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Alphabet Boxes. Here is a great class activity I came across recently
called Alphabet Boxes: You need 26 baby wipe boxes / tissue
boxes, various items to go with each letter (e.g. apple magnet for
the letter A) & permanent marker. Write the upper and lower
case letter on each wipe box, one letter of the alphabet for each
box. Get your Ss to fill each box with items that begin with
that letter. Some can even be pictures of items (this can be
done slowly over a matter of weeks/months). Each class show the
items to the children and pass them around, this captivates the
children! One box is used at a time. You don't even have to
fill all the boxes at once but fill them as you go through the year.
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Using Worksheets in Class.
Worksheets (or handouts) are a great resource to use in the
classroom. Before letting Ss loose on the worksheets it is
very important to show them what to do. Hold up the sheet so
all can see it and actually start working on the sheet. It may
be necessary to complete the whole sheet first or just some of the
sheet if it seems your Ss can understand what to do. Whilst
demonstrating, involve your Ss: ask them for the answers, or even
ask them what color you should use. After giving out the
worksheet make sure your Ss get in the routine of writing their
names on the sheet (they can get mixed up easily) and then walk
around and monitor, asking questions and giving lots of praise and
encouragement. If your group is small enough you can do the
worksheet along with the Ss, joining in with their activity.
At the end, ask each S some questions about their worksheet and
again give lots of praise. |
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Christmas. This page is packed full of Christmas games and
activities to use in an ESL kids class:
Click
here. There are also links to popular Christmas
songs. |
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Thanksgiving. We've
added a free new section dedicated to Thanksgiving!
Click
here. You can find Thanksgiving games and
activities ideas to use in your ESL classroom as well as lots of
links to useful Thanksgiving websites. |
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Halloween. We've
added a free new section dedicated to Halloween! Click
here. You can find over 25 Halloween games and
activities ideas to use in your ESL classroom as well as lots of
links to useful Halloween websites. |
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Teaching
Clothes (Pt 3). Pick
up some clothing catalogs and bring them to class. Have your
Ss look through them and cut out and paste clothing pictures onto
construction paper. |
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Teaching
Clothes (Pt 2).
Another
fun thing to do for teaching clothes vocabulary is to bring in
teddies, dolls or action characters that have their own clothes.
You can then play dress up with your Ss whilst eliciting the
clothes vocab. |
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Teaching
Clothes (Pt 1). When
teaching clothes vocabulary it's great fun to bring in a big bad
of old (but clean!) adult sized clothes as kids just love to play
dress up. Put the bag in the middle of the room and shout
"Put on a T-shirt!" and your Ss have to race to the bag,
pull out a T-shirt each and put it on. Continue with all the other
clothing vocabulary you are teaching. |
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Flashcard
Coloring. Recently
a few members have sent in the following idea: instead of
printing out the color flashcards from this site to use in class
print out the black & white flashcards (all the flashcard
images are available in color and black & white). Then
have your Ss color the flashcards in class. This allows the
Ss to focus more on the picture (and its corresponding word) and
they will then hopefully be able to internalize it better.
Not only that - coloring flashcards is fun! |
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Teaching
Days of the Week. Get
a big calendar and use it to elicit/teach the days of the week.
Follow up with some games: 1. clapping and chanting the days in
order (speeding up each round), 2. march around the classroom
chanting the days, 3. speed rounds (who can run through the days
of the week the fastest?), 4. pass a ball around - as each S
receives the ball s/he must say the next day (if s/he makes a
mistake s/he is out of the round), 5. write each day on a large
sheets of paper, stick the sheets around the classroom walls and
have all Ss stand in the center of the room. T shouts out
week days and Ss race to touch the relevant sheet. 6. Then
have the Ss put the days of the week in order - give each S one of
the sheets and get them to line up Sun through to Sat. |
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Classroom
Mailbox. A
great way to encourage writing (as well as an authentic task
writing activity) is to set up a classroom mailbox. A
cardboard box with a letter hole will do fine (you can even get
your classes to paint/decorate it) which is easily accessible for
all students. Students can write English letters and
postcards to their classmates and their teacher. The teacher
can also send letters to students. This is great as kids
love to find letters waiting for them. |
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