Category: All Ages & Levels

Creative thinking is central to all teaching. Here is a good idea to prompt students and get them to take their minds into different places.

Provide some lines, dots on a piece of paper. Or use this template ELT Buzz … Read More ....

Calendars are great to use in the classroom. Students can personalize them and learn about the important dates of the English world and for the school year.

Give students a big piece of chart paper and assign each group a … Read More ....

A fun listening and getting to know each other game for the class or even online (in the video conference, students can “raise your hand if ..”.

Read out statements and students stand up if they answer yes to the … Read More ....

One sterling activity to engage students studying remotely is to do a home scavenger hunt.

Students have X minutes to find the objects and then report back and “show and tell” with other students in the video call. A nice … Read More ....

I’ve been enamored by Quizlet ever since the mid 2000s when Andrew, a teen put the site up to help with his French studies. It’s grown to become one of the largest educational websites in the world.

ELT Buzz Teaching … Read More ....

You can use a dictogloss task to practise all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), along with grammar or lexis.  See a nice explanation HERE.

If the topic of the week is sport, create a short text about sport, … Read More ....

Divide learners into teams of four. Write a word that you introduced last week on the whiteboard, like:

• loyal (adjective)

Ask learners to agree on:

• the definition (faithful, devoted to someone/something)
• the noun (loyalty)
• the negative form (disloyal)
• a common

I’ve seen classrooms literally transformed when teachers start using this technique in their classrooms! It’s great for conversation based activities or taking up homework or exercises.

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Inside Outside Circle is a kinesthetic activity that involves all students in the … Read More ....

A very simple idea and great for the start of a class year or course.

Give students strips of paper, scotch tape and markers.

Get the students to go around the classroom and label everything, everywhere!  Stapler, ceiling, door, calendar, … Read More ....

It’s the Youtube generation we’re teaching!  Here is our recommended “best” 100 Youtube videos for teaching English.

Get the full list on EFL Classroom 2.0 + resources to download and use to teach with each video!  Click the image below … Read More ....