Category: All Ages & Levels

Images are powerful materials that a teacher can use to help students learn language.

Just released is the “50 Ways To Use Images In The Classroom” list.  A great resource with loads of examples and instant recipes. Check it out. … Read More ....

This is a pair activity for practising giving advice. Make ten problem cards. Choose ten students who will tell their partner about his/her problem. Then the partner will give them advice.  

These cards  can be used for practising second conditional … Read More ....

Writing Activities

Paint Chip Essay Writing
I had been experiencing trouble with teaching essay writing for some reason this year. I had seen a video from “TeachingChannel” about using paint chips from the hardware store to teach suffixes, prefixes and … Read More ....

This is a fun follow-up speaking activity for practising superlatives. Make cards with superlative form of personality adjectives. The number of cards depends on the number of the students in the class. Distribute the cards so that each student has … Read More ....

This is an easy “video” lesson. Get extra resources for teaching with it here. 

Ask students to brainstorm all the things / buildings that could be called “home”. Then show the video and see how many they got correct. Show … Read More ....

A good game for large classes and for reviewing vocabulary lessons.

1. Prepare a list of review vocabulary words.
2. Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper.
3. … Read More ....

This activity is used as a “getting to know you”, icebreaker on the first day of class.

1. Teacher takes the toilet paper roll and takes several squares of toilet paper, then hands the roll of toilet paper to a … Read More ....

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This is a great game to play with large classes

Ideal if you are in Korea.

Make teams according to rows. Tell each row to make a paper fish. You place each fish between the rows. They should all be … Read More ....