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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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