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- Tips and Ideas for the First Day of Classes
By Shad Schroeder - Getting to Know You
By Henry Reese - My Classmates
By Charles Kelly & Larry Kelly - What's the Truth?
A good activity for the first class session.
By Carole Allen Poppleton
Autonomy
- Two Activities for Fostering Autonomous Learning
By Galina Kavaliauskiene - Peer and Self-evaluation in Spoken Tests: Tools and Methods
By Alec McAulay - Two Activities for Raising Consciousness of Language Learners' Strategies
By Scott Redfern and Nolan Weil
Business English
- A Simulation for Business English Students (A Six-Unit Course)
By Heather Hanson
Conversation / Oral English
- Ten Conversation Lessons with Stories, Vocabulary Practice, Questions and Activities
By Farzad Sharifian - Ten More Conversation Lessons with Stories, Vocabulary Practice, Questions and Activities
By Farzad Sharifian - Conversation Topic: Work
By Jack Bradshaw - An Information-Sharing Puzzle Activity
By Bob Gibson - Communication in the Classroom (A 5-Lesson Unit)
By Catherine Sasaki - Bones of Contention: "Listed" Role Plays for Students of Oral English
By Stewart Wachs - Activities for Conversation Classes
By Gerard Counihan- Accidents in the Home
- An Activity for Teaching ESL/EFL Students to Make Quick Replies
- An Activity for Teaching Intonation Awareness to ESL/EFL Students
- Are you a Good Socializer
- Discussion Topic: My New Home
- Discussion Topic: The Home
- Election Manifesto
- Finish the Sentence
- Generalisations
- Giving and Accepting Compliments
- Headline Completion
- Life
- Nationalities and Their Stereotypes
- New Year's Resolutions
- People Who Live the Longest
- Possible Dangers Associated With Becoming a Millionaire Overnight
- Predictions for This Year
- Talking about the Top News Stories
- The Environment
- The World Ends in Two Years
- Things That Have Changed the World
- Times Have Changed
- What Type of Student Are You?
- Word Associations
- Talking Cards
A conversation activity using a deck of playing cards.
Michael J. Brown - Two ESL Listening & Speaking Games
"Name That Thought" and "What Is That Sound"
Kimberly Davison-Fujioka - An Activity for Teaching the Purposes of Discourse
By Carole Allen Poppleton - Blurring the Boundary Between Spoken and Written Language in EFL
A Lesson Plan for Teacher Training
By Maria Bortoluzzi - Four Engaging Activities for Large EFL Classes
By Eric Prochaska - The Love Clinic: Using Advice Columns in the Classroom
By Richard Humphries - Activities for College Conversation Classes: The Generation Gap and Getting Along with Peers
By Natalia F. Orlova - Telling True Stories: Blending Multimedia in a Task-based Activity
By Aiden Yeh - Playing with Questions-A Game for Young Learners
By Rania Bekiri - Conversation Questions for ESL Students
A list of questions that you can use for conversation practice.
Cooperative Learning
- Reaching English Language Learners through Cooperative Learning
By Noorchaya Yahya and Kathleen Huie
Culture
- Teaching Awareness of Stereotyping
By Asako Kajiura Goodmacher - A Way to Teach Culture: Guns or No Guns
By Yoshiyuki Nakata - A Way to Teach Culture: Large cups, small cups, whose cups?
