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These are some fun cards you can use to practice debates in your ESL classes. Cut out the cards, students pick the card and should give their opinion on the statements written on it.
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Conversation Cards about Experiences - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These are fun conversation cards about experiences. Have your students pick a card, read out the questions and answer them.
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Tefl reviews - Tefl Video Idioms/blue Collar - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The idiom "blue collar" refers to manual labor or industrial work. The term comes from the usually blue overalls manual laborers would wear in factories etc
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How Might Language Teachers Productively Blur the Line Between Tasks, Games, and Testing? - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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In the following essay, I consider something like a continuum from task to the game to assessment, but only in the bookend learning moments of "input" and "output." I often think of learners in my classrooms as a gray box—not quite a "black box," the inner workings of which are completely mysterious, but a thing into which we only ever have uncertain, provisional insight. We can do all sorts of theorizing about language acquisition and psychometry but will never have anything as exact as a litmus test. However accurate my notion is, it motivates me to focus on things that are much more knowable and observable: the inputs and outputs of a learning situation.
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Teacher as a Medium of Real Life Communication
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Conversation Cards about Christmas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards about Christmas are ideal for classes before the winter holidays.
Print out this sheet and cut out all cards individually and play it with your ESL class. Students take turns picking cards and starting conversations about the questions on the cards.
For big classes: Divide the class into groups and hand one sheet / set of cards to each group. Have the students play the conversation cards among each group.
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Future: Going To - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here some verb cards to practice the "going to" future with your ESL students.
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Would You Questions for ESL Students - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These are some fun conversation cards with "Would you" questions for your ESL students.
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Talk for a minute about - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This "Talk for a Minute" topics activity is a great game to develop fluency and bring some fun into the ESL classroom.
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Likes and Dislikes Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Cut out the cards. Students work in pairs, put the cards face down and Like-Dislike cards face up on the desk. Then they take turns and say whether they like something or not and explain why.
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Talk for 1 Minute About - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Passive Voice Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of 8 printable cards with questions to practice the passive voice.
Have your students work in parks or groups and interview each other. This activity aims to improve your students' speaking skills and their use of grammar.
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Talk About Love Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Let’s talk about LOVE! Here are fun ESL conversation cards for elementary to intermediate level students.
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Future Perfect Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here are some great printable speaking cards aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
Have your students work in pairs or teams. Have them take a card and interview each other on the given questions. This activity is aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Sport - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Traveling - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Jobs - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Speaking Activity: Conversation Cards about Books - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Using speaking cards is a great way to encourage conversations among ESL learners. The cards act as guides to give the students a direction in their conversations. Below you will find conversation cards about books and reading for your ESL classroom.
Let's take a look at all of the questions and possible answers.
Possible answer: I recently finished reading the first book of the Outlander series. It's a fantastic book about an English woman from 1945 who travels back in time to Scotland in 1745. The story is very compelling and the characters' personalities are very well thought-through.
Possible answer: One of my favorite books is "The Da Vinci Code" written by Dan Brown. Even though it is a fictional story, Dan... [Read more]
Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of cards to practice unreal conditionals questions and short answers with your ESL students. They work in pairs or groups and interview each other.
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5 Perfect Activities With Flashcards - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Flashcards on its own is an easy method to apply when teaching beginners, teenagers even adults because they can match the words to the pictures and it's an easy way to remember new vocabulary. I think this is the best way of acquiring a new word of a second language because identification and recognition is the key.
1. Ask, Guess and Answer
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2. Display Flashcards on the Floor
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3 From Here to There
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4. Rhyme Concentration
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5. Puzzling Words
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Let's talk about the NEWS - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and two vocabulary matching exercises (one with pictures). The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions.
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18 Dialogs to Practice the Past Simple - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here is a collection of dialog cards to practice the correct usage of the past simple tense.
Cut out the dialog cards and hand them out to your students, who form answers using the past simple tense.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Food - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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TEFL TESOL: 24/7 Customer Care Assistance & Tutoring - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
At ITTT we put a strong emphasis on customer care as we know that getting all the information you need and then choosing the right course to suit you can sometimes be a difficult task. If you have any questions regarding our TEFL courses or have any other pre-course queries, you can contact us via a wide range of convenient platforms. Our online contact form is a simple and effective way of sending your questions in and we will do our best to get back to you promptly with all the answers you need. You can also chat to one of our friendly and knowledgeable staff members via WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. On our contact page you will find several phone numbers that you can contact us on directly, depending on your location. You can even arrange a call back from us at a specific... [Read more]
New Year's Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great speaking task to develop fluency for talking about New Year's Eve, the past year, and the year to come. Have your students take turns to choose a card and ask the question to their partner/group.
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Easter Matching Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun activity to place with your ESL students during Easter. Hand out the cards and have your students find their Question/Answer match.
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Let's Talk About Education - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and a matching exercise. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. Can be used with both young learners and adults (pre-int to upper-intermediate). Suitable for older teens, university students, and adults due to the more serious nature of this topic.
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7 Great Games for Your ESL Conversation Class - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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Teaching speaking skills is an important part of an ESL class. Sometimes, entire conversation classes are established that focus solely on speaking. Here are 7 great games for your ESL conversation class.
1. Mystery Party Guest
2. Choose Your Victim
3. Ice-breaker Jenga
4. 20 Questions
5. Apples to Apples
6. Get to Know You Bingo
7. Create A Game
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Write down the names and key points about five celebrities and assign them to the same amount of students in your classroom. One by one, a student enters a "party" with another student playing the host. The host must then find out the identity of each guest by having a conversation with everyone.
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ESL Speaking Activity about Animals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These speaking cards about animals are ideal for teen ESL students to practice speaking or can be used as class openers or finishers and even as writing prompts.
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7 Fun Activities for Teaching Vocabulary in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Teaching Ideas
You will find the web full of ideas for teaching vocabulary and, although most of them are undoubtedly good activities, some are only suited to a particular level. Here are some tried and tested activities that can be adapted to suit any level of student and a variety of class sizes.
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1. Hot seat
2. Beat the clock
3. Crosswords
4. Board games
5. Slow Pictionary
6. Vocabulary tennis
7. Pelmanism ("Concentration")
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This is a great activity that can be used as a warm-up at the beginning of a class, or as a game at the end of a lesson. It's suitable for any class size over 4 students and requires minimal... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Overview Of All English Tenses Present Tenses Present Perfect Continuous Comparing Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Here's an idea for teaching the present perfect continuous tense. However in this activity what the students will be doing, is comparing and contrasting this tense with the present perfect tense. This is something that a teacher will want to do after they've explored both tenses and because both tenses are quite confusing, we'll ask the students to compare and contrast the two, making sure that they can tell the difference. In this activity, the teacher will have cut out each individual card. The teacher will distribute the cards to the students and after a minute has gone by, the teacher will then ask the students to fold their cards over and get into a pair. One student in the pair will then present a certain result and ask the student to form the question. Here, with the prompts... [Read more]