Posted by serenden in actions, present-progressive, questions-asking, role-playing, sentence-making, verbs, vocabulary-any, warm-up.
Aims: -ing verbs
From Three Wise Monkeys
Materials: none
Three Wise Monkeys gives a number of different ways to use this activity to practice various ways of using verbs in different tenses.
HINTS: Use with a high-energy class only. Try for warm-up.
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Posted by serenden in listening, present-progressive, simple-present, stories.
From Karin’s ESL Partyland
Aims: -ing verbs / listening / description / simple present/present progressive.
Materials: plain sheets of paper
Students listen to your description of a place, or a story, then draw what they hear. Great idea. Go to this activity »
THOUGHTS: Good for studying location/ colors, etc…
Posted by serenden in actions, present-progressive, questions, role-playing, sentence-making.
From Dave’s ESL Cafe
Aims: present progressive verbs
Materials: none
A really fun charades activity. The students come up to the front of the room in pairs, and trade off actions by asking “what are you doing?”, and then the other student answers, for example, “I’m brushing my teeth”, as they are acting out running in place, etc. Then the student who asked must begin acting out “brushing their teeth”, and the play goes on. Fun, fun. Go to this activity »
Posted by serenden in feelings, present-progressive, role-playing.
From Dave’s ESL Cafe
Aims: -ing verbs / emotions
Materials: 2 envelopes with verbs / emotions
A fantastic charades-like game where the students act out an emotional action, and the group must figure out both the emotion and the action. Go to this activity
HINT: I’ve tried this with my adult conversation class, and they had a lot of fun. It may be a little more difficult to get younger school kids, particularly junior high or high school kids, to perform, but if they do, it’s pretty fun.
Posted by serenden in present-progressive, questions, role-playing, sentence-making, sports, verbs.
Aims: any / verbs / can & can’t
Materials: verb cards
Make little cards each with a verb written on it, such as…”swimming”. Have 2 teams. Invite one person to the front. He/She chooses a card from the hat…reads it privately…then must act this verb to their team…the hands go up…you choose a person from the actors team first…if they get it correct, that team gets a point…if not then you choose a hand from the other team and vice versa until the action is identified with an English word. You can expand the game by using simple and amusing language forms on the cards, such as “I can’t swim”. The correct answer will be “you can’t swim”. Good fun and not dissimilar to “Whose line is it anyways” guess the Ailment of the Partygoer game, (an expansion possibility with adjectives thