Decide, first, whether you would rather have students film a news show or a skit. FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app. Students will need to conceive of the skit and write it.
For a news show, each student will present the daily news or invented news! This option allows students to still experience the multimedia aspect of this activity without having quite as much to prepare. Should you choose the first option, you should allow your students at least four class periods to prepare: one to conceive of their skit, one to rehearse, one to film and one to edit. For the news show, you could conceivably do the activity in just three periods—one to write the show, one to film and one to edit the show.
A murder mystery party can be a fun last day exercise before a big break or vacation. You can make up your own characters or you can use a guide to murder mystery parties to get off on the right track. You can even purchase murder mystery party kits online. The players take turns playing the storyteller.
As the storyteller, you select a card from your hand, play it facedown, and speak a word, phrase, or sentence represented by the picture. The others play facedown the picture card from their own hand which best represents, to them, what has been described. Dixit really gets the students using the English language - sometimes even coming up with incredible stories! The ESL students are able to express themselves in complex imaginative ways that reflect their whole thinking process.
In Taboo , one player has a card listing four words:. The first word is secret. The aim of the game is to get the player to figure out the word. The student with the card will need to describe the word as creatively as possible until another student names it. The other three words on the card are the more obvious words that can be used to describe the secret word. You can create your own sets of words based on the topic your ESL students are studying in class, or you can find sets in your textbook and on the Internet.
The game is similar to Catch Phrase , in which a player tries to get his or her teammates to guess words using verbal clues. Both get your students engaged in learning new vocabulary, while having fun! Your Agora combines teaching material from ESL teachers all over the world, scheduling and grading tools, as well as complete customization for both you and your students, all in one platform.
Edit BG Image. Jun 8, AM. For both beginner and intermediate students, building vocabulary remains an an essential part of learning English. With younger students, throwing in a few animal pictures is often enough to keep them engaged in the learning process. With adults, however, a vocabulary lesson is much more likely to become dull.
The last student standing wins. These seven activities will definitely get your students talking and make your classes interesting at the same time. Send us an email or call us toll-free at to speak with an ITTT advisor today.
Do you want to be contacted to receive more information? Fill out the form, a member of our staff will contact you by phone. Listen to this blog post: 1. Ice Breaker Jenga For this activity, you simply use a tumbling block game such as Jenga and write 1 simple ice breaker question on each block. Mystery Party Guest To play this game, the teacher assigns a mystery identity to about 5 students. Create a Game Have students group up and get them talking to each other by making up their own board game.
Apples to Apples This is a very popular game involving play cards. Variation 3 is for advanced speakers. Separate the class into two teams. Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition to a list of words that they cannot use in their description. Each student should have two to three minutes to see how many words their teammates can guess.
They must describe the picture for their partner to draw. Comic strip descriptions: Give each student a portion of a comic strip. Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order.
After about 10 minutes, the students can guess the order, show one another their portion, and see if they were correct. Secret word: Students are given a random topic and a random word that is unrelated to the topic. The other students listen carefully to the speech and attempt to guess the secret word.
Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each student hold up their paper showing the agree or disagree side depending on their opinion. Choose one student from each side to explain their position and participate in a short debate.
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