Remember, Remember, the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. Mixed up fire idioms Bonfire Night vocabulary Scatter Sheet (see Scatter Sheets post) Useful texts V for Vendetta plot summaries (IMDB) Bonfire Night 2015: Why do we celebrate fireworks night? Who […]
Here’s a spooky mix of Halloween activities and worksheets taken from different sections of our site. Don’t forget to turn down the lights and put on some atmospheric music to create a perfectly chilling atmosphere. Teaching Online For online Halloween activities, see our sister site LearnHip.com Halloween Half Crossword Pairs of students are each given […]
Find someone who is a fun and engaging activity which is perfect for helping your adult ESL students practice their English skills while getting to know their classmates. It’s a great way to break the ice on the first day of class, build a sense of community, and improve conversational skills. How to run a […]
This is a fun way to practise comparative adjectives and superlatives using Venn diagrams. Introducing and sorting adjectives In the first part of this activity, adjectives are sorted into one of two areas on a Venn diagram. If they could apply to both areas they are placed into the overlapping middle area. See the examples […]
This is a free-speaking group-discussion activity where control of the class is turned over to the learners who take it in turns to moderate the conversation. Teaching Online Instead of using a cup, use the Random Topic Generator. Give students control of the shared screen and for five minutes each, students can generate topics which […]
Scatter Sheets are versatile and engaging tools for vocabulary enhancement, perfect for warm-ups, theme introductions, vocabulary presentations, and fluency exercises. They can also be effectively utilized in online teaching environments. To create your own online scatter sheet, explore our scatter sheet maker. What is a Scatter Sheet? A Scatter Sheet features an assortment of words […]
This is a fun preposition game which enables learners to practice and uncover new prepositions of position as well as picking up some useful new vocabulary. It requires a bit of effort to prepare but this is usually rewarded by a heightened level of involvement and output from the learners. Two groups (of one to […]
Alphabet and spelling games to help English Learners with their A to Z. Hangman Think of a word and draw some dashes on the board, one for each letter __ __ __ __ __ __, each student in turn names a letter that they think might be in the word. If the letter is in […]
This ESL classic is often given as a suggested activity for practising the past continuous tense. However, in my experience, students often revert to the past simple in the heat of the moment. Nevertheless, it’s still an often hilarious game which encourages inventive thinking while posing and answering questions. Inform students that a terrible crime […]
I found this pronunciation game on The Internet TESL Journal, it’s a great way of drawing attention to, and practising, vowel sounds. Click on the pronunciation tab above for more pronunciation activities.. For this activity, you will need a list of ten one syllable words which differ only in the vowel sound. Here are some examples. Choose […]