By Yoshiyuki Nakata - Developing Awareness: An Intercultural Communication Lesson Plan
By Asako Kajiura - The International Potluck: An Integrated-Skills Cross-Cultural Activity
By Terry N. Williams - Bringing Culture into the Classroom
By Chad Fryer and Lily Wong - A Fun Cultural Indoor Rally
By Angie & Carlos Ruelas - American Fast Food (The Hamburger): A Cultural Lesson
By Khalid Al-Seghayer - Examining Australian and Japanese Stereotypes Via E-mail Exchange
By Rebecca Keogh - Jokes for the ESL Classroom
Jokes which work well in the ESL classroom. Find a good joke or add one to the list. - Using Critical Incidents to Teach Cross-cultural Sensitivity
By Julia Stakhnevich - Table Manners
By Shiao-Chuan Kung - Discussing Cultural Knowledge for Life in the USA
By Rebecca Allen - Using Modern Art to Teach Language and Culture to ESL Students
By Diane Watt - Learning American Holidays Through Greeting Cards
By Grace Chin-Wen Chien - Flags: A Classroom Activity
By Rebecca Belchamber
Games
- Six Games for the EFL/ESL Classroom
By Aydan Ersöz - Write-to-Learn: Geography Strategies
By Daniel Teng-Lung Peng - Using a TV Matchmaking Format in the Classroom
By Richard Humphries - Student Created Crossword Puzzle Exercise
By Greg Goodmacher - Language Learning Games: Gotcha & The Spelling Officer
By Joan M. Diez Cliville - Password Game
By JoEllen Simpson and Jonathan Deer - A Campus Scavenger Hunt for ESL Students
By Linda Hollandsworth - Games and Activities for the ESL Classroom
Find one to use or add one to the list. - Using Games in Teaching English to Young Learners
By Lin Hong - Games and Activities for the English as a Second Language Classroom
This is a page on which teachers can share games and activities that they have found useful in the classroom. - Using Games in Teaching English to Young Learners
By Lin Hong
Grammar
- Grammar Teaching Plan: Real Conditional Sentences
By Jungok Bae - An Activity for Teaching Prepositions Associated with Time
Lily Vered - Classroom Handout: The Order of Descriptive Adjectives
By Yen-Ling Teresa Ting
Internet
- CNN Interactive: Reading, Discussing and Writing
By Amy Ogasawara - Choosing and Summarizing Internet Resources
By Amy Ogasawara - Projects Using the Internet In College English Classes
By Victoria Muehleisen - Internet Treasure Hunts - A Treasure of an Activity for Students Learning English
By Ian Brown - Finding Information on the International Movie Database Website
By Shiao-Chuan Kung - A Virtual Visit to the Guggenheim Museums in New York
By Shiao-Chuan Kung - Who Wrote That?
A lesson using the Project Gutenberg website to search for information.
By Shiao-Chuan Kung - Using a Modular Approach to schMOOze with ESL/EFL Students
By James Backer - Web-based Cultural Lesson: Restaurants & Food
By Emma de Dios Álvarez - Introducing EFL Students to Chat Rooms
By Jo Mynard - ESL Lessons Using Non-ESL Websites
By Bruce Vorland
Listening
- The "Tuning In" Listening Activity
An activity aimed at constructing solid bottom-up skills while developing student self-reliance and confidence.
By Jeff Leinaweaver
Motivation
- Six Activities for Generating Enthusiasm in the Foreign Language Classroom
By Philip Dave Ambard and Linda Katherine Ambard
Music and Songs
- Musical Activities for Young Learners of EFL
By Abdulvahit Cakir - Reviewing Time with the Song 'Rock Around the Clock'
By David B. Kent - Student Created Song Exercises
By Paul A. Cunningham - Digging Deeper into Songs: A Writing Activity
By Steven Kenneth Ahola
Multi-skill
- A Four-Unit EFL Course for Adults
A Complete Set of Handouts to Use in the Classroom.
By Bruce Vorland
Oral Presentation
- Country Presentations
An oral presentation assignment for second or third-year university speaking classes of 20 - 40 students.
By Lillian Swain - Delivering a Persuasive Speech
By Douglas Parker - Evaluation Sheet for ESL/EFL Speech Practice
By Connell Wayne Regner - Preparing EFL Learners for Oral Presentations
By Jane King
Pronunciation
- Practicing Pronunciation through Proverbs
By Yi Yang - Intonation - It Does Matter!
By Rebecca Allen
Reading
- Teaching Culture in Literature in the ESL/EFL Classroom
By Anna Franca Plastina - Teaching the English Newspaper Effectively
By Kenji Kitao - Read Aloud and Spot the Differences
By Greg Goodmacher - The Newspaper Scavenger Hunt
By Greg Goodmacher - A Fun Reading Comprehension Activity
By Mehmet Ali Akg - Teaching the Short Story, "Flowers for Algernon," to College-Level ESL Students
By Loretta Kasper - Using University Catalogues as a Pedagogical Tool
By Paul Borg - Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose
By Carole A. Poppleton - Chocolate - A Reading with Comprehension Questions
By Emma de Dios Álvarez - People Who Crossed Borders: An Interactive Reading Exercise
By Roger Nunn - Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books
By Mei-Ya Liang - Using Advice Columns with ESL Students
By Amy Gwen Larson
Travel Survival
- Innocents Abroad: Training Japanese for Travel
By Eugene Trabich - Travel Advice Bureau
A classroom activity in which students act as travel agents.
