Fun Esl Activities

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bowerbank Maine and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit was short and sweet, to end the TESOL course. It had very good advice for first lessons. That was something not really told to me and I had some bumpy first lessons when I first started teaching. Your first couple of lessons should be fun and a way to formulate trust in the classroom. ESL students need a 'safe' place to practice English and make mistakes. This is how we learn so I establish right from the start that no one makes fun of anyone in this classroom. This is the place we make...  [Read more]

TEFL Lemon began in 2014 as an ESL blog on the WeChat platform in China, quickly becoming the biggest ESL blog on WeChat. TEFL Lemon provided English teachers with ELT articles to read and share, as well as free ESL lesson ideas, ESL games and fun speaking activities which TEFL teachers could use in their classes. English teachers in China could also download free ESL flashcards on a variety of themes. Following their success on the WeChat platform, in 2018, TEFL Lemon decided to build their own website to offer their ESL Flashcard Games for Kids, ESL Warmers, ESL games and speaking activities for teens and adults for free to TEFL teachers around the world. You can visit their website here. Not only do TEFL Lemon offer teachers brilliant ESL games and teaching ideas, but they also have...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rutherford Tennessee and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit introduced three large groups of ESL learners (beginners, young learners, and business English/ESP learners) while also discussing some of the issues and strategies particular to each. The final section on business English/ESP learners was especially informative: between describing the broader logistical issues of class composition and providing guidance on how to carry out a needs analysis, I feel this unit provided a comprehensive theoretical framework for planning a business English...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bennett Iowa and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit discusses the methods of teaching English, both the ones used traditionally and what is recommended to be used by a TEFL student. The 3 stages of the ESL method are Engage, Study & Activate. Engage is a way to warm up a class, in order to reduce student inhibitions and encourage class participation, in a fun manner. This can be done by activities such as word linking, memory game, sentence prompts etc. The Study phase consists of worksheets and activities that focus on language...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Industry Indiana and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit covers the effectiveness of teaching an ESL lesson in the classroom. It includes two videos: the first in which the teacher is less effective, and the second in which the teacher is more effective. I have learned that student participation and comprehension is far more successful when the teacher has a positive attitude and knows their students? names. Additionally, lessons are more effective when the teacher engages students with activities that are based in their existing knowledge, are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Pilgrim Gardens Delaware and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In Unit 12 we learn about teaching productive skills, which are speaking and writing. Within the speaking skills we have both accuracy activities and fluency activities, and both are equally important. It makes sense that the accuracy activities would take place during the study phase, and the fluency activities would take place in the activate phase where they can get creative with the language they are learning. I like the lesson idea for writing because I can imagine it being difficult to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses Patna and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: A.S. – New Zealand said: This unit covers the productive language skills of speaking and writing. It's very important to elicit speaking from students, and to understand that some students may find speaking in class to be particularly difficult. Having activities which are interesting to the students, and creating a comfortable, positive class environment are perhaps the two most important techniques relevant to gaining the participation of students. I had not thought of all the inherent challenges writing...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Nabadwip India and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This was an important unit because if not understood it could cause serious problems for learners. I have learnt that they are different categories of present tenses. This unit gave everything in detail including examples that I can use while teaching. It even gave examples on how to activate when it comes to teaching present tenses. This was very helpful and it's straightforward and easy to master .Writing and speaking are two productive skills ESL learners need to have. Writing helps...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Spain Getafe and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The teacher has constantly to adapt to the students' needs. A good ESL teacher must be able to recognize these common problems and work to find solutions. Especially for the first lesson the teacher has to establish a very good rapport with the students, with survey , questionnaire, specific games and needs analysis. It is also very important the warmers , that are usually short, fun and communicative activities at the beginning of the lesson. When in the classroom there is a different...  [Read more]

Games in the Classroom Teachers and researchers have moved away from the separation of linguistic skills as the best and only way to instruct students learning other languages. Today, more emphasis is being placed on purposeful games in the classroom which create a more carefree and fun environment for its learners. This method, when carefully chosen, produces confidence, creates competition and teammanship, and promotes a desire to win the prize...which is fluency of a 'once' strange language. In the end, everyone wins, since the goal is fluency of a foreign language with a teacher who becomes the hero, because she makes her lessons meaningful and entertaining at the same time. Games can be wonderful communicative device in the classroom setting and should be a central part of educating...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jiangyin and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: L.N. – U.K. said: Using course books has its share of benefits and advantages such as having a well organized content with a consistency in the topics and genres for the four skill area (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Teachers who adopt a course book may also find it easier to teach since most of the preparation, including the types of activities, audios and in some cases, achievement tests, are already done by the publisher. This would be a great help to those inexperienced teachers who are just...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Coventry United Kingdom and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit was helpful in terms of tying up any loose ends that the other units did not address. As all students that a teacher interacts with are new at some point, it provided a lot of creative and fun ideas in terms of 'breaking the ice'. I like the idea of the ball game and will personally be incorporating it into my classroom first day activities in the future.This unit teaches about the different types of present tenses. There are four present tenses which are taught in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Amiens France and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Teaching vocabulary is one of the most challenging role for an ESL educator like me. Planning an engaging lessons based on students level is very important to an engaging and fun class. Whatever the students level, the teacher should create a class where the students can be exposed to the the new words, practice and understand it. By doing so, we can assure that the students can learn something from the topic.In Unit 7: Teaching New Language, I learned a bit more about ESA structures as I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Yixing China and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Speaking and writing are productive skills used for communication. Writing is quite often neglected in ESL classes, but it is an important skill for students to master. Speaking lessons and activities have to be planned in an engaging and fun way for students to participate actively. During speaking lessons accuracy and fluency come at different stages of learning. Accuracy is introduced during study phase and is focused on producing correct language. Fluency comes later during the activate...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Eldoret Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: After this unit, I can conclude that I would rather have a group of multilingual students in all of my classes because I believe it would cut the disruptive native language that always tends to happen, not to mention cut down on the time required to keep their focus. The unit did not actually ask that many questions on the likes of Business English, I would have preferred to look through a decent unit covering just that aspect of teaching simply because I believe it is often overlooked.Writing and...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about College TESOL International and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: J.H. - Germany said: Teaching ESL in a KindergartenThis article will outline the benefits of children learning a second language at the kindergarten level (in this case english) and review some of the recommended methods of teaching english to this age group: 2-6 years. There is an increasing trend for kindergartens to offer a second language. english is the primary choice. The benefits of having ESL at an early age is supported by quantitative and qualitative research and linguistic experts....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brest France and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit introduces planning lessons with a sample lesson plan for me to follow. There is no doubt that the lesson plan plays a vital role in maintaining lesson quality and guiding lesson sequence, especially for a new ESL teacher. In the sample plan, each item from the name of the teacher to the solutions to teacher's anticipated problems is clearly written. I have found that the content of the procedure is really help as I would like to refer to the activities to help me ensure I will accomplish...  [Read more]