An ESL Teachers Best Friend – The Top 5 Books for Classroom Activities
Engaging you students so they actively want to learn and stay focused is one of your most valuable skills as an ESL teacher. Games, quizzes, puzzles and other activities help them learn without realising they are learning. While questions, conversation topics and fun sayings add some laughter and help boost confidence as they build fluency in their English-speaking abilities. All of the above assist your students grow their knowledge across all facets of the English language no matter their level. These books are great tools for you as a teacher to help your students soar to new heights with fun and laughter in an engaging way.
Helping to fill the gaps when your students finish early, or some are more advanced and working too far ahead. This is the lifesaver to pull from your top drawer. Broken into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced sections for quick reference there are heaps of games and activities to choose from. Easy to understand, after once or twice through they are designed so that students can run an activity themselves. This is highly beneficial if your time is needed with other students. Whiteboard games, quizzes, puzzles, teasers and riddles. The perfect book so you are never stuck again!
Whether you’re looking for Team Based or Turn Based games, this book has them all. Broken into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels, every section has games designed for that level. Repetition or Remembering, Speaking or Spelling, there are a multitude of games to help with whatever your student needs. Captivating your class and engaging them with fun activities, this book is a great tool helping them to learn. It was designed to help teachers one on one or with groups at every level.
Because adult students like games too! Designed to not only help with language learning but also deal with bigger issues. Adults and late teens often have a desire to express themselves quicker. Or a need to in their working environment so this book also address’ these issues and can help with frustrations, shyness, anxiousness and unpredictable class attendance. Instead these games are designed to make them engaged and turn them back to learning instead of their focus being elsewhere.
Fun, laughter and refreshing their concentration is the name of the game when teaching children. All the usual reading, writing, listening and speaking games are covered in these sections alongside additional elements like group size, age and level. Attention grabbers and karaoke, there are games for loud students and shy students and everything in between. Easy games for beginners and more flexible activities for any level or group are included as well as pair work, group work or solo. It also has helpful websites for games and ideas.
ESL Drama Start consists of over one hundred drama games and plays that can be use in the English language classroom. Drama games are a perfect tool to use in any classroom that encompasses multiple learning styles, ability levels and age groups. In addition, the activities in this book help ESL students to access active language in an effective and imaginative way. The activities in this book facilitate students’ ability to learn in different ways as visual learners, auditory learners
and kinaesthetic learners.
and kinaesthetic learners.
Pre-intermediate,
Middle school (ages 11-14),
High school (ages 15-18),
Business English,
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