SOME  EFL/ESL TEACHING IDEAS
TEACHING ENGLISH IS FUN
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Here are a few games I found motivating in my classes.

                     
GAMES
1,  Auction,going,going,gone
2,  Double or quits?(coins for correct sentences +new Qs)
3,  Dominoes(wordbuilding)
4,  Expand(say one sentence everybody can add one word)
5,  Cards(you must ask and answer all tenses)
6,  Mistakes dictation(put down only the correct ones)
7,  Wordchain
8,  Bingo on words    and    Noughts and Crosses
9,  Favourite word ->make  a new word
10,Sentence snake
11,Animal habits(Choose a word,draw,say sentence)
12,Scattegories(country-town)
13,Football field
14,Write a word with your finger on A's back and say the plural or the past form
15,Words  (What's the story)
16,Wordrose (wordmap)on the BB about the text,prediction
17,Text-paraphrase the given words
Seven up
18,Aliby
19,Association
20,Draw the missing parts I'm saying(eg.car,body)
21,Picture gallery
22,The picture behind the story(story and draw it)
23,Odd-one-out
24,Fold the paper(What's the story or the answer)
25,Step on the word and say the story or past tense
26,Opposites(eg.ball-mouse=cat's toys)
27,Anagrams:Number for a letter,what's the sentence by the numbers
28,From word to word(plant-vegeteble-organism-structure)
29,You can sit down if................
30,Carry the message(whisper)
31,Lipreading
32,Memory dictation competition
33,Words on the wall
34,Say words Backwards
35,Don't say yes or no
36,Draw a word
37,Guessing(20 Qs)
38,How many things are bigger/rounder/noisier than you?
39,If I had a million dollars
40,I would like to be a........Why?
41,I'm  Martian make an interview with me
42,Memorising words in 20 sec
43,Numbers in my life
44,Picture dictation
45,Rub out and replace(a word in the sentence on BB)
46,Simon Says
47,Unusual view(pictures)
48, Why have you got a monkey in your bag?
49,At one o'clock I feel hungry
50,Hide and seek
51,Run to the BB and touch it if
52,TIC TAC TOE (For Beginning to Intermediate Level Students)
53,THE COFFEEPOT GAME
one student is sent out of the class and the remaining students choose a simple verb  . The student  returns and asks yes-no questions . The word "coffeepot "is provided to substitite the verb. The student then asks:"Do you coffeepot every night?" ; "Do you coffeepot with your ears? " etc.
54,BALL GAME
Students stand up in a circle around the teacher. A ball is thrown to a student and the teacher asks a question, e.g.: "Say an English name". The student then answers and throws the ball  to another student and asks another question. For grammar eg: "Give me the past participle of an irregular verb".
55,LAST LETTER.Say a word with the last letter of a word.
56,WORD ASSOCIATION
5,WHAT iS BEHIND YOU? (Memory Game)
59,WHAT AM I ?Act out a word.



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