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 [...]
Note: I THINK this idea is my own; the seeds for this game come from Keep Talking by Friederike Klippel, and my own boredom with conventional "list" games (wherein students individually order a pre-defined list and then compare preferences, trying to agree a final order), which I believe are a little over-used in the EFL [...]
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 [...]
Note: this idea comes from Jackie Jays, courtesy of the smokers’ corner at St Giles London Central. It’s a really good one to use with new classes, or old classes with a new teacher.
Preparation: None.
Materials: whiteboard; enough whiteboard pens for each group of 3 to 4 students.
Procedure:
Tell your students that today they can ask [...]
