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# EFL Teaching Recipes

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- [Storybook Writing](https://teachingrecipes.com/storybook-writing/) - Writing storybooks or making picture books is a great way to reinforce grammar and vocabulary. It also gives students confidence and pride in “producing” something visible and tangible to measure their English language learning experience.
- [Zip Zap](https://teachingrecipes.com/zip-zap/) - Get students in a circle standing. One student starts in the middle. The student in the middle is the boss, what they say goes. Object is last person standing.
- [SLAP](https://teachingrecipes.com/slap/) - This is a very simple exercise that you can use everyday when using flashcards to make it much easier & more fun! Go through your flashcards with the children first...and when finished, lay them down face up around the children. Then call out the name of the card...and have the children race to slap the card. First to slap the card ...
- [Total Physical Response](https://teachingrecipes.com/total-physical-response/) - Total physical response - TPR. Basically review the content and vocabulary by having the students repeat your sentences and perform an action at the same time. ex. It is raining! (action - hands/fingers moving down). You can also play some pretty cool games with TPR and see one in this video. Also, make sure to have students lead the class (don't you do all the work!).
- [Word Bean Bag Toss](https://teachingrecipes.com/word-bean-bag-toss/) - Tossing bean bags is a great way to get students speaking and turn taking ( a valuable and essential language skill). You can use them to tell stories, ask and answer questions, respond with "first word you think of..." etc.....
- [Who would win - Mighty Mouse or Superman?](https://teachingrecipes.com/who-would-win-mighty-mouse-or-superman/) - In the movie Stand by Me, there is a scene where the boys debate who would win in a fight, Mighty Mouse or Superman. This inspired me to do the following lesson: All that you need for this is a stack of index cards, each with the name of possible combatant written on it. For example: samurai, tiger, battleship, pro-wrestler, ninja. Make at least 30 or 40 cards.
- [Buzzword Bingo](https://teachingrecipes.com/buzzword-bingo/) - Create a buzzword bingo sheet containing the vocabulary, expressions and things you want students to listen for during your lesson. Give each student a sheet.
- [Finish It Off!](https://teachingrecipes.com/finish-it/) - This discussion activity really teaches students to listen to each other. Start the activity by making statements for the class but "coughing / mumbling or saying "blablabla". Ex. I went to the &&)))*** last night. Students ask for clarification using the prompt on the board. Low: Excuse me, what did you say? High: Excuse me
- [Snowball Fight!](https://teachingrecipes.com/snowball-fight/) - This is the perfect icebreaker and getting to know you activity! See an already made version HERE. 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).
- [Stereotypes](https://teachingrecipes.com/stereotypes/) - Students will benefit from a lesson that deals with common stereotypes. One simple recipe is to put on the board - "All .... are .....!" Then, make a statement and ask students for their reply/reaction.
- [Whiteboard Soccer](https://teachingrecipes.com/whiteboard-soccer/) - Soccer is an international game and all kids are crazy about it - even girls! Whiteboard soccer is a great way to make review and quizzes fun.
- [Prompt Generators](https://teachingrecipes.com/prompt-generators/) - Prompts are great for getting students to use their English both spoken and written. We've worked hard to provide teachers with easy-to-use prompts, templates, and organizers. Now, we've updated our prompt generators and given them a nice, flashy, squeaky new landing page. Simply choose a category and then start prompting students with the randomly generated
- [Classroom Decorating](https://teachingrecipes.com/classroom-decorating/) - Some examples of decorating classrooms.
- [Sentence Starters](https://teachingrecipes.com/sentence-starters/) - Chunks, language and sentence starters are things that all learners must master. Students learn set phrases, useful for any language function and set occassion ... at the bank, ordering a pizza, clarifying information etc ... One great recipe for teachers to use is to just give students the prompt and have students complete the prompt
- [5 Ways](https://teachingrecipes.com/5-ways/) - It's easy to count using our fingers! Use this to get students to give advice and list the ways to do something. They can then list on their fingers - 1,2,3,4,5. How to - Find a job. Learn more English words. Get fit. Lose weight. Be happier. Make $. Save $. Live 'til 100. Cut
- [How to do something](https://teachingrecipes.com/how-to-do-something/) - This is a real recipe! Students use English for a real purpose, explaining to a partner or fellow group members, how to do something. I usually start listing numbers on the board and writing a title - How to ................. I ask students to explain the steps of how to do some simple activity.
- [Teaching Watching. Recipes And Resources.](https://teachingrecipes.com/teaching-watching-recipes-and-resources/) - These tried and true watching activities will help you get your students watching and communicating in English. The recipes work with most teaching scenarios and situations. Modify with your own basic ingredients (age, level, topic). This is the fourth in a series of 5 posts. See the posts about Speaking, Writing, Listening and Reading. Also,
- [Teaching Writing - Recipes & Resources](https://teachingrecipes.com/teaching-writing-recipes-resources/) - ELT Pros On Linkedin | Video Library | Our Blog | ELT Buzz News | TpTs These tried and true lesson activities will help you get your students writing and communicating in English. The recipes work with most teaching scenarios and situations. Just modify the basic recipe with your own basic ingredients (age, level, topic).
- [Teaching Speaking - Activities](https://teachingrecipes.com/teaching-speaking-activities/) - Teaching speaking is the core of what many language teachers do. It's important to understand the classic activities that support teaching speaking and getting students to communicate in the language. Here are some great recipes for activating your students' powers of communication and getting them speaking and using their language functionally. View online in your
- [Basic Reading Recipes](https://teachingrecipes.com/basic-reading-recipes/) - Basic Reading Recipes These tried and true lesson activities will help you get your students to read and communicate in English. The recipes work with most teaching scenarios and situations. Just modify the basic recipe with your own basic ingredients (age, level, topic). Download the handy infographic. Pre–Reading Recipes Before reading, students need to do pre-reading
- [Teaching Listening. Recipes And Resources](https://teachingrecipes.com/teaching-listening-recipes-and-resources/) - These tried and true listening activities will help you get your students listening and communicating in English. The recipes work with most teaching scenarios and situations. Just modify the basic recipe with your own basic ingredients (age, level, topic). This is the fourth in a series of 5 posts. See the posts about Speaking, Writing
- [TpTs Resources](https://teachingrecipes.com/tpts-resources/) - Find Teaching Recipes high-value materials on our TeacherPayTeachers store. Use the categories on the left to browse. There are many free lesson materials too! We continually add to our store and your follow (please follow us - click the follow button up top) helps us immensely. Teachers helping teachers! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Elt-Buzz-Teaching-Resources
- [Teaching Recipes Newsletter](https://teachingrecipes.com/teaching-recipes-newsletter/) - We now have a newsletter! Several times a week, I'll write about a teaching material and topic. I'll provide a recipe for using the material and suggestions to adapt it for your own classroom. There already is a large archive of posts for all teachers to browse. Go HERE. Subscribers to the newsletter will get
- [Alphabet Organizing - Categories](https://teachingrecipes.com/alphabet-organizing-categories/) - Graphic organizers are a great way to help students learn vocabulary or just prepare for the lesson content ahead. This alphabet organizer is fantastic. Select a category (food, jobs, animals, clothing etc..) and then have students in pairs/groups try to come up with as many words for the alphabet organizer as possible. Also, get them
- [Report it! Newspaper reading...](https://teachingrecipes.com/report-it-newspaper-reading/) - I really think it is great when a teacher gets the students interested in the world and what's happening there. You can use the newspaper in many ways but one easy way is to ask a student each day to begin class by reporting 3 things from the news. A new student each day. Ask
- [Around The World](https://teachingrecipes.com/around-the-world/) - This is very much like the famous quiz game, Golden Bell. Play until one student standing who can then challenge the teacher. Students stand in a line. The first two in the line face off. The teacher shows a flashcard or gives a language prompt. The first student to answer wins and goes to the
- [What's the weather like in .......?](https://teachingrecipes.com/whats-the-weather-like-in/) - The weather is a standard topic and beyond reviewing the vocabulary (which you can do with these resources) , you can really do it communicatively by getting students to do / practice weather reports! After going through the vocabulary and asking students "What's the weather like in.....? or ...today? - Give them a map of
- [A Video Lesson](https://teachingrecipes.com/a-video-lesson/) - One great recipe is to play a video with vocabulary content. Not flashcards but something real and beautiful. Then, students either write or speak or brainstorm all the vocabulary from the video in the specific category you mention. An example is the video Forgotten. Play and get students to list all the places in the
- [20 Questions](https://teachingrecipes.com/20-questions/) - 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
- [Guess The Sound](https://teachingrecipes.com/guess-the-sound/) - A fun game you can play online or off. 1. Students go and find an object that makes sound. 2. Keep it hidden or turn off the camera. 3. Then they do the sound and others guess. 4. Who guessed what was making the sound? Get some pre-made sound effects and Guess The Sound games
- [Who Is It - Celebrities.](https://teachingrecipes.com/who-is-it-celebrities/) - A fun game to practice description and talking about people and their lives is the celebrity guessing game. Get a photo collage of many celebrities. A student starts talking about one celebrity and others must then guess who it is. Only one guess each allowed! Or play the game differently. A student thinks of one
- [Guess The Price](https://teachingrecipes.com/guess-the-price/) - Bringing reality into the classroom is so important. Language is something we use in the real world and so it is incumbent that teachers link their lessons to actual use in the wider world. One nice example is a - Guess The Price activity. it's easy to do. Go shopping and buy some ordinary, everyday
