problems, solutions and variations with hangman in EFL
Hangman is a game in which students try to guess what letters are in the word before a complete picture of their man getting hanged appears, with one element of the man and scaffold being added for each time they choose a letter that isn’t in the word. It is popular with native speaker children, [...]
Fun ways of practising country and nationality words
1. Word roots dictation The teacher reads out a list of words that originally come from a particular language, e.g. words that come from French and are now used in English, using their English pronunciation. The teacher should start with obscure ones and get more and more obvious until they reach words that are obviously [...]
Fun practice activities for there is, are, was, were
1. The worst school in the world Students compare their primary schools, with the aim of showing that their school was worse than their partners’, leading to sentences like “There was a swimming pool, but there was only cold water in
Fun practice activities for family vocabulary
1. Men and women stations The teacher or one of the students says a family relations word like “mother-in-law” or “grandfather”, and students run and touch the right wall if it is a female word or the left wall if it is a male word. Less noisy versions include jumping right or left of a [...]
Fun Ways to Teach Young Children Vocabulary
As language teachers with more or less teaching experience, we have often wondered how we can better educate our pupils so that they gain self-confidence speaking their second language, as well as being able to read, write and even more important speak it. In fact the answer is found when we ask another common question: [...]
15 more ways of eliciting vocabulary
1. Mime/ gestures The communication survival technique of gesturing can also easily be adapted to classroom elicitation, especially easily for action verbs, but also feelings, other adjectives etc. You might want to check that the gestures you want to use are culturally appropriate, especially that they will not be misinterpreted or even found offensive. 2. Pairwork Many [...]
15 real life situations for the language of describing people
…and how to use them in the classroom Many of the activities commonly used with the topic of describing people such as ranking personality words and picture dictations are totally unlike anything we do in real life. Although this doesn’t have to be a bad thing if these are the most effective and fun ways [...]
15 games for the language of describing people
1. Blind date quiz show One person asks questions of 3 to 4 students, who should answer about the person on the photo they have. The person who asked the questions should then decide who would make the best date, and after being shown the photos |
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