Resources
This section is all about resources. Things to help you get your students to be active learners and keep them interested in learning English.
Games to make learning more fun - Classic games like Pictionary are perfect for engaging students. Why not mix it up a bit and show them a word that they have to draw on the white board or piece of paper for their peers to guess?
- Break up solid blocks of work with short discussions about the next topic - Begin each day/class with a brain game to engage students from the start. This could be a discussion about the weekend then students remembering what their peers did over the weekend or a 'find the mistakes' worksheet (find the mistakes could also be done on a whiteboard and students are to correct the paragraph with markers). - play 'musical chairs' - move students around the classroom for each different activity. - Have a cup of popsicle sticks with games on them. When there is time between activities or students need a bit of a break, choose a game. The games could be as simple as 'heads-down thumbs-up' - Play 'pens down, turn around' - similar to pictionary but played on a whiteboard and sometimes with different types of words (eg. verbs, nouns, adjectives). Students are to draw a puicture that describes that word on the board and their peers have to guess the word. Have a scavenger hunt that relates to the topic of the next activity. Allow students to find objects and guess the activity/topic. Turn large chunks of information into a game. Read the paragraph first then give the students strips of paper with the sentences on them for students to arrange in order in pairs or groups. If students are having trouble understanding a topic, make it a game. Ask students to break down the information in front of them. Get them to think about the task/topic, pair with a partner and collaborate, present the ideas to the class. |
Engaging Things |