- [Brainstorming](https://teachingrecipes.com/brainstorming/) - Brainstorming is a great, open-ended activity that can be used for many teaching objectives. Assessing student prior knowledge, consolidation, review or just language enjoyment and fun. Give students an organizer or blank piece of paper and some short instructions / a topic and see what they know! Set a time limit in advance. Many vocabulary
- [Interview An Older Person](https://teachingrecipes.com/interview-an-older-person/) - This is a great task and homework assignment. Get students to use a set of questions (make them in class) and interview an older person they know. A neighbor, a grandfather, grandmother, a friend of the family .... doesn't matter. After, they bring the answers back to class and then introduce the person to the
- [X-mas Gift exchange](https://teachingrecipes.com/x-mas-gift-exchange/) - First, come to class with some pictures you've cut out of a newspaper or magazine. Nice gift ideas. Tell the students it's Christmas and walk around the class giving items. Stop at a student, handing them the picture and say, "Merry Christmas! Students if advanced must reply with more than "you're welcome" and should use
- [50 Christmas Ideas](https://teachingrecipes.com/50-christmas-ideas/) - There are so many things you can do for Xmas lessons. Xmas movies or videos. Write Xmas cards. Give imaginary gifts. Play Xmas games like bingo or Jeopardy. Decorate the class. Sing carols, even karaoke. Hum and guess the carol! So, so many. Here is our ultimate list - 50 ELT Holiday Activities. View and
- [Match 'em up](https://teachingrecipes.com/match-em-up/) - The teacher prepares -ADHESIVE TYPEWRITER ADDRESS LABELS ( which can be purchased in rolls to stick on the backs of all the students in the class.) or Post It Notes. Each label contains a real person's name or the name of a character from fiction or television cartoons. Each named person should have a natural
- [Don't say Yes or No...](https://teachingrecipes.com/dont-say-yes-or-no/) - Different students volunteer to be asked questions. They must avoid saying the words "YES" or "NO" for a given period of time e.g. 1-2 minutes. This is done by using expressions like: "I do", "I am", "that's true", "that isn't true", "that's not correct", "exactly", "precisely", "that's right", "that's correct", "I think so", "probably", "possibly",
- [Postcards](https://teachingrecipes.com/postcards/) - Purchase a postcard for each member of your class (or just make some and photocopy or get a stack of free ones available at some stores. You could use this one or see all our templates.). Each student writes his or her name in the name and address space. Turn them picture side up on a
- [TELL US ABOUT](https://teachingrecipes.com/tell-us-about/) - This small group discussion game is excellent because students talk about their own lives and the other students ask further questions and become really curious. Use these cards. Model with the whole class by giving selected students cards and they will ask the teacher. Ex. Tell us about what you ate for dinner? The teacher
- [At The Movies](https://teachingrecipes.com/at-the-movies/) - Everyone loves movies! This is a great idea and a great way to have a very light but powerful lesson. 1. Write some names of movies on the board. Then give students 4 hints about one movie. See if they can guess. Continue until all are off the board. 2. Students have 2
- [A Back To School Snowball Fight](https://teachingrecipes.com/a-back-to-school-snowball-fight/) - It is back to school time and this teaching recipe is proven to work for all levels! 1. Get students to fill out on a sheet of paper some info. about themselves. You can use a prepared page like this free one to download, I prepared. Make sure students DON'T write their name on the
- [Using Video](https://teachingrecipes.com/using-video/) - If you have a screen and projector - using video in class brings amazing power - the power of context, into your teaching. The classroom no longer has 4 walls! Here is one quick idea. For example. Use the video When I grow Up . The students watch and note all the jobs they can
- [Instant Prompts](https://teachingrecipes.com/instant-prompts/) - Teaching a language is both super difficult and super easy. That's contradictory but if you've taught a number of years, I think you'll also see the logic and sense in that statement. One of our main jobs is to give students "time on task", time speaking English, negotiating meaning, dealing with ambiguity tolerance etc ...
- [Logical Inferences. Cause and Effect.](https://teachingrecipes.com/logical-inferences-cause-and-effect/) - A fun way to elicit vocabulary from students is through a First - Then activity. It's based on a fantastic kid's book - First The Egg. It's really easy to play. Prompt students with "First the X" and then students must repeat it and finish it off - "First the car, then the insurance" (for
- [Story   reTelling](https://teachingrecipes.com/story-retelling/) - Retelling is a powerful way for students to learn language. They retell in their own words and using the context of "the story", acquire language. 1. Find a set of stories for students to read. One for each student. (I like to use funny stories You could use any stories, folktales work well too) Give
- [Pictionary](https://teachingrecipes.com/pictionary/) - Pictionary is a language classroom staple activity. 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. 3. The person who guesses correctly comes to the front to draw another picture. You can use
- [Grammar Poems](https://teachingrecipes.com/grammar-poems/) - Grammar 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. Solicit student answers and complete.
- [Student Names](https://teachingrecipes.com/student-names/) - It isn't easy to learn so many names so fast! Here are some tips for remembering student names ( a must because when you use a student's name, studies show they learn better/quicker! just by hearing their name!) 1. For the first month use name tags/name cards. Make them decorative. Here are some really neat
- [Pass the Paper!](https://teachingrecipes.com/pass-the-paper/) - I was reminded of this game while watching an excellent Korean teacher's English lesson this week. Pass the Paper (Snowball). It's great for online or in a regular classroom. Students in groups pass around a crumpled piece of paper while music plays. When it stops, whoever has the paper must answer the question or do
- [Pop-Up Cars](https://teachingrecipes.com/pop-up-cars/) - 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! Get the pop up cars on ELT Buzz , here. The old pop
- [Foldables](https://teachingrecipes.com/foldables/) - Foldables are a great way to make your lessons "active" and also more about fostering thinking skills. They can be of all sorts. Just start with a piece (or pieces) of paper and get the students folding and labeling. Like HERE. They can be as elaborate as Accordion Books or as simple as a 4
- [Music Works](https://teachingrecipes.com/music-works/) - One recipe for teachers is to think of music differently. Not just as a way of studying language - listening to words but also as a way of classroom management or creating classroom atmosphere. Here are a few ways music can be used differently. Games. Try Mahna Mahna. Play the song and have students pass
- [Post It Notes](https://teachingrecipes.com/post-it-notes/) - Post It Notes - small things but so useful! Get students using them to label the things in the classroom. Or get students putting them on their desk into categories, writing the vocabulary on the note. Or have students go around the classroom writing compliments to each other and sticking them on the back of
- [Last One Standing Song Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/last-one-standing-song-game/) - This game is fantastic! Select some vocabulary from a song your student's enjoy (select words that repeat a lot). Then, ask them to choose and write in large letters, one of those words/phrases. Divide the students into groups. The students stand up showing everyone their word and holding it high. Play the song and students
- [Free Hugs](https://teachingrecipes.com/free-hugs/) - I used to do this with my classes (teacher training) and it always showed up on my teacher evaluations post-course as one of the highlights mentioned by trainees. You can do it too with students. FREE HUGS. Play the song below and ask students if they know about it. Then, get up and go around
- [Song & Dance](https://teachingrecipes.com/song-dance/) - This is a fun way to not only to incorporate singing into the lesson, but get the class moving. Find a section of an unfamiliar song that the students have probably never heard. Teach lyrics to the class using a powerpoint or handouts. Either way, lead the class through the song line by line and
- [Create a Country](https://teachingrecipes.com/create-a-country/) - Level – Elementary and Up Objective – Depending on the level: Vocab. Building (Demographic Country Terms) Describing a Country - Find templates here. Basic question formation Procedure – Begin the class by drawing a big map of your country on the board. Put some cities in, roads, mountains, etc (This should take less than a
- [DON'T TOUCH ME!](https://teachingrecipes.com/dont-touch-me/) - This is a fun way to teach negative commands, wake up the class or simply make them laugh. Write on the board "DON'T TOUCH ME". Have the class say the phrase with you one or two times to get used to it. Some may already know it. Poke a student GENTLY on the shoulder or
- [Gossip Girl and Reported Speech](https://teachingrecipes.com/gossip-girl-and-reported-speech/) - Hello, I’d like to share my idea to present reported speech for the first time in the classroom. It can be used with all level students. You just have to modify it according to the level. It is a fun way of teaching reported speech. Ideally it is the best if you present
- [What did I do?](https://teachingrecipes.com/what-did-i-do/) - A great way to start a class concentrating on the simple past. I usually engage everyone in a friendly chat, just to get them ready for the start of the lesson, then, when I know they are concentrated on me, I walk out of the classroom. Seconds later (after the chatter has died down a
- [The Cha Cha Slide (Listening and Reading for Low to mid MIddle school)](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-cha-cha-slide-listening-and-reading-for-low-to-mid-middle-school/) - his is a ridiculously effective listening lesson for low to mid-range students. 3rd grade upper level middle school tends to buck against it though some of them enjoy it. May be too easy for them. The two youtube clips are below. Clear the desks. All of them. Make sure the whole room is nothing but
- [Six Steps to Learning a Word](https://teachingrecipes.com/six-steps-to-learning-a-word/) - Here is how I help my students learn their vocabulary! It has improved my students' ability to recognize vocabulary and teaches them a way to learn vocabulary independently! It's called Six Steps! We do them as an introductory lesson for new vocabulary. The Six Steps: 1. Look at the word 2. Hear the word 3.
