Important Information
Posting Rules and Welcome Message
Welcome to this new TEFL ideas-sharing website. Please help yourselves to the ideas herein, and check out the posting rules below - please also register a user account via the sidebar on the left so you can add your own ideas, as well: this site will be as useful as you make it!
ABOUT THIS SITE:
Navigating [...]
Latest Ideas and Plans
Creating Lessons from Scratch
40 minute revision games - prepositions of place and movement»Note: this is a splice of an activity I found in Trouble with Prepositions, Articles, Nouns and Word Order? and another I found on the British Council’s teaching English website, here. The vocabulary revised relates to household furniture.
Preparation:
Materials: whiteboard; pens; a rucksack or bag; some objects (e.g., pens, tapes - the usual equipment you might [...]
Note: I came up with this simple activity today. It should take about 12 minutes or so, and leads naturally into an interview-style lesson.
Materials: Whiteboard and pens.
Preparation: None.
Procedure:
Board the following, in two columns:
The place
The person
The food
The country
The animal
I’d most [...]
Advanced - adverb placement practise (1hr 30 minutes)»Notes: This is adverb placement revision and practise. It is aimed at advanced levels, or upper-intermediate, and makes use of instinct in deciding what sounds good; I’ve found that it’s good to encourage students’ language awareness in this way.
Preparation: exercises 1 and 2 below, cut up and separated, and this "adverb placement" rulesheet - enough [...]
Using Coursebooks Creatively
Listening/Speaking: 4-Way Dictation» Note: This idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri (used with permission). I’ve found it to be a very useful way of practicing clear articulation, splitting sentences into meaningful chunks ("connected speech"), listening, writing, and various vocabulary, spelling and grammatical points.
Preparation: copies of a medium-length coursebook tapescript, cut into four sections of equal [...]
Note: this idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook, by Mario Rinvolucri. It is used here with permission.
Preparation:
Make copies of a reading passage from the last unit covered in your coursebook. I find it useful to enlarge the copies to about 110%.
Instructions:
Text-Stripping
Give each student a copy of the reading passage.
Ask them to delete all the adjectives;
Ask [...]
Note: I found a close relation to this activity in 700 Classroom Activities by David Seymour and Maria Popova (Oxford: Macmillan, 2005)
Preparation: A coursebook topic title; some questions. Lesson:
Ask the students to help you push any classroom tables back against the walls.
Group the students into two circles: an inner circle facing outwards, and an [...]
