Three simple online esl games. Are you ready? Let's get started
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let me know where in the world you're teaching. Ever sit down to plan
your ESL lesson and then suddenly your mind just goes blank?
Yeah, it happens a lot. So today I want to share three simple
online ESL games to help you with your lesson planning.
So, let's get started. For this activity all you're going to need are some
flashcards or pictures of your target vocabulary. To get started review that
target vocabulary one by one laying out the flashcards of each word
as you do. Banana, banana, banana, banana,
apple, apple, oh apple
Next, start the game by saying I went to market and I bought... and then picking one
of your keywords. For example, I went to market
and I bought some bananas. Next, your student then repeats that back
to you. I went to market and I bought some bananas
and then adds on an extra word. For example... I went to market
and i bought some bananas and apples.
Keep going again and again until your list gets really long
and either you or your student forgets one. Now, you can make this game either
harder or easier by either removing the flashcards
as you use those words or leaving them in place.
Think about your students and their level and what would be best for them.
This game is super simple and to play all you're going to need are some
pictures or flashcards of your target vocabulary.
Start by reviewing your flashcards one by one using chants and TPR as you do.
Next, you're going to place three flashcards out for your students to see
using a sentence as you do. I like to eat bananas,
bananas. I like to eat
apples, apples. Make sure that one card really stands
out and sounds particularly odd when used with that sentence.
I like to eat cars beep beep,
cars beep beep. Ask your students which one they think
is the odd one out and depending on their level, you can
have them use that word in the correct sentence.
For this activity all you're going to need are two pictures of your target
vocabulary with some subtle differences. Now, you can make these differences as
obvious or subtle as you like depending on your student's level.
Start by introducing that key vocabulary one by one again using chance and TPR
as you do. Next, introduce two similar looking flashcards
and ask students to spot the difference. Try and encourage students to reply
using a set sentence structure, for example,
this one has... this one doesn't have... What the difference? What's
the difference? hmm
What can you see? What difference... This one
has color and this one doesn't have color! Good job!
Be sure to adjust the difficulty and sentence structures to suit your
students' level of English. So there you have it, three simple online ESL
games to help you with your lesson planning.
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