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Drawing and Vocabulary
In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Intermediate| Kindergarten| Recipe
16 Aug 2009
Kids love to draw! Use that interest to develop their English.
This lesson recipe is my "go to" lesson. An idea which you can use at the last minute for almost any children's class. Also a good lesson when unprepared or just plain tired/hungover! (it happens).
Give each student a blank A4 piece of paper. Draw a large rectangle on the board. Give the chalk…
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Talking about your family
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12 Aug 2009
This generates a lot of talk and students are always very interested in each other's lives.
Write down on the board some of your own (the teacher) family names. Underneath write;
A. Who is .......................?
B. ........ is ...........'s ................
A. .................................?
Students ask the teacher about the family members on the board. The teacher replies, using "B" and writing more information on the board. The student then… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Talking about your family’…
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Introduce Yourself…
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11 Aug 2009
This is just one of many ways your students can communicately introduce themselves.
Give each student a slip of paper. Ask them to write their name and two things they like (or you can switch this to suit your class - like from? / Nationality? job? etc...).
Next, students stand up and introduce themselves to each other.
Hi, I'm ..... and I like ...... and…
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Snowball Fight!
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8 Aug 2009
This is the perfect icebreaker and getting to know you activity!
First, write 3 very simple sentence prompts on the board. For example something like this....
1. I like .............................
2. I don't like ........................
3. I can ..................... well.
(change these depending on the level of your students).
Next, hand out a piece of paper and ask students to write down the sentences and finish them off…
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Real Recipes – Play Dough!
In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Kindergarten| Recipe
4 Aug 2009
Arts and crafts are great for young learners. Get cooking and using these "real recipes" to create some clay and play dough for language learning.
Get the students to challenge each other by moulding something while the others guess what it is! Or, create combination things to practice compound words "dog chair" or a Bat plane" Enjoy these delicious "real recipes"!
Magic Clay
2 2/3…
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Grammar Poems
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31 Jul 2009Grammar poems are ways for students to review lesson content and also express themselves and start really noticing language. Students that notice language really develop into great language learners.
Write the grammar poem outline on the board and do a grammar poem together as a class. Here is one example. Get others HERE on EFL Classroom 2.0 but you can just change the title to suit your…
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This is a great way to get students communicating authentically! You can start each class with some spins of the wheel! Get Spin the Question HERE on EFL Classroom 2.0.
Just spin and the students must ask a question for that number. Who / What / How / Why / Where etc....
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Not like the other things
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Children, especially young boys, love cars!
Pop up cars are great for talking about colors and car vocabulary. Get the children coloring their cars and then cut them out, fold and show and tell to the whole class! They will love their cars!
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Heads Down, thumbs up!
In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Kindergarten| Recipe
28 Jul 2009This game is also known as 7 up.
Select 4-5 students and give them a flashcard/picture.
All other students put their heads down and one thumb up. The other students go around the classroom and gently squeeze one student's thumb. They return to the front of the class.
The student's whose thumbs were squeezed stand up and guess who did it by stating the vocabulary on the flashcard "Did a "bear" squeeze me?". …
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