Yes/No is a simple game that helps get your class asking and answering questions and doing plenty of speaking and listening‏‎. The beauty of it is that it can be extended! Gameplay Write up on the board YES and NO in bold letters. Now tell your students that these words […]

Writing Prompts is a simple idea to help your TEFL students develop their writing‏‎ skills and stimulate ideas and discussions. It can work with almost any age or level of class and is very flexible. Pictures as Prompts There are many variations of the method, but a simple one is […]

Word Ladder is a simple game invented by Lewis Carroll (author of the Alice books). It’s perfect as a quick 5-minute activity at the end of the lesson and is ideal for practicing and playing with vocabulary. A slight variation has it great for dictionary practice as well. The activity […]

Word Bag is a fun game which helps with semantic fields and vocabulary in general. It’s quick to set up and ideal to keep the class occupied for 10 minutes at the end of a lesson and it is very good for all ages and levels of students. Running the […]

Word Association is a simple 5 minute activity for the end of a lesson. It gets students talking and thinking about vocabulary‏‎. Explain to your students what word association is: when you hear a word, you say another related word that pops into your head. The difference with this game […]