- [Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)](https://teachingrecipes.com/organize-your-own-music-festival-future-tenses-and-comperativessuperlatives/) - Hi all, This lesson is ideal for pre/intermediate classes to practice both future tense and comperatives/superlatives. First start with a quick discussion on music and the Ss's favourite singers or bands etc. Then, tell them they're going to organize their own music festival- a very special one to their own taste. Give them the following
- [Hot hands](https://teachingrecipes.com/hot-hands/) - Two players face each other. One palms up and the other palms down over the other hand. The player with the palms up try to slap the hand with palms down. When successful, the student can ask the other student a question (improvised or from a list). Swap places.
- [Spelling game](https://teachingrecipes.com/spelling-game/) - I use this game with my students to check spelling of vocabulary introduced in the previous lesson. Divide class in two teams, A and B. Divide the board in the middle. Mark each side of the board for each team. On each side of the board draw: a river with stepping stones for students
- [Go fishing!-Listening Activity](https://teachingrecipes.com/go-fishing-listening-activity/) - This is a very easy activity. Easy to prepare and easy to do. Howvever, it is very efficient to evaluate sts listening skills and to get some creativity in the listening area in your class. I actually modified it from another activity I read in this site posted by David. Objective: To evaluate sts listening
- [Matching Game (flashcards)](https://teachingrecipes.com/matching-game-flashcards/) - Use this video to show students how to play the game. It is very simple! Get more flashcards and ideas for more Flashcard games HERE.
- [Message in the air](https://teachingrecipes.com/message-in-the-air/) - Great activity to revise VOCABULARY from previous classes. Ask students to think of a word they've learned previously. They have to make sure they know how to write it. Students come to the front of the class and write the word in the air using his index finger. Then, students write down the word and
- [The Phrase](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-phrase/) - The teacher elicits some verbs from students (4 or 5 verbs) and writes them on the board. Ex: run-eat-see-fly. Give students 2 or 3 minutes to write a sentence with all the verbs from the board in the same sequence without adding any other verb except for auxiliaries. Ex: I was running home to eat
- [What's The Trend?](https://teachingrecipes.com/whats-the-trend/) - A simple teaching recipe using the website - Storyline. Students in teams open up the game and play. They must make a graph about the data set provided by the site. Ex. Percent of internet users over time. Students discuss, practice their English and see who gets closest to the actual graph / trend. Lots
- [Sequencing](https://teachingrecipes.com/sequencing/) - Sequencing is a great, open way to design a lesson task. Students get lots of comprehensible input and listening for detail and it is easy to do, organize. 1. Find a good piece of audio or video with clear steps. See our example below. 2. Explain to students they'll be putting the steps of ....
- [Tasks For Teaching](https://teachingrecipes.com/tasks-for-teaching/) - TBLT (Task Based Language Teaching) is a valid approach and alternative to the traditional Prepare - Practice - Produce style lessons many teachers deliver. Simply give students a task (preferably transferable to the real world) and let them "have a go". Help. Assess. Assist. Take a look at our 50 lists for many task ideas.
- [Home](https://teachingrecipes.com/home/) - 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 again, pausing and review all the names for these things people all over the world
- [Last Things First](https://teachingrecipes.com/last-things-first/) - One of the problems with teaching is that there is never enough time and things almost always take more time than we've planned for in our lessons. So what happens is that the real important stuff, the activities, the "giving it a try", the practicing is usually always cut short by the bell in the
- [Wish I Knew Then](https://teachingrecipes.com/wish-i-knew-then/) - Your students bring such a powerful and deep view and knowledge of the world into the classroom. We should always tap into that - each n every lesson. One cool way is to ask them about "life advice". What do they know now that they wish they knew when they were younger? Play the song
- [2 Truths, 1 Lie Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/3-truths-1-lie-game/) - This is a standard EFL game and a great way to icebreak and get students to know about each other. 1. Write 3 sentences about yourself on the board. Use sentence starters, for example: A) I like to .................. in my free time. B) I have never .......................... C) I can ............... very well. Use the
- [Can Pigs......?  PROVERBS](https://teachingrecipes.com/can-pigs-proverbs/) - Here's a unique way to learn and practice proverbs for a higher level class (and probably high school or univ/adults). Put a few common proverbs on the board without the ending. You can bring a horse to water but.......... Solicit replies from students to finish them. It can be funny! Then reveal the true ending,
- [Going To Pieces](https://teachingrecipes.com/going-to-pieces/) - Most enthusiastic language teachers "Go To Pieces", meaning they literally use material that is in pieces and compels students to practice and communicate. At its heart, "pieces" is a way of teaching that puts communication at the core of language teaching and learning. Think about it. "Pieces" as an approach or frame, stretches over a
- [Yes, Maybe, No](https://teachingrecipes.com/yes-maybe-no/) - This technique can be used in many ways. It is simple and focused both on student listening skills and also creating class atmosphere. 1. Put large posters of "Yes" and "No" at opposite ends of the classroom. (you might also use "Rocks! - Sucks! or "I think so" or "I don't think so" etc....) 2.
- [Find Someone Who Part 2](https://teachingrecipes.com/find-someone-who-part-2/) - Usually, the FSW (Find Someone Who ) games entail students asking questions AND writing in names to form sentences. (find a whole pile of pre-made ones on ELT Buzz Teaching Resources) ie. (name) loves dancing. However, there is another option and one that even is stronger cognitively and pedagogically. Give students a bingo card with
- [Story Retelling](https://teachingrecipes.com/story-retelling-2/) - Ask a few students to step out of the classroom. Tell the students in the classroom a simple, step by step story. Like the 3 wishes joke maybe. Ask the students to come back in the class. The rest of the class must retell the story/joke to the students that didn't hear it. Option: Give
- [Sports Vocabulary Review Games](https://teachingrecipes.com/sports-vocabulary-review-games/) - It's so easy to make a simple and fun game using a sport - to review a unit of study or just have fun using trivia questions. Take a sport like baseball. One group of students is team A. The other team B. Correct answer, advance around the bases. 4 correct, runner is home! One
- [Word Searches 3.0](https://teachingrecipes.com/word-searches-3-0/) - Don't do the dull, regular word search, word find, unless absolutely necessary. Why not do one that promotes more learning? Here is how. Give each student a blank word search. Depending on your wordlist, theme, unit of study - get students to fill in and make their own word find. They write the words to
- [Name 3](https://teachingrecipes.com/name-3/) - A simple game. Write a bunch of categories and have students brainstorm 3 things for each category. Then take up with the groups in turn. Each thing not repeated gets a point. Continue with all categories. Most points win. See a worksheet for this and presentation here - https://resources.eltbuzz.com/7uk And other games.
- [Guess The Ad](https://teachingrecipes.com/guess-the-ad/) - Commercials are high-quality materials to use in the language classroom. And they are copyright free! Just play a commercial that doesn't show the product until the end. Pause and have students guess what brand/product is being sold. Here are a whole pile in a nice collection. Or use this Youtube playlist (harder - students will
- [Rewrite a common story](https://teachingrecipes.com/rewrite-a-common-story/) - The True Story of the 3 Pigs is a timeless classic. Read the story with your students, maybe having a few students act it out as you read. Then, ask the students to write another well-known story from the point of view of another character. Cinderella - Step Sister / Jack and the Beanstalk -
- [Mystery Object](https://teachingrecipes.com/mystery-object/) - 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.
- [Body writing](https://teachingrecipes.com/body-writing/) - This idea works well in pairs. Model in front of the class first. 1. Write numbers or letters on the back of a student/classmate by using your finger. 2. The classmate guesses the number/letter. 3. Make it more advanced. Larger numbers / words. You can also do a variation of this by doing the same
- [Play. Pause. Repeat.](https://teachingrecipes.com/play-pause-repeat/) - Video based lessons needn't be complex. For language learning they can be as simple as providing students with a simple task while watching and letting them "take in" and negotiate the meaning of the language in the video. Prediction is one such way. Just have students watch. Pause and then have them predict what will
- [It's sweet! It sucks!](https://teachingrecipes.com/its-sweet-it-sucks/) - This is a great way to get students expressing how they feel. Brainstorm together on the board, ways to express how you like or don't like something. Put in some idioms (It sucks! / Sweet! ). Or the teacher can put up some ways and then ask students how they feel about ......? Students respond.
- [Great Toy Robbery](https://teachingrecipes.com/great-toy-robbery/) - This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas. Get more Xmas video ideas on ELT Buzz's Xmas video page. 1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other look away. Partner A describes what he is watching to Partner B who can't see. Switch partway through.
