The Warm Up Game can be used to literally warm up the class and is ideal for teaching new vocabulary, especially to younger students. An added bonus is that it gets the children going first thing in the morning and wears them out a little! How to Play It’s a […]

The Story Telling Stick is a simple activity which you can use in your TEFL class to develop a story and get the whole class talking and listening. It’s ideal for lower-intermediate level and upwards and can be used with both smaller and larger classes. Background Traditionally some Native American […]

The Price is Right is a popular television game which can be adapted for the EFL classroom. It’s ideal for a class who are learning numbers and simple objects. Preparation Get some flashcards and on each one have an everyday object; on the reverse put the price in local currency. […]

Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb […]

This is a “show and tell” activity for the TEFL teacher who wants to encourage young learners to produce language in a natural way and create a more spontaneous response than the traditional “repeat after me” approach. How it works Take a large cloth bag (a black bin liner will […]