Fun Esl Games

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]

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]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Baleshwar 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: Unit 12 continued with specifying the skills the students will be learning, moving onto productive skills. What I liked most was the assertion that writing is just as important as the other three skills (reading, listening, speaking) even if can be harder to make more interesting. The importance of writing- not just scribbling formulaic sentences repetitively, but actual creative writing- was really made clear in the unit. Speaking skills are difficult in an completely different way, where more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Zaragoza 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: Teachers and students alike eventually understand that learning a language is a matter seeing how it is all connected. True fluent ability takes into account all aspects of the language. This unit rightly highlights two areas often neglected: reading and writing. In my experience the ESL classroom is very different from a public school English classroom in this regard. The ESL classroom has long been seen as a place to simply speak the language often omitting reading and writing which reinforce...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Habikino 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 material of this unit was centered on the teaching of the productive skills. The productive skills are two of four basic skills that are present in all languages. These two skill are writing and speaking. The other two skill are known as the receptive skills, reading and listening, and were discussed in Unit 11. This lesson explained the ways in which we could teach these skills and gave us different ways to motivate and encourage the students. Like many of the other units this one...  [Read more]

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