- [Indian Poker!](https://teachingrecipes.com/indian-poker/) - This is a variation of the 20 questions game but can also be a way to learn/produce/practice all lesson vocabulary. Give all students post it notes. ( I like using the small ones, the really tiny ones). Students choose a famous person to write on the note OR a vocabulary item that you've studied/learned (maybe
- [Use Your Imagination](https://teachingrecipes.com/use-your-imagination/) - 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 Teaching Resources made. Students finish the picture with their own creativity and then show and
- [Important Dates Of A Month](https://teachingrecipes.com/important-dates-of-a-month/) - This is a real easy idea and especially good for the start of a school year or the beginning of any month or the year. Provide students with this template and have them research all the important dates for the month. In history or holidays etc ..... Have them present them to the class and take up as
- [This Or That Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/this-or-that-game/) - This is a super easy game to play. Students vs teacher or in pairs student vs student. Provide a This or That handout. Choices for students to make about the teacher or their partner. Here is a free one about Christmas or see all these other This or That pre-made sheets. Students select what they
- [Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)](https://teachingrecipes.com/drop-everything-and-read-dear/) - Drop Everything And Read celebrates the power of SSR (sustained silent reading). Our students can acquire powerful amounts of vocabulary and lexical/linguistic knowledge by learning language within the context of a story/book. Stephen Krashen is one of ELT's biggest advocates of "The Power of Reading" and he advocates we get our students reading lots of
- [Same Sounds Bingo](https://teachingrecipes.com/same-sounds-bingo/) - First, hand out a list of sixteen homophone pairs to your students, such as tale and tail, night and knight, etc... These lists can be readily found online or you can make your own. You might need to take some time to explain or review the meanings of words on the list. Next, give each
- [Guided Writing](https://teachingrecipes.com/guided-writing/) - There are many ways to teach writing but one way that I really think provides enough structure for beginning and developing writers is guided writing. Give students a text with words missing (usually nouns). In groups or pairs, they can complete the text together, guessing the words to be filled in. Better yet, if the
- [Forgotten](https://teachingrecipes.com/forgotten/) - This is an excellent video to study places in a house. As the video plays, you can have students note the places in the house. Check by replaying. Ask the students how the place has changed, what was happening in the room and what is happening now. Lots of critical thinking embedded in this simple
- [Book/Movie Discussion](https://teachingrecipes.com/bookmovie-discussion/) - Really simple to do. Just play a clip of a movie and prepare some discussion questions on powerpoint. Questions can be simple comprehension or can be more indepth, it's up to you. You can put students in pairs, small groups of 3-4 or have a large class discussion. I recently did a book/movie unit with
- [Human Alphabet](https://teachingrecipes.com/human-alphabet/) - Teaching the alphabet can be fun. A great activity for YLs - learn the alphabet by making the letters with your body or hand signs. See how these YLs did it. Use this ELT Buzz presentation. View all the alphabet related resources.
- [Free 2021 Calendars](https://teachingrecipes.com/free-2021-calendars/) - 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 month to draw, fill in with dates / important days each calendar sheet. Or you
- [X-mas Cards](https://teachingrecipes.com/x-mas-cards/) - This is a simple idea. Why not have your students make and write nice Christmas cards for each other? Simply use these templates or have them draw their own. First, review how to write a card by doing one as a whole class on the board. This will give them an idea of the appropriate
- [Stand Up If](https://teachingrecipes.com/stand-up-if/) - 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 question. Great for practicing one particular grammatical form. For example - the past. "I went
- [Home Scavenger Hunt](https://teachingrecipes.com/home-scavenger-hunt/) - 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 way to make things personal and get to know students. Here are many examples available
- [Quizlet - An Instant Digital Platform](https://teachingrecipes.com/quizlet-an-instant-digital-platform/) - 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 Resources offers a lot of teaching materials with Quizlet supplemental sets. But highly recommend purchasing
- [Words - Collocations](https://teachingrecipes.com/words-collocations/) - This recipe is for intermediate or higher levels. But the video can be used for all levels really. This video is superb! It has verbs linked to nouns in categories (Play / Blow etc... see the worksheet). Watch the video first and see if students can find the verbs that are shown in context. Next,
- [Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Videos Overview](https://teachingrecipes.com/martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-videos-overview/) - Hi, these are great short videos all under 4 minutes, to overview the civil rights era in the USA during the late 1950's up to the mid 1960's. It finishes with MLK jr's famous "I Have a Dream Speech." (17 minutes) These are for discussion purposes to build background knowledge for why we celebrate MLK
- [Making A Doodle Video](https://teachingrecipes.com/making-a-doodle-video/) - Doodle songs/videos are a great activity you can do with your class! They really promote contextualized learning and motivate students because you have a final product and of course - there is music! I was asked by a member for some info. about creating one - so in the name of education, here is my
- [Name The Languages](https://teachingrecipes.com/name-the-languages/) - This is a cool game to play with students or on your own. It helps develop language awareness - a great skill for a developing language learner. You'll need to use flash in your browser or download and play with the GOM player! Play each audio sentence. Guess what the language is! All the sentences
- [Using Silent Video](https://teachingrecipes.com/using-silent-video/) - This video is the BOMB! It is captivating, absorbing, a story par excellence but also SILENT! Yes, silent films are great for getting students to produce language -- and after all is said and done, that most often is the hardest thing to do, getting the students speaking and learning language by just communicating. That
- [Leave The Room](https://teachingrecipes.com/leave-the-room/) - This is a standard game and can be played to practice a variety of language forms (or just for fun!). I use it to practice the difficult "have/has been ..." present perfect tense. Put the forms on the board. The .......(s) has / have been .............. 1. One student is elected and asked to
- [The Black Hole](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-black-hole/) - This video makes a great prediction or writing exercise. Just stop and pause and then students guess what happens next. Loads of possibilities to teach with this. Get the video and teaching resources here. Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0
- [Mr. Has Been](https://teachingrecipes.com/mr-has-been/) - I have used this recipe to hilarious effect over my teaching years. Always a winner! It focuses on the present perfect continuous tense and gets students practicing this form/conjugations. Come to class dressed up kind of looking like Mr. Bean. Tell students you are Mr. Has Been. Have a set of flashcards or word cards
- [Superlative speaking cards - Who's the ... student in class?](https://teachingrecipes.com/superlative-speaking-cards-whos-the-student-in-class/) - 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 one. They should answer the question: 'Who's the ... student in the class?' following the
- [To Do List](https://teachingrecipes.com/to-do-list/) - A simple video that makes a powerful lesson for talking about the future, resolutions, making lists.This video is a nice compliment.Ask students to brainstorm a list of 10 things they want to prioritize. Then play the video and see how many are similar. Most points/matches wins!
- [Listening Recipes](https://teachingrecipes.com/listening-recipes/) - Here's a bunch of listening recipes! Just read to your heart's delight. Lots of small ideas that foster student listening skills and really make a difference in creating a fun and engaging classroom. Intensive Listening Activities
- [Yellow Card / Red Card](https://teachingrecipes.com/yellow-card-red-card/) - Soccer is an international sport and students really understand the yellow card / red card system. Make yourself a card and use it as a great classroom management tool! Yellow is a warning. Make sure to make eye contact when you give it . But don't make a big fuss either. Red card is a
- [Video Lessons Galore](https://teachingrecipes.com/video-lessons-galore/) - ELT Buzz Teaching Resources has 100s of quality prepared video lessons. See our Top 100 list. Also, we have a player featuring videos we have videos for - EFL Video Lessons. There you can scroll through a player with recommended videos for a specific category or CEFR level. Also, each video comes with a lesson plan
- [Top 10 Guessing](https://teachingrecipes.com/top-10-guessing/) - This is a recipe for any kind of theme. 1. Ask the students, what are the top 10 X (example. Cities in the world - see as youtube video below and here as a gif book) 2. Give students 5 minutes to brainstorm a list in their group. 3. Ask students for their guesses.
- [Fling the Teacher review game](https://teachingrecipes.com/fling-the-teacher-review-game/) - Fling the Teacher is a great game. Created by Andrew Field, a history teacher, you can download the generator and get instructions on how to make your own game for reviewing your lessons. Students love the game and try one the multiple choice generator too.
- [Human Sentences](https://teachingrecipes.com/human-sentences/) - This is helpful for learners with lower language levels who are struggling with the auxiliary verb system (be, do and have). I give learners a piece of paper or mini-whiteboard with one word of a short sentence. They have to physically arrange themselves in the correct order to make the sentence. For example, I give five learners
- [Stop The Bus](https://teachingrecipes.com/stop-the-bus/) - This is a great game that is easy to start/finish. 1. Get students in small groups. 2. Select 3 categories. Ex. Food / Country / Verb 3. Select a letter from the alphabet. Ex. G 4. Students have to write down a word beginning with that letter for each category. First to finish and
- [Simple Dictogloss](https://teachingrecipes.com/simple-dictogloss/) - 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, which includes the lexical items you want to recycle and revise. For example: Many sports people are
- [Retell A Movie Plot](https://teachingrecipes.com/retell-a-movie-plot/) - Students watch a lot of movies! So harness this and get them "retelling" a movie plot and sharing their thoughts about a movie in English. Use this template so they can prepare their thoughts about the movie they have chosen to talk about. Then in small groups, students can share/retell the plot of their movie.
- [Vocabulary Pyramids](https://teachingrecipes.com/vocabulary-pyramids/) - I adapted this idea from the Hot Spot series of young learner coursebooks, and use it to review vocabulary from previous lessons. At the start of a lesson, I ask learners to write the names of: one activity two animals three household chores four sports five foods six colors. They write this with one activity
- [Weekly Quiz](https://teachingrecipes.com/weekly-quiz/) - 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 collocation (a loyal friend, a loyalty card) the plural (loyalties). Divide learners into teams of
- [Alphabet Cards](https://teachingrecipes.com/alphabet-cards/) - Simple activity for beginners. Helps them to learn how to spell basic words. Download and print out a set of alphabet cards. https://resources.eltbuzz.com/7vm Call out a word and students spell it using the letter cards. Get students to challenge each other by calling out words to challenge classmates.
