The BEST Get-To-Know-You Activity for the 1st Day of School – Kids/Adults
I’ve used the same activity on the first day of every new EFL / ESL class for the last 8 years. This is by far the simplest, most interesting lesson for getting to know...
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Easy Imperative Lesson for Kids’ Classes
Use this very simple, no-prep lesson to let your students use imperatives and directions to speak and have fun. This is a very easy lesson for teachers, but one that children love! Basically, this...
How to Adapt ‘Find Someone Who’ for Very Young Learners
Find Someone Who is a great speaking activity that I’ve described in detail here, but in it’s original form, this activity requires pretty good reading and writing skills, so how can you use it...
Engaging Drawing Dictation Lesson for Kids
This fun and easy-to-modify conversation lesson lets young students speak, draw and have fun at the same time. It can be modified to teach or review different sentence structures or vocabulary words depending on...
‘There Is/Are’ English Lesson for Children
Getting young students, especially children too young to read or write, to have a full conversation in English can be tough. Use this 60-minute lesson to give your students plenty of speaking practice! All...
10 More Unusual Advanced TEFL/ESL Conversation
Looking for some conversation topics and questions for your advanced English language learners? Try these 10 new advanced conversation topics. (And if you haven’t yet, check out our first post about unusual conversation topics.)...
Social Media Lesson to Get Students Talking
An hour-long, conversation lesson with a discussion about social media, an emotional video, and an opportunity to use new phrasal verbs in conversation. You can download the PDF with the vocabulary exercises, story, and...
20 Fun, Useful Flashcard Games for Kids
Flashcards are an ESL teacher’s bread and butter, and there are hundreds of flashcard games, but these twenty are the ones that I use in my class on a weekly, if not daily basis....
English Listening and Discussion Worksheet about Hoaxes
This short 2-minute podcast from HistoryPod describes how a seemingly invaluable scientific discovery in 1912 turned out to be a hoax. Use the vocabulary and questions in class to practice your listening and speaking...
15 Online Canva Games for English Class
Canva has some amazing games and activities that you can use in your next TEFL/ESL lesson whether that’s online or in-person. You can sign up to Canva for free here. It’s a great design...