10 Quick Fun 5-Minute ESL / EFL Activities
Each of these games or activities can be completed in about 5 minutes, and while you can use them as fillers, they’re all genuinely educational as well. Each of these games can be played...
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Boat craft for kids in 10 steps!
In this lesson, I am making a boat craft for kids. I am using quite simple materials and a straightforward design for this craft so that anyone can replicate it. Feel free to make...
Advanced Speaking Lesson about Traditions
Use the discussion questions, vocabulary and video for an engaging advanced conversation lesson. *Note: The video contains English-speaking and Mandarin-speaking with English subtitles, so this lesson won’t be good listening practice for Mandarin-speaking students,...
Practice English Listening with this Short Podcast about AI
Listen to a 5-minute podcast from Daily Tech Headlines, review the vocabulary, answer the questions, and have a discussion. This podcast is awesome for anyone looking to improve their tech-related English. This lesson is...
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...
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...
3 Unique Review Games for When You Need Something Different
Sometimes it can feel like we’re doing the same review games over and over. I can’t even hear the words “Running Dictation” without wanting to run for the hills. (Although if you’ve never tried...