- [Who Is It?](https://teachingrecipes.com/who-is-it/) - Write everyone’s names on slips of paper and put them in a hat or box. Choose two pairs of learners to be players, and ask each of them to pick a name and keep it a secret. Ask the rest of your learners to stand up. They will be part of the game board. The
- [Listening Skills Story](https://teachingrecipes.com/listening-skills-story/) - I do this story often with new classes - int/adv. levels. It really helps emphasize the need to listen carefully. 1. Tell a story like the one below. Start with " I'm going to tell you a story. Listen carefully. You are driving a bus." 2. Proceed to tell the story about the bus stopping
- [Word Chain](https://teachingrecipes.com/word-chain/) - Write a word on the board. For example "apple". Ask students to continue with new words or expressions using the last letters of the previous word. Ex. apple - learn - ever - very - ryebread - address ..... Pts. 2 1 3 2 2 Students get points for using more letters. Play until they
- [Magic Tricks](https://teachingrecipes.com/magic-tricks/) - I like using magic tricks to get student's attention. Along the way, they are learning a lot as you explain and show using language. A great way for rich language learning. Here's a favorite I used to use with my kids. I"ll guess your birthday Magic Trick Ask your students to do the following, calculating
- [5Ws](https://teachingrecipes.com/5ws/) - This is a very easy technique for making a lesson. Take any news story or any story. Assign and have students dissect the story and fill in the 5Ws . Use this easy template - 5ws Graphic Organizer Bingo! Have students present their findings after to the class.
- [Dictogloss](https://teachingrecipes.com/dictagloss/) - Dictogloss is an activity that works with many short texts/passages. I've used it over the years and it seems to motivate and "work" because there is a built in task -- the task of reconstructing the original text. 1.Let students listen to you or a higher level student read a selected text or story. (don't
- [Bucket List](https://teachingrecipes.com/bucket-list/) - Students will understand the concept of the "bucket list" but you might even show them a little clip from the famous movie so they understand this. Then get them to write out their own bucket list and share with classmates or the whole class. What things on the bucket list are similiar? What's the strangest
- [Inside Outside Circles](https://teachingrecipes.com/inside-outside-circles/) - 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. Description Inside Outside Circle is a kinesthetic activity that involves all students in the class and that facilitates short exchanges between students. Read here a full description. Method The
- [A 4 Word Story](https://teachingrecipes.com/a-4-word-story/) - Level: Elementary + Aim: to revise vocabulary or grammar; to practice word order; to practice fluency Time: 15 minutes or more Language skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening Types of learners: auditory, visual Material: an A5 blank piece of paper for each group Classroom management: group work Procedure: Divide the class into groups of four
- [My Favorite Subject](https://teachingrecipes.com/my-favorite-subject/) - MY FAVOURITE SUBJECT Level: Intermediate+ Aim: to practice fluency; to practice word order; to revise vocabulary Time: 20 minutes or more Language skills: speaking (in variation – writing, reading) Types of learners: auditory, kinesthetic, visual Materials for the students: none (in variation – material needed for the presentation) Materials for the teacher: none Classroom
- [What's the first word you think of when I say.......?](https://teachingrecipes.com/whats-the-first-word-you-think-of-when-i-say/) - I use this activity as a warm up with students. They love it and it really gets them producing and reviewing their own stored language and also becoming quicker at responding in English (and not translating). 1. Ask students at random, what's the first word you think of when I say...? As students answer, just
- [Have you ever...?](https://teachingrecipes.com/have-you-ever/) - 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
- [BANANA](https://teachingrecipes.com/banana/) - One child sits in a chair and has to answer the questions of classmates with the word "banana" without changing their facial expression or smiling. Continue until they lose or can't be beat!
- [What did you do yesterday?](https://teachingrecipes.com/what-did-you-do-yesterday/) - This is a nice ice breaker or regular class starter. Have a learner stand in front of the group and make one statement about yesterday, such as "Yesterday I went shopping." Then let everyone else ask questions to learn more information, such as "Who did you go with?" "What did you buy?" "What time did
- [Show n' Tell](https://teachingrecipes.com/show-n-tell/) - This is a very basic everyday lesson starter and icebreaker. A learner brings an item from home and talks about it in front of the group. Give learners enough advance notice to prepare and remind them again before their turn. Have a back up plan in case the learner forgets to bring an item. Beginners
- [English Is Everywhere](https://teachingrecipes.com/english-is-everywhere/) - 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, teacher's desk etc .... it will take a good part of a class. After that, as
- [Write An Obituary](https://teachingrecipes.com/write-an-obituary/) - A very simple but effective writing, research and presentation lesson. Get students researching a famous person and writing their obituary! Then have them present the information in class. This template will make the project simple. Perhaps first discuss with students what info. you need to have in an obituary. Then brainstorm some possible famous people
- [The Top 100 Videos For ELT](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-top-100-videos-for-elt/) - 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 to view all the videos on the Top 100 Youtube Playlist.
- [Torn Pictures...](https://teachingrecipes.com/torn-pictures/) - This is a wonderfully simple communicative activity. Get a pile of nice magazine pictures. Next, tear or cut them into twos. Enough halves for the number of students in your classroom. Then, give each student half a picture. They have to walk around the class describing their picture and finding their torn "match". Once they
- [Sentence Stretching](https://teachingrecipes.com/sentence-stretching/) - This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses. Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it. Ex. The dog ran. Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question. Ex. Where? The dog
- [Accents](https://teachingrecipes.com/accents/) - Exposing students to a wide range of accents of both native and second language speakers is a recipe that must be cooked up for intermediate and advanced learners. One great place for this would be The Speech Accent Archive . There you can choose mp3 samples from speakers all over the world. They all read
- [Angel vs Devil](https://teachingrecipes.com/angel-vs-devil/) - This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess. Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single). Model whole class. The teacher is the
- [Great Projects to Learn English: Create your English Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/great-projects-to-learn-english-create-your-english-game/) - Hi, there!, Last year, I asked my students to do the following project: CREATE YOUR ENGLISH GAME! It was a hard task, but so REWARDING!!!!!!! Because of that, I've just decided to share this interesting useful IDEA with other students and teachers. Let me tell you what you need ... 1. Students
- [Disappearing Dialogue](https://teachingrecipes.com/disappearing-dialogue/) - I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool. Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique 1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue. 2. Students practice in pairs. 3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue.
- [Running Dictation](https://teachingrecipes.com/running-dictation/) - # 96 Running Dictation This activity can be used with any level - just use an appropriate text. It is great for introducing a text that you will study in depth through intensive reading. Or it can also be used to finish off a lesson/unit and review the text again... Basically, you have to do
- [Descriptive Essays: Writing Enough Content](https://teachingrecipes.com/descriptive-essays-writing-enough-content/) - Students often have problems with coming up with enough details for their examples when writing descriptive or even persuasive essays. So I came up with this exercise to teach them how to write enough content that the reader understands their examples. I start by writing this sentence on the board: NLP is one of the
- [Write the dialogue](https://teachingrecipes.com/write-the-dialogue/) - It would be great to get students working in teams to write up a dialogue for this cool google doodle video a la Charlie Chaplin. Then play the video as students read out/perform their dialogue.
- [The Yes/No Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-yesno-game/) - Overview: A simple but fun quick-fire game to liven up a class or as a reward in the final segment of a language lesson. A student comes to the front of the class, the students choose a topic (for example, 'Your last holiday', 'Your favourite food' etc), then the class fire questions to the student.
- [Language Area!](https://teachingrecipes.com/language-area/) - Sometimes it is really difficult to avoid students talk in their mother tongue, so usually I choose a corner of the whiteboard and draw a small circle and write Portuguese Area. So if a students want to say anything that he/she can't say in English he/she has to stand up and go to the Portuguese
- [Story Dominoes](https://teachingrecipes.com/story-dominoes-2/) - This is a very simple idea that works to help students talk about events and narrate a story. Write many ideas / vocabulary on the board, all over the board. ex. A girl in pjamas, a ball, Thursday, green, Last night, the President, kill, Oh, it is beautiful. etc.... Start by telling the
- [Story Chains](https://teachingrecipes.com/story-chains/) - Story chains are simple ways to keep students telling a story. Start a story and then students keep adding lines to continue. They can even be done with only words, students relating words to other words through association. One higher level example is using the Zen story about the lucky farmer. Start by telling the
- [Alexa Says ...](https://teachingrecipes.com/alexa-says/) - A very simple recipe. Play this video (or any video of Alexa commands) and pause after the command. Get students to guess what Alexa will reply. Simple, beautiful and fun lesson! Maybe even bring Alexa to class to!
