TENSES AT FINGERTIPS
Finger Twister: the Present Simple Tense Review – Are there any games to teach the Present Simple tense? My kids forget it so quickly. You can turn any drill into a game by using game mechanics (see a few tips…
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LEARNING IN COLOUR
Colouring for Language Learning: A Set of Activities A splash of colour may be all they need. Colouring has become the latest most popular trend for unplugging and taking a break from life for a few minutes to create something…
GETTING INTO THE FESTIVE SPIRIT
It’s that time of the year again. The time to decorate the Christmas tree, do Christmas quizzes, make Christmas dishes, browse through the history and traditions of Christmas, or do lots of other activities related to the ‘jingle bells’ time…
1 WORKSHEET – 10 GAMES
10 Ways to Gamify Drilling Activities: Make Drilling More Meaningful and Fun All you need is a sheet of paper. * * * This post shows how the use of game mechanics can help a teacher design better drilling activities and…
STORY CUPS
My today’s post continues the series of posts on crafts and low-cost ideas for the classroom (See CREATIVE LOW-COST TEACHING/LEARNING AIDS to learn how to make low-cost flip cards, small books, vocabulary organizers, puppets and game fields out of a sheet…
Battleships: A PowerPoint adaptation
On Wednesday, I presented the project I’m currently leading at the British Council Teaching for Success Online Conference. [Take a look at the British Council Teaching English conference page where you can find fantastic talks by speakers from around the…
PLAY & LEARN
Do your learners like playing games? Today is the first day of another 365-day journey of ELT-CATION around the sun, so I thought it would be a good idea to list the top 10 most liked games posted on ELT-CATION…
THE A-MAZE-ING GAME
Speaking Games: The A-MAZE-ING Game ‘If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.’ A ‘maze’ principle has been widely used in ELT material design, in particular for reading assignments, where students are given different…
THINK POSITIVE
Speaking Games: Think Positive The creative life is simple: get up, get dressed, get on with it. Chuck Sandy. Creativity is the new Holy Grail of today’s life. The quest for creativity seems to have reached the proportion of global…
FRIENDSHIP BOOK: 11 THINGS CHALLENGE
I got a ‘friendship book’ from Sandy Millin on Saturday. I’m returning it today. * * * When I was in school, we had special friendship books to be filled in by our friends. The questions posed there varied (a…
