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Animal Adventures

Practices: listening, speaking The teacher tells a story about an animal, but repeatedly asks the students to guess what, why, where, what next etc. Example: Teacher: A cat did something very naughty. What did it do?’ Students: It ate some cheese. Teacher: No. Students: It attacked the pet bird. Teacher: Yes! That’s right! But why? […]

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Ten 5-Minute Activities

Ten 5-Minute Activities to Keep Young ESL/EFL Learners on Their Toes   from Nina Lauder   Blackboard Activities Odd one out. Draw a circle, a square, the number 3 and a triangle on the board. Encourage the children to identify the image that does not belong (the number 3). Repeat this with new drawings or using […]

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Follow the Leader

Practices: listening skills, following directions, simple actions Students line up behind the teacher and follows him/her around the classroom. The teacher does an action and shouts out the word for that action. The students copy the action and repeat the word.   Action suggestions:    wave hello  walk backwards  it’s cold/hot  frog hop  stop  sit […]

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Clap!

Practices: listening, speaking The teacher starts telling a story. After a few sentences, she claps her hands and asks a student to continue the story. After a few more sentences, the teacher claps hands again and asks another student to continue. Repeat as necessary.

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Ring-a-Word

It can be used for anything from learning the alphabet to revising irregular verbs. There are many variations dependent only on the teacher’s imagination. For this particular variation we will be focusing on animals. The basic idea is that the teacher covers the whiteboard randomly with names of animals. You might cover the board haphazardly […]

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Who Am I?

You can use use this with any subject. Write the names of types of animals on small pieces of paper. Tape a name on the forehead of each student. The individual student should not see his or her paper, but the others should. Then, like with 20 Questions, only yes or no questions should be […]