- [Run To You Chant](https://teachingrecipes.com/run-to-you-chant/) - I had a nice time in a teacher training session with this video chant commercial. Just play and stop between the parts of the man/woman. Divide the class in half with the woman / men repeating the line each time you stop. Then, play again but shut off the video audio and get students to
- [Everthing but the articles ! Using newpaper ads](https://teachingrecipes.com/everthing-but-the-articles-using-newpaper-adds/) - One of my all time teaching activities has been the use of Restauraunt ads and up coming events from an English language Newpaper-if not local you will have to make a simple map to help them out. -first What kinds of food do you like? ^-language and nationalities OK. Where can I get a fish
- [The Feather Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-feather-game/) - The Feather Game Make a prop (for this one I used a paper feather) and have Ss pass it around while the T closes their eyes and counts down from 20. Then the T must find the feather with CCQs: Who, Where, Does, Do? - attributed to Nelson Beard.
- [Body English](https://teachingrecipes.com/body-english/) - Especially for beginners - what I call "Body English" is a great technique. Start with letters / spelling and numbers. 1. Bring a student to the front of the class. 2. "Draw" a number or spell a simple word on their back or the palm of their hand. 3. Ask the student to
- [Blow The Fish](https://teachingrecipes.com/blow-the-fish/) - 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 at the back facing the front. They should also be in the same position. Using
- [Ideas: EFL Classroom 2.0](https://teachingrecipes.com/ideas-efl-classroom-2-0/) - EFL Classroom 2.0 , our sister site, has posted a nice series of articles called: Featured Resources. You'll find lots of great resources with ideas on using them. Instant downloads.
- [Toilet Paper Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/toilet-paper-game/) - 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 student. The teacher tells the student to take some, more than three. 2. After everybody
- [Sentence Race](https://teachingrecipes.com/sentence-race/) - 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. Organize the pieces like bundles, 2 bundles, 2 sets of identical words. 4. Divide the
- [Giving advice - problem cards](https://teachingrecipes.com/giving-advice-problem-cards/) - 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 using "If I were you, I'd..., you should, you could...). You can find my
- [Using Images](https://teachingrecipes.com/using-images/) - 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.
- [New Year's Resolutions](https://teachingrecipes.com/new-years-resolutions-2/) - This is a great way to practice the future tense and learn about each other. Adapted from Jill Hadfield's "Communication Games". 1. Ask students about their resolutions. Put the target language on the board - "This year, I will / I resolve to / I'm going to .......... 2. List some of the common resolutions
- [Family Photos](https://teachingrecipes.com/family-photos/) - This is a fun activity to do at the beginning of the school year or course. But works any time. Ask students to bring in 5 photos with family and friends in them. Have some of your own to provide to students who forget or don't bring some - they can make up the answers!
- [Vocabulary Recycling](https://teachingrecipes.com/vocabulary-recycling/) - Here is an activity for vocabulary revision. This activity works well with the students who need constant control for vocabulary revision. First, we need to make sure that we have spent enough time on teaching vocabulary, then we can divide the class into two (according to the number of people in the class) .We will
- [Asking your questions](https://teachingrecipes.com/asking-your-questions/) - Asking your questions TEACHING NOTES ACTIVITY Students get a chance to ask each other questions, then try to guess the original questions based on a handful of answers. GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY Questions LEVEL B1 – above TIME 30 minutes WHAT TO DO 1. Before class, make copies of the handout (see at the end of this recipe).
- [Winners and Losers](https://teachingrecipes.com/winners-and-losers/) - As a warm up today I passed out playing cards to my 34 5th graders (face down on desk). I had them place the cards on their foreheads without looking. I cautioned them that they were NOT to indicate (with words or gestures) what the cards were to their neighbors, that this was a serious
- [Guess Where I Am?](https://teachingrecipes.com/guess-where-i-am/) - This is an easy but fun lesson to practice geography, question making and language skills. 1. Choose one student who comes to the front of the class. 2. The student writes in big letters on a piece of paper with marker, a country or place in the world. 3. Students have 10 guesses/questions and after
- [Never gonna give you up ...](https://teachingrecipes.com/never-gonna-give-you-up/) - A simple idea for students to practice "gonna". Play the iconic video Never Gonna Give You Up. Students simply check the things Rick is never gonna do. Or don't use the checklist at first, just let them listen and take notes - What is Rick never gonna do? Get more resources for teaching this song
- [Personalized Lesson activities](https://teachingrecipes.com/personalized-lesson-activities/) - This video presentation I made, has many recipes and ideas for teachers. All the activities are basic EFL activities that help teachers personalize lesson content and allow students to talk and learn English through their own lives and experiences. This is a crucial part of the language acquisition process.... Enjoy the viewing and find
- [Keeping Youtube videos!](https://teachingrecipes.com/keeping-youtube-videos/) - Video is used a lot by teachers. However, sometimes the internet isn't reliable so you shouldn't count on it! But no worries, just use Save from net and you can enter the youtube video url/address and it will download the video to your desktop. Just rename and it is yours to play whenever you want!
- [Lily knows her Geography!](https://teachingrecipes.com/lily-knows-her-geography/) - This is a fun lesson. Lily is an amazing child and your students will be fascinated. 1. Choose a student and get the student standing at the front of the class. Place a map of the world at the front of the class. 2. Show the video of Lily. When she is asked to find
- [Activities for Short Videos](https://teachingrecipes.com/activities-for-short-videos/) - Short videos like those on Youtube or EFL Classroiom, are perfect "engaging" starters for great language learning. Here are some suggestions on how to use videos which have vocabulary in them, like this favorite, the Elephant Song. Play the video and give students a task. This is so important! The task must be VERY simple
- [Backdoor - a great teaching technique](https://teachingrecipes.com/backdoor-a-great-teaching-technique/) - Mr. Bean works well with this technique. Get some great Mr. Bean videos here or here. Backdoor is a technique where in pairs students sit back to back. One student watches the screen and describes the action. The teacher can write vocab. on the board to prompt student talk. Continue for a few minutes then
- [The Circle Game](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-circle-game/) - 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. 2. The person in the middle calls out one instruction. eg, “Change if you are wearing a green shirt.” 3. All the people wearing a white shirt
- [Where the Hell is Matt?](https://teachingrecipes.com/where-the-hell-is-matt/) - These series of videos are amazingly effective for classroom instruction. They also give students a view of the world and are a great global issues primer. Matt "danced" his way around the world. Here are several ways to use these videos in the classroom ... Download all the Matt videos or stream in high quality
- [A Life InBTween: teen speak](https://teachingrecipes.com/a-life-inbtween-teen-speak/) - This video is super for teenagers especially. A Life InBTween. Animation that has a lot of really "toally" "completely" fascinating language. Show the video with or without subtitles. Resources here. Divide up into the four parts and use for 4 different lessons. Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0
- [Blank Dialog Videos](https://teachingrecipes.com/blank-dialog-videos/) - The blank dialogue is a very "natural" teaching approach. Something intuitive about it. I used it in my early days of teaching - just pausing a dialogue on cassette tape and asking students to respond. You had to get skilled with using those big buttons! That is what being a teckkie used to entail! Most
- [Comparing 2 things](https://teachingrecipes.com/comparing-2-things/) - Many teachers use a Venn Diagram for comparing 2 things (items, events, ideas, movies, books, etc ...) Get a list of things to compare here. I like this simple organizer I designed. A little clearer and structured. Makes for a simple lesson but a strong one as students need to think critically. Get students to
- [Action Man - Describe The Action](https://teachingrecipes.com/action-man-describe-the-action/) - Students simply describe what Action Man is doing. Pause and then have students describe the stunt. They'll love the challenge! Download and view the video HERE >>>>
- [Research A Famous Person](https://teachingrecipes.com/research-a-famous-person/) - This is a simple activity but very student centered with lots of speaking practice. get students researching a famous person using the attached template. Research A Famous Person PDF students present the info. about their famous person. ask and answer questions together.
- [Board Race](https://teachingrecipes.com/board-race/) - A classic. Board Race is a fun game that is used for revising vocabulary, whether it be words from the lesson you've just taught or words from a lesson you taught last week. It can also be used at the start of the class to get students active. It is a great way of testing
- [Scavenger Hunt](https://teachingrecipes.com/scavenger-hunt-2/) - In small groups, students have a list of 34 common items that they will have to collect in a given amount of time. To do this, they will need to ask other students in class if they can borrow an item. This request may involve a little trading, and since the groups are competing against
- [Class "Chain" activity](https://teachingrecipes.com/class-chain-activity/) - This idea can be used for any category to see who in the class likes X or Y. Here's an example using pop groups. Brainstorm some of the student's favorite pop groups. Write them on the board along with ways to say you like them or don't like them. Next, on a small slip of
- [BAAM](https://teachingrecipes.com/baam/) - BAAM is a game I made after a lot of thought. Many teachers told me that they were frustrated when playing games - only the high level students answered and were involved!So I came up with BAAM and without a doubt, all students will remain engaged. There are many types already made to practice grammar
- [Paint Chip Essay Instruction](https://teachingrecipes.com/paint-chip-essay-instriction/) - 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 root words. This got me to thinking about other uses for this free, colorful resource.