By Kate Allen - A Pre-departure Program for Students Who Study Abroad
By Marcel Van Amelsvoort - Invitations and Requests in a Restaurant
By David Dockhorn
Video
- Ideas on Using Videos
By Donna Tatsuki - Is the Movie the Same as the Book?
A classroom activity comparing novels and movies
By Donna Hurst Tatsuki - Teaching the Movie "Men in Black" to ESL Students
By Letitia Bradley - ESL/EFL Lessons Using Movies
By Donna Hurst Tatsuki - Video in the Language Lab: Teaching Vocabulary
By Donna Hurst Tatsuki - Developing an ESP Course Around Naturally-occurring Videotaped Medical Consultations
By Joseph Dias - Watching Movie Trailers in the ESL Class
By Neil Heffernan - Activities for the ESL Classroom Incorporating Reality-based TV
By R. Alan Davis - The Simpsons in Japan: A Lesson on Stereotypes
By Rachelle Meilleur
Vocabulary
- Vocabulary Lesson: If a Runner Runs, Does a Sweater Sweat?
By Rolf Palmberg - The Adjective-Noun Game
By Scott Greene - A Man for Every Purpose - Increasing Learners' Vocabulary Awareness
Activities for the ESL Classroom using the numerous compound words in English that end in 'man'.
By Rolf Palmberg - The Human Body - A Vocabulary Awareness Activity in Four Steps
By Rolf Palmberg - Introducing Euphemisms to Language Learners
By Scott Alkire - A Reading Exercise with Food Related Phrasal Verbs
By Yen-Ling Teresa Ting - A Lesson on Food Idioms
By Yen-Ling Teresa Ting - Similes in the ESL Classroom
By Larry Pudwill - Activities to Teach the Count and Noncount Noun Distinction
By Ron Belisle
Writing
- Global Warming: A Cause and Effect Writing Lesson
By Amy Ogasawara - An Interesting Approach to Writing Introduction Paragraphs
By Darren P. Bologna - Tips for ESL Students on Reviewing and Improving Written Work
By Kristofer Bayne - Using Personal Photographs to Spark Narrative Writing
By Steven Kenneth Ahola - Writing with Style: Two Useful Strategies for Students
By Steven Kenneth Ahola
Other Lessons
- The Outside World as an Extension of the EFL/ESL Classroom
By Mark A. Pegrum - Car Budget Activity
By Lawrence Klepinger - Using Posters in Content Courses
By Michael Furmanovsky & Marc Sheffner - Student-Led Lesson: Vacation Commercials
By Carol Fritsch - Lesson Plan: My Animal
A 2nd-5th grade English/Art lesson plan for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students
By Carolyn Radice - A Story-Telling and Re-Telling Activity
By Bob Gibson - Teacher-made Activities for a Computer-based ESL/EFL Class
By Anil Pathak - Minister of the Environment
By Justin T. O'Conor Sloane - Topic Based Lesson: All Kinds of Failure
By Rhett Merz - A Story Building Activity Using "Not Enough" and "Too Many"
By Michael Lovett - Learning about Prejudice and Discrimination
By Colleen Soares - Gender-Based Vowel Preferences and Their Use As a Teaching Tool
By Cheryl Caesar - Fun Question Rounds for Children's English Classes
By Joe Drakos - Critical Thinking: How Much of You Is You?
By Brent A. Jones - Critical Thinking: What a Character
By Brent A. Jones - Facilitating Discussions of Newspaper Articles in the ESL/EFL Classroom
By Brendan Daly - A Training Lesson Plan on Virtual Communities for EFL
By Maria Teresa Ciaffaroni - Bronx Zoo Lesson Plan for Adult ESL Students
By Virginia E. Clinton - Six Group Activities for Teaching ESL Children
By Joanne Elliott - Discussing Your Name to Develop ESL Presentation Skills
By Beth Clark-Gareca - Self-introduction Lesson Plan for ESL Students
By Stefan Chiarantano - Teaching Abstract Concepts in the EFL Classroom
By Lynn W. Zimmerman
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