in today's video I'm gonna share with you some online activities that require
little to no prep for your English language learners and if you're new here
I want to let you know that I make weekly teaching tips on resources
strategies and games for English language learners
please say hello in the comments section below and let me know what country you
live in and what grade you teach it can be daunting finding online interactive
activities that you can actually share your screen and show your students in an
online teaching session so what I've done is I streamline that process and I
found five activities that you can also edit and share with your students in a
teaching session if you miss my video on xoom teaching as well as how to create a
breakout room be sure after watching this video to check out these videos the
first game that is online that you can play with their students is jeopardy and
the beauty of this game is that there is already a built-in template that you can
edit and you can match it with whatever concepts and ideas that you are
currently working on with your students so there is a free template that I have
included in the description below for this game of Jeopardy and how it works
is that you decide what are the topics that you want to cover with your
students and it's all editable in a PowerPoint document and you can go into
every single slide and you determine what is the question and the answer that
all your students have to answer correctly and you can divide your
students into various groups you can divide them in pairs and once the game
is ready to go you just play it as a regular PowerPoint and then you get to
go into zoom and you can actually share your screen so that students can see it
and they can interact with you as the end of the questions the next activity
involves matching and it's an interactive matching game that you can
incorporate a lot of different subject and content areas involving language for
your students similar to the Jeopardy game you have a PowerPoint presentation
that is the actual matching game and each of the elements are movable and you
can save a lot of documents and files and you can if you're doing a picture
game for example where the students have to match a picture with a definition you
can open those up and load them into the file
and you can then adjust it so that it fits in every square and make sure to
right-click with your mouse and then send to back so that the number cards
are covering each of the answers or the the items that they're going to match
you're gonna continue doing that for every single one of the squares and
what's really important is that you'll see in a minute the reason why this has
to be sent to back because those little red circles actually signify their
function is to close them so when you open each one you click on any area
other than the red button but to close you're gonna press the red button
when to online games and activities do you do with your students please comment
in the comment section below game categories you're going to have your
students take a piece of paper and they're going to make five columns and
those columns they're going to have a different heading like candy through
whatever they like and then you're going to call out a letter and they have to
find as many things for each category that starts with that letter
but you they're very different variations of the game and you can get
really creative the next resource I'm going to share with you it's not
necessarily an activity but it's a platform that you can use to engage your
students and it's called flip grid and the beauty of this is that you can
actually assign activities where students have to speak and interact with
you and they can record themselves and it gets sent directly to you so that you
can provide feedback so let me just show you really quick how this works with
grid is the free online platform in which you are going to create a username
password for all your students you're going to pre-populate them into flipgrid
and then you're going to share with them a flip grid code that is associated with
a task so for example this is what's in your bag task and each student once they
enter they're going to be asked to enter the specific code that is associated
with a particular class which in this one I did with one students are going to
then click on the plus sign and they're going to be asked to record
themselves but they can cover the video camera if they don't feel comfortable
showing their faces on camera they can record themselves they click on next and
then it automatically saves it and then what ends up happening is that it gets
uploaded into that same task file so that then you can see all of your
students and students will be prompted to save it and give it a title which I
usually ask them to name the name of the task that they're doing and they're off
to doe and last but certainly not least is a fun game of Kahoot and this one I
believe your students are going to enjoy the most
it is very interactive and they're going to feel like they're in an online
session game with you and their partners and there's very friendly competition so
let me show you how it works that by step so that you're able to set it up
and then have an interactive session with your students who is an interactive
multiple choice game where students and honestly answer questions and their
answers appear on the screen when you sign up with Kahoot you're going to make
sure that you give each of your students the pin code that is associated with the
specific game that you choose and you find a game by going under discover and
then once you do that you share the pin code your students will then download
the app on their phone enter the pin code and then there you want to share
your screen on zoom' so that they can actively play the game and that's it for
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