- [ESL/EFL teaching activities and tips](https://teachingrecipes.com/eslefl-teaching-activities-and-tips/) - Take your time, do not make hasty conclusions about the following valuable books on ESL activities and read the description of them on amazon.com. Let me know your particular interest in issues of teaching and perhaps learning English. I may have some more really new helpful information for you. 700 Classroom Activities [Paperback], D. Seymour
- [Not like the other things](https://teachingrecipes.com/not-like-the-other-things/) - Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0 I am a BIG fan of not only teaching English but teaching thinking skills. We have to do both (and always spice with happiness!). This game really gets students thinking and you'll be amazed at their creative minds and answers! 1. Practice the song above, "One
- [Pass the Chicken](https://teachingrecipes.com/pass-the-chicken/) - PASS THE CHICKEN! The prop is the most important element to this game : ) To begin, all students sit in a circle. Select one person to be IT. That person holds the rubber chicken. The teacher or a "caller" says to the person holding the chicken, "Name five animals. Pass the chicken!" As soon
- [SCC - Student Created Content](https://teachingrecipes.com/scc-student-created-content-2/) - I'm a big fan of student created content. That's my own term for resources which aren't from the textbook but from the student's own aprior knowledge, world and mind. Personalized teaching. Students create the materials for learning/practicing English. In doing so, they are more interested in the topic because it is from themselves and also
- [Sentence Auction](https://teachingrecipes.com/sentence-auction/) - I used to play a game called Sentence Auction. Print up money from your home country and give each group of students the same ammount of money. I used to do $1000 in $10 and $20 bills. Then write a bunch of sentences on the board. Some will be correct, some will contain errors. The
- [Alphabet Chain](https://teachingrecipes.com/alphabet-chain/) - If you are teaching children, you'll need to put up an alphabet chain above the chalkboard (that's the perfect place and allows you to use for all kinds of games etc...). It is very easy and the BEST by far is by Jan Brett and incredible artist, teacher and sharer. Get the alphabet cards here
- [Story Dominoes](https://teachingrecipes.com/story-dominoes/) - Telling stories is great in the classroom. Add a little "imagination" and chance and you have a great recipe! Story Dominoes is a great concept. Just get a lot of varying pictures. Cut them up and students in groups of three/four, use them to tell "random" stories. One student turns over a card to begin.
- [Use a Timer! Get ticking!](https://teachingrecipes.com/use-a-timer-get-ticking/) - Using a timer in class is really something that is invaluable and maybe even a MUST for a teacher. Students need to know how long a task will take and a timer is a perfect way to let them know! Especially for writing exercises and tests. Further, I've even seen teachers use it as a
- [Use Play Money!](https://teachingrecipes.com/use-play-money/) - Money makes the world go round and it also makes a teacher's job easy and students very interested! When you play a game, instead of keeping score with boring marks on the chalkboard, use play money! Download some HERE. Cut and crumple up and put in a big bag. Appoint one student the banker who
- [Calling All Teacher Cooks!](https://teachingrecipes.com/calling-all-teacher-cooks/) - I'm sending out a call to all practicing teachers for some recipes! Short, simple ideas that can help all teachers but especially those new to the profession and just getting their toes wet and their chalkboard dirty. I've simplified this site and it is now very easy to post and share. Just add one simple
- [Classroom labeling](https://teachingrecipes.com/classroom-labeling/) - This is a great idea for the start of the year. Give each group of students some card board strips of paper. Also some tape. Students brainstorm the names of all things in the classroom (in English!). Then, ask them to go tape the names up around the classroom. First come, first server. After, take
- [After teaching grammar](https://teachingrecipes.com/after-teaching-grammar/) - We all know there is no way to teach grammar efficiently without being systematic. We OUGHT to teach grammar systematically. For example, PAST SIMPLE Explain in native tongue the tense and give the structure Positive: Subject+verb+complement. Negative: Subject+didn't+verb+complement Questions: Did+subject+verb+complement. Try it, and you will get great results. However, they need to practice as soon
- [THEATRE, a higly motivating enriching task](https://teachingrecipes.com/theatre-a-higly-motivating-enriching-task/) - Our dearest playwright SHAKESPEARE wrote in his play As You Like It, this: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages". Maybe due to his quote, maybe
- [Extensive Reading: Voice Diary](https://teachingrecipes.com/extensive-reading-voice-diary/) - Extensive Reading: Voice Diary This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listeningEncourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students. 1.
- [Pass the Pen!](https://teachingrecipes.com/pass-the-pen/) - Conversation is the "art of exchange". Students learn English but very seldom really learn the art of "holding a conversation" and making it a 2 way exchange. This technique helps this. Any time students are performing an activity: dialogue, discussion, task etc... train them to "pass the pen". After speaking, the student passes the pen
- [Map it - Vocab. Technique](https://teachingrecipes.com/map-it-vocab-technique/) - I learned this just recently in a staff workshop (shows the power of peer learning/sharing!). thanks Rona! Whatever vocabulary list / word bank you have - you can map it! Yes, just ask the students to draw a local map or a floor plan of a house or even a zoo layout. Next,
- [SCC - Student Created Content](https://teachingrecipes.com/scc-student-created-content/) - I am a firm believer in this! The students create the materials in a simple fashion for practicing / producing language. The context is given and so they have an easy time to speak. Also, very simple and less work for the teacher! These can range from brainstorming activities to projects. Using pieces of paper
- [Is this yours? Possessives.](https://teachingrecipes.com/is-this-yours-possessives/) - This is a standard lesson / activity for practicing possessives. 1. Put on the board my ..... - mine. your ..... - yours. his ..... - his. her ..... - hers. its ...... - its. our ... - ours your ... - yours their ..... theirs. 2. Prior to the class while students are waiting,
- [Building Basic Technical Writing Skills](https://teachingrecipes.com/building-basic-technical-writing-skills/) - The Society for Technical Communication's award-winning Technical Literacy Project adapts many real-world science instructions and descriptions for use in high-school science classes. These cases gradually build student writing skills by revising, correcting, or expanding scaffolded, sequenced text samples adapted from practical materials outside the classroom. Such structured technical-writing practice is especially
- [Faces - Who is it? ](https://teachingrecipes.com/faces-who-is-it/) - This is a nice game to play to practice describing people (an important language skill). Simply put up this photo. or this one. Print it out if you want students to work in pairs / groups. Students take turns describing the faces and others guess who it is . One guess / person so they
- [Alphabet Organizing](https://teachingrecipes.com/alphabet-organizing/) - This is a very simple way to brainstorm and practice vocabulary. Alphabet organizing! Simply use this handy organizer and get the students to list all the vocab for a certain topic (at the beach, at the restaurant, animals, jobs etc...). Afterwards, you can use this for assessment or simply play a game of
- [Bragging rights!](https://teachingrecipes.com/bragging-rights/) - Everyone loves to brag, so this lesson recipe works every time with a variety of levels and ages. It also allows students to use their own "lexicon" and thus practice producing language rather than just "acquiring". It really helps fluency. Write on the board: My ...... is .......er / more ..... than your.....!
- [Simon Says! ](https://teachingrecipes.com/simon-says/) - This is a classic TPR game (Total Physical Response) and gets the students up and participating, as well as learning actively. The teacher (or a student(s)) instructs other students to do certain actions. Ex. Simon says, "Touch your nose"! or Simon says, "jump up and down". If the caller doesn't say "Simon says" and
- [An Activity with a Cell Phone](https://teachingrecipes.com/an-activity-with-a-cell-phone/) - An Activity with a Cell Phone This activity was done in a workshop for teachers of English working at the DGEP (Direccion General de Escuelas Preparatorias), high school teachers of English. The activity was to show a simple but effective way to use cell phones in the language classroom. Steps: The class
- [The Gumball Game (Prepositions of Motion)](https://teachingrecipes.com/the-gumball-game-prepositions-of-motion/) - "I dropped my gumball, and it went . . . . ." Required items: 1) Index cards, or pieces of paper 2) A large drawing surface (whiteboard, blackboard, a big piece of paper) This is a fun activity to help students use the prepositions of motion they already know. First, get a pile of index
- [Describing People from Memory Information Gap](https://teachingrecipes.com/describing-people-from-memory-information-gap/) - Here's a way to practice vocabulary and sentences related to describing facial and body features, but it can be modified to include clothing and colour vocabulary, too. First, practice the vocabulary and language: Stand at the front with a whiteboard and marker, and secretly draw a figure on the whiteboard to prompt the target language
- [Following Instructions from a Special Guest on Video](https://teachingrecipes.com/following-instructions-from-a-special-guest-on-video/) - Here's an activity that's a fun way for students to practice listening to instructions and following them. All you need is a large TV in your classroom that can play videos, and a friend or family member from "back home" willing to help out. Explain to students that you have a "special guest" who's going
- [Who Am I ?](https://teachingrecipes.com/who-am-i/) - This is a nice way to get students to know each other. Make a quick organizer for writing. Have the students fold an A4 "hamburger" like, 4 times. They will have 8 lines for writing when they unfold it. They must write 8 sentences about themselves, all beginning with "I am....". Teacher monitors. Next,
- [Mr. X - Story book writing](https://teachingrecipes.com/mr-x-story-book-writing/) - Writing storybooks is a great way to reinforce grammar and vocabulary. It also gives students confidence and pride in "producing" something visible and tangible to measure their English language learning experience. There are several steps to making a storybook and I'll use my own Mr. X's incredible Day/Yesterday as an example. Get the ppt/video here
- [Silent Speaking](https://teachingrecipes.com/silent-speaking/) - This is an excellent activity for students to gain awareness of pragmatical competency and pronunciation problems they may have. In pairs, students silently "mouth" very slowly, the questions from a handout. Simple questions. Go here for many lists - use the simple ones like "Favorites" or "Getting to know you". The other student responds with
- [A Visual Aids Project](https://teachingrecipes.com/a-visual-aids-prject/) - For group work activities: To discover students good at drawing/painting ask them to draw a man riding a horse,a school boy running to catch the bus,a family on a picnic…etc(it’s better to provide them with the materials needed) Once you collect the task you design the winners and encourage them to be your visual aids
- [Drawing and Vocabulary](https://teachingrecipes.com/drawing-and-vocabulary/) - 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.
