Reading aloud

      These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

      Average: 3.6 (30 votes)

      Lexical Approach Classroom Activities

      These activities are only available as a download because they are fairly long and provide full reading texts. They are related to the article - Lexical Approach 1 - - What does the lexical approach look like?

      Average: 3.7 (32 votes)

      Action research

       Action research can make you a "student of teaching" (John Dewey).

      Average: 3.9 (30 votes)

      Teaching large classes

      Large classes are a reality in many countries and they pose particular challenges. This article suggests ways to help discipline, to use group work and to cope with limited resources.

      Average: 3.5 (17 votes)

      From mother tongue to other tongue

      The issue of whether or not to use the mother-tongue (L1) in the English language (L2) classroom is complex. This article presents the results of a survey into student attitudes towards the use of L1 in class and some suggestions for using the L1 and its culture as a learning resource.

      Average: 3.9 (22 votes)

      One word story

      This activity is extremely simple. Each student adds a word to create a group story. Despite the simplicity it can be really challenging and I would only use it with higher levels.

      Average: 3.8 (40 votes)

      Conversational English

      This low-level activity exploits one of the listening dialogues from our Audio bank and shows how the script and audio files can be used to develop students' speaking abilities.

      Average: 3.6 (16 votes)

      Rhyming pair game

      This activity is a pronunciation and memory game. It works best if you split the class into small groups. You will need to produce a set of cards for each group with one word on each card.

      Average: 3.4 (26 votes)

      Picture dictation

      This is a low preparation fun activity that works well with large classes, especially with young learners and teens. All your students need is a blank piece of paper and all the teacher needs is a little bit of imagination.

      Average: 4.1 (37 votes)

      Songs, symbols and lyrics

      I am an English teacher in Brazil and I really enjoyed finding this site because it has helped me by giving me tools to use while teaching, such as activities, games and useful tips. I would like to write about an activity

      Average: 3.2 (22 votes)
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