Topic: General
Useful classroom language for moving around in class and action games
Category: Classroom Language
Topic: General
This article provides a list of useful phrases for teachers to add action to language classes without the need for L1.
The big list of praising, encouraging and consoling classroom language
Category: Classroom Language
Topic: General
This article provides a list of useful phrases for praising, encouraging, and consoling students in an English class. It emphasises positivity and offers suggestions for effective classroom communication.
Groups of three in EFL classes
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: General
This article explores how to use and benefit from the often awkward situation group work with three students, and provides ideas for activities such as roleplaying, conversational skills, and facilitation.
The big list of discipline classroom language
Category: Classroom Language
Topic: General
This article provides a list of useful phrases for English language teachers to maintain control of a class without using L1. It covers various aspects of classroom management, including dealing with noise, listening, manners, safety and more.
How to use body language and gestures in EFL classes
Category: Body Language and Gestures
Topic: General
An overview of gestures and other body language in English classes, including games and other teaching activities
The big list of classroom language with gestures
Category: Body Language and Gestures
Topic: General
Nearly 100 classroom instructions and explanations that can be accompanied by gestures, with descriptions of how teachers can use their bodies.
52 TPR grammar games
Category: English Grammar
Topic: General
Using Total Physical Response (TPR) games involving movement to practise grammatical forms such as Present Continuous, prepositions and future tenses.
How to teach telling the time in English
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities for "seven o'clock", "nine p.m.", "sixteen hundred hours", etc.
Blocks games for different language points
Category: Teaching English Using Games & Activities
Topic: General
How to use a simple set of stackable blocks to practise a wide range of different grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc including personal questions, colours, numbers, there is/ there are, countable and uncountable, prepositions of position and phonics.
How to teach country and nationality words
Category: Vocabulary
Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for helping students France/ French, Switzerland/ Swiss, etc.
How to use Colouring-in in ESL Classes
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: General
How to usefully, efficiently and productively use colouring in to teach all kinds of language and skills
19 simple, fun and effective ESL board games
Category: Teaching English Using Games & Activities
Topic: General
English teaching board games without dice etc that are more fun and better at practising language than those which need such accoutrements, and with many more possible uses.
Using ball games to teach English
Category: Teaching English Using Games & Activities
Topic: General
Almost 100 ways to use a ball in EFL classes, plus 13 other kinds of objects you can use the same way if don't want to use a ball
How to use the topic of inventions in EFL classes
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: General
New technologies as a stimulating and useful topic for ESP and General English classes.
Olympics Ideas Two: Beyond sports
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Going a little and much further than talking about running, jumping and swimming.
Olympics Ideas Part One: Teaching English for and through Sport
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Teaching the popular topic of sport and using that topic to practise loads of other language.
Different ways of doing a listening
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
The standard way of doing a listening with many small and large variations.
Football and World Cup EFL teaching ideas
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Activities to teach football vocabulary so students understand English language World Cup sources such as TV commentary and news reports, and activities using the World Cup to teach language unconnected to football
Classroom language for arts and crafts
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Useful Classroom Language for making things in class
Activities and topics about the Middle Ages for ESL classes
Category: Teaching English Using Games & Activities
Topic: General
Interesting activities and topics about the Middle Ages for ESL classes
Classroom language for finishing classes
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Useful classroom language for teachers for finishing classes
Prehistory and ancient history for ESL classes
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Interesting activities and topics about prehistory and ancient history for ESL classes
History-themed art, craft and project ideas for ESL students
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Activities for history projects in the ESL classroom
Doing something with Christmas songs
Category: Teaching English Using Games & Activities
Topic: General
How you can use Christmas songs in the classroom - Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar (and putting the grammar back into Xmas)
Putting the Grammar back into Christmas
Category: English Grammar
Topic: General
Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar
Combining Christmas with a Young Learners' Syllabus
Category: Young Learners
Topic: General
How to combine Christmas with a Kindergarten/ Pre-school/ Very Young Learners English Syllabus
Christmas vocabulary you can mime
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Ideas on miming vocab associated with Xmas
Strategies For Remembering
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Strategies to aid adult language students in enhancing their memory for English language tests, including the importance of attitude, organising material and employing various memory techniques.
Cinquan Poetry
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Use Cinquan Poetry in EFL classes to effectively review grammar points like nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
The best picture books for EFL young learners, and what to do with them
Category: Young Learners
Topic: General
The top children's books for practising typical EFL language points, with interactive classroom activities for each picture book.