- [Text Messaging - A writing lesson](https://teachingrecipes.com/text-messaging-a-writing-lesson/) - Cellphones are the imbilical cord of today's youth. Instead of fighting against them, let's use this interest to get them learning English! Transl8it.com allows the teacher to enter English text and then get the "text message" equivalent. Simply copy this and handout to students. The students look at the text messaging and "decode" this into
- [Guessing Games](https://teachingrecipes.com/guessing-games/) - Guessing games are a standard way to play and practice/learn vocabulary. Simply generate with the class your vocabulary list. It can be recent vocabulary from your book/lesson/unit. Then, the teacher describes one thing/place/person on the board and students try to guess. Only one guess / student or team ( or you will have some students
- [IREGULAR VERBS IN A SONG](https://teachingrecipes.com/iregular-verbs-in-a-song/) - Those with --ken past participle sound: speak spoke spoken take took taken wake woke waken break broke broken shake shook shaken Those with --sen past participle sound choose chose chosen freeze froze frozen Those with --ght past participle sound buy bought bought fight fought fought think thought thought teach taught taught etc....
- [Talking about your family](https://teachingrecipes.com/talking-about-your-family/) - 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
- [Guess the Wordle - a vocab. game](https://teachingrecipes.com/guess-the-wordle-a-vocab-game/) - Wordle is a wonderful tool for teaching English! You can put in groups of words and then display them in a "cool" fashion. Your teenagers especially will love this personalization. I designed a quick game of random wordles - What The Wordle?!. Students make guesses and if correct get points. If they add more words
- [Introduce Yourself...](https://teachingrecipes.com/introduce-yourself/) - 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
- [Writing Tag](https://teachingrecipes.com/writing-tag/) - A piece of paper, a chalkboard and a pair of scissors are a teacher's best friends. Tr.uly, let me explain with this one activity. 1. Give each student a blank piece of paper. 2. Ask them to fold it "hamburger", once, twice, three times. Unfold! 3. They will see 8 blocks for writing. In the
- [Describing your apartment](https://teachingrecipes.com/describing-your-apartment/) - This is an excellent way to get students speaking and to practice "home" related vocabulary and prepositions. 1. Warm up by quizzing students about prepositions. Take a pen and place it around your body. Ask, "Where's the pen?". Place it in some funny places! 2. In pairs with a pen, students practice and do the
- [Real Recipes - Play Dough!](https://teachingrecipes.com/real-recipes-play-dough/) - 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
- [Scavenger Hunt](https://teachingrecipes.com/scavenger-hunt/) - So, all of my students have their own cell phones, most of which have cameras, right? I decided to use this to my advantage and have the kids to a scavenger hunt. I made a list of things they had to find around the school and surrounding grounds (things like "three colors of flower," "your
- [Top 5 - The perfect vocab. game!](https://teachingrecipes.com/top-5-the-perfect-vocab-game/) - Top 5 was the first game I developed and the positive feedback I got from it, really keep me motivated to make more games. Teachers loved its simplicity and students loved the competitive aspect. It also has a neat creative thinking skill aspect. 1. Hand out the worksheet for each student. Put them in groups
- [Choosing Students - Chants](https://teachingrecipes.com/choosing-students-chants/) - Mickey Mouse is the perfect way to choose a student in class. Unlike Einie Meanie Minie Moe, it allows the students to actuall participate in choosing themselves, so the teacher can avoid any "blame". It goes like this. For each word, point to a student. Mickey - Mouse - built - a - house. - How -
- [Spin the Question](https://teachingrecipes.com/spin-the-question/) - 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.... Another variation is
- [2 Way Tasks](https://teachingrecipes.com/2-way-tasks/) - 2 Way Tasks are a staple of English Language Teaching. In the typical 2 way task, each student (A and B) have some information and some information missing. they must communicate to fill in their missing information. Here are some , examples of 2 way tasks, I put together. Very teacher friendly, just photocopy
- [Stories - Predicting](https://teachingrecipes.com/stories-predicting/) - Stories are great in the classroom. A good narrative, really provides ideal context to learn language, even better if they have pictures. The best and easiest way to "teach" a story is to tell it through prediction. Get the students in a comfortable area if possible and read them the book, showing the pictures.
- [Working with Article Newspapers](https://teachingrecipes.com/working-with-article-newspapers/) - 1º Choose two articles related to the same topic (eg. music). Teacher dictates some personal questions related to music. In pairs, students discuss their ideas. 2º Students in pairs are given two different articles(they can't see each other's articles). They have to draw what their articles are about. Once they have finished, swap their drawings
- [Sky Writing / Body Writing](https://teachingrecipes.com/sky-writing-body-writing/) - This is a fun way to teach English "physically". Students spell words on the back of their partner who must guess what they wrote! Also, do the same thing but this time, they write on the palm of their partner (who has their eyes closed). Also try Skywriting. The teacher writes in the sky and
- [Picture Dice](https://teachingrecipes.com/picture-dice/) - This is a wonderful idea. Just go to this site (or make your own) and print out great dice! Put your own pictures on the dice or have the students draw or use theirs. Next, students use the picture dice to practice your target language. For example, if you have pictures of actions, and are
- [Heads Down, thumbs up!](https://teachingrecipes.com/heads-down-thumbs-up/) - This 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
- [Tux Paint a free computer art/drawing program](https://teachingrecipes.com/tux-paint-a-free-computer-artdrawing-program/) - I teach computer skills classes to adults who have developmental disabilities. My favorite class to teach is computer art. Tux Paint is a free computer program that you can legally load onto as many computers as you wish. You will be amazed and delighted with the creativity of your students. http://tuxpaint.org/download/
- [Classroom Rewards Lottery](https://teachingrecipes.com/classroom-rewards-lottery/) - Here's something one of my mentor teachers did back when I was a student teacher. I don't have any experience using it in my own classroom, but it seemed like a good idea... Many classrooms are grouped into desks, with a points reward system where each group can earn points during class by actively participating
- [Marbles in a Jar](https://teachingrecipes.com/marbles-in-a-jar/) - This is an idea for improving the co-operative spirit in the classroom (or as some may refer to it, "classroom management"). I learned it from a teacher trainer in Canada, as part of a seminar on "Assertive Discipline." Basically, you get a jar (an old jam jar will do, or else some small piece of
- [Get a Laser Pointer!](https://teachingrecipes.com/get-a-laser-pointer/) - If you want to be a really effective teacher, get a laser pointer! They cause only a dollar or two at most and really help a teacher effectively modify curriculum. With a laser pointer, you can be helping a student and very quickly point to what you are talking about: spelling, a picture, a thing
- [Student created word searches!](https://teachingrecipes.com/student-created-wordsearches/) - I'm a big fan of SCC - student created content. Instead of just handing out a photocopy or a worksheet - get the students to make the activity or worksheet! They learn while making the content and since they have an investment in the actual content/stuff of the lesson, they are much more motivated and
- [Describe the Picture](https://teachingrecipes.com/describe-the-picture/) - Show a picture and have learners take turns saying one descriptive thing about it. Beginners can make simple observations like "three cats" while advanced students can make up a story to go with the picture. They aren't allowed to repeat what someone else said, so they need to pay attention when each person speaks.
- [Picture Library](https://teachingrecipes.com/picture-library/) - Pictures speak a 1,000 words and are the engine of language teaching because they provide much needed contextualization for the lesson. Every teacher staying in EFL / ESL should have a picture library, a folder of photos (laminated if you can) of interesting people/places/things/events. Start cutting from newspapers and magazines and you can build a
- [Student - Teacher Box](https://teachingrecipes.com/student-teacher-box/) - Put a box on your desk and tell the students if they have any thoughts, to write them down on a piece of paper WITHOUT A NAME and put it in the box. Once a week, look in the box for any good ideas. Give feedback by posting on a bulletin board. Students can read
- [Wall of Words](https://teachingrecipes.com/wall-of-words/) - Every week put up a large piece of chart paper on the classroom wall. Get a marker on string and tie it nearby. Students can go there and write new vocabulary they have learned or just put up graffiti and express themselves. Take a picture of it each week and put them together in a
- [Celebrities](https://teachingrecipes.com/celebrities/) - Students love to talk about celebrities. 1. Put the names of some celebrities on the board. Describe one and the students will guess who it is. Erase that name and continue until all are erased. 2. Give students a blank piece of paper. Give them one minute to write down the name of all the
- [Whisper, Draw, Write....](https://teachingrecipes.com/whisper-draw-write/) - This is a variation of the famous "Telephone" game. Write a word on a slip of paper and show it to a student. This student must whisper it to the second student. Then the second student must draw a picture of what he or she heard, and show it to the third student. The third
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