TEFL Activities Ideas
Classroom Practice Of A/An
Alex Case
Activities for intensive practice of the two indefinite articles and the difference between them.
Alex Case
Activities for intensive practice of the two indefinite articles and the difference between them.
Different Ways Of Brainstorming In EFL Classes
Alex Case
How to get away from the teacher standing at the board with a marker waiting for students to come up with ideas.
Alex Case
How to get away from the teacher standing at the board with a marker waiting for students to come up with ideas.
Using Animals to Teach Other Language Points
Alex Case
Using the incredibly popular topic of animals to teach much more useful language.
Alex Case
Using the incredibly popular topic of animals to teach much more useful language.
Fun Activities For The Second Conditional
Alex Case
Stimulating ways to practise the imaginary situations and advice, negotiations and moral dilemmas meanings of the second conditional.
Alex Case
Stimulating ways to practise the imaginary situations and advice, negotiations and moral dilemmas meanings of the second conditional.
Fun Practice For The Simple Past
Alex Case
Drilling games and communicative activities for intensive practice of the Past Simple
Alex Case
Drilling games and communicative activities for intensive practice of the Past Simple
7 Fun Activities for Mixed Future Tenses
Alex Case
Ideas on how to practise two or more future tenses together in ways that make their different meanings clear
Alex Case
Ideas on how to practise two or more future tenses together in ways that make their different meanings clear
Practice Activities for “Going To”
Alex Case
Ideas for fun activities practising “going to for plans” and “going to for predictions with present evidence”
Alex Case
Ideas for fun activities practising “going to for plans” and “going to for predictions with present evidence”
15 Fun Activities for Present Simple/Present Continuous
Alex Case
The best way of teaching the present tenses is to compare and contrast them. These ideas will show you how to do the even more difficult task of combining them in practice activities, all of them done in simple and entertaining ways.
Alex Case
The best way of teaching the present tenses is to compare and contrast them. These ideas will show you how to do the even more difficult task of combining them in practice activities, all of them done in simple and entertaining ways.
Past Continuous Activities
Alex Case
Amusing ways of giving students intensive practice of the Past Progressive tense
Alex Case
Amusing ways of giving students intensive practice of the Past Progressive tense
Multilevel ESL Activities
Shelley Vernon
Discover three fun multilevel ESL activities that are easy to implement with low or no prep time.
Shelley Vernon
Discover three fun multilevel ESL activities that are easy to implement with low or no prep time.
20 Fun Ways to Teach Kids Body Vocab
Alex Case
Games and other ideas for teaching the useful and fun topic of body parts vocab to kids
Alex Case
Games and other ideas for teaching the useful and fun topic of body parts vocab to kids
Physically Active Reading Activities
Alex Case
One solution to many potential problems with reading is to use texts in ways that get students physically moving around
Alex Case
One solution to many potential problems with reading is to use texts in ways that get students physically moving around
18 Fun Activities Connected to the Topic of Amusement Parks
Alex Case
I sat down to brainstorm these ideas and write some of them up as lessons to match a particular unit in the Oxford University Press textbook for teenagers Challenges 1 that I am using, but this is such a popular topic for young learners and teenagers that I would use many of the ideas again […]
Alex Case
I sat down to brainstorm these ideas and write some of them up as lessons to match a particular unit in the Oxford University Press textbook for teenagers Challenges 1 that I am using, but this is such a popular topic for young learners and teenagers that I would use many of the ideas again […]
Fun Activities for Prepositions of Time
Alex Case
1. Prepositions of time SNAP Prepare playing cards with the preposition of time replaced with a gap, with at least two different prepositions in the pack and approximately the same number of cards for each preposition- for example, 10 cards with “at” missing, 10 cards with “in” missing, plus maybe 10 cards with “on” missing. […]
Alex Case
1. Prepositions of time SNAP Prepare playing cards with the preposition of time replaced with a gap, with at least two different prepositions in the pack and approximately the same number of cards for each preposition- for example, 10 cards with “at” missing, 10 cards with “in” missing, plus maybe 10 cards with “on” missing. […]
Fun Activities for Practising A, An and The
Alex Case
1. Disappearing text Put a text on the board including examples of the meanings of articles that you have presented or are going to present, and have one student or team of students read it out loud. They then choose one word and that is covered or erased. The next person or team must then […]
Alex Case
1. Disappearing text Put a text on the board including examples of the meanings of articles that you have presented or are going to present, and have one student or team of students read it out loud. They then choose one word and that is covered or erased. The next person or team must then […]
Fun Practice Activities for There Is, Are, Was, Were
Alex Case
1. The worst school in the world Students compare their primary schools, with the aim of showing that their school was worse than their partners’, leading to sentences like “There was a swimming pool, but there was only cold water in
Alex Case
1. The worst school in the world Students compare their primary schools, with the aim of showing that their school was worse than their partners’, leading to sentences like “There was a swimming pool, but there was only cold water in
Fun Practice Activities for Family Vocabulary
Alex Case
1. Men and women stations The teacher or one of the students says a family relations word like “mother-in-law” or “grandfather”, and students run and touch the right wall if it is a female word or the left wall if it is a male word. Less noisy versions include jumping right or left of a […]
Alex Case
1. Men and women stations The teacher or one of the students says a family relations word like “mother-in-law” or “grandfather”, and students run and touch the right wall if it is a female word or the left wall if it is a male word. Less noisy versions include jumping right or left of a […]
Ways to Start an Adult Lesson
Alex Case
1. Chat Especially in adult classes with few students and at higher levels, this is probably the world’s most used “warmer”. And for good reason- many people choose to take extra lessons precisely because they feel they didn’t learn to chat in English at school. The magic word here, though, is “learn”. Just as listening […]
Alex Case
1. Chat Especially in adult classes with few students and at higher levels, this is probably the world’s most used “warmer”. And for good reason- many people choose to take extra lessons precisely because they feel they didn’t learn to chat in English at school. The magic word here, though, is “learn”. Just as listening […]