Recipes for July, 2009
Find someone who…
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22 Jul 2009
Provide students with a questionnaire like this one:
Find someone who...
1) has travelled to New York. ________
2) has been on TV. ______
3) has met a famous person. ______
etc....
The students are supposed to stand up and go around the classroom asking their classmates until someone has done so and if this is the case, his/her name should appear next to the question. Once a student finds a classmate for each question, the…
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- Tags: answers, drills, questions, verb tenses
20 Questions
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21 Jul 2009
This is a great game to play with students and excellent for practicing question making.
1. Choose an object and students ask questions about it. Give them question prompts to help, written on the board. For example;
Is it ..... heavy/light/big/small/young/old/(color)/hard/soft/
Can you ......... with it?
Can it ........it?
Does it have ....? Does it ......?
Students guess and have 20 questions to figure it out.
Another version is to…
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1. One person comes to the front and starts to draw a picture.
2. The students must try to guess what the picture is before the person has
finished drawing it.…
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Music and Karaoke – Choral singing
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21 Jul 2009
Singing is a great way to teach English and students will enjoy it very much. One great way is to take a song which repeats a lot and give groups of students a part. One song I like to use is ABC by Michael Jackson. Give each group a task / lyric to sing... for example.
Group 1 - ABC
Group 2 - …
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Use a bell to signal stoppage and time out in your class. An acoustic signalling device really works.
Use a two step approach. One ring means "FREEZE". Boys love freezing! Another softer ring means relax and focus attention to the front.
This really works well and train your students to listen well..... Also get more teaching skills tips here.
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/video/teaching-skills…
Fling the Teacher is a great game. 
Created by Andrew Field, a history teacher, you can download the generator on the games page of EFL Classroom and make your own game for reviewing your lessons.
Students love the game and try one out HERE or on the games page. You'll love it. Please upload your games to EFL Classroom 2.0…
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1. Get all the students to sit in chairs in a circle except one person who does
not have a chair. This person stands in the middle of the circle.
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Bring an item that is so unusual that the learners are not likely to recognize what it is. Spend some time eliciting basic descriptions of the item and guesses about what it is and how it's used. If possible, pass the item around.
This is an activity in observation and inference, so don't answer questions. Just write down descriptions and guesses until someone figures it out or you reveal the…
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Learners must be seated in organized rows at least 4x4.
Have the front row of learners stand. Ask simple questions like "What…
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This is great for practicing past participles and the present progressive tense.
Arrange group into a large circle with one person in the middle. The leader will prompt with the phrase Have you ever ? The person in the middle will finish the phrase. Example: Have you ever had candy bars for breakfast? Each of the people in the circle that has done what the person in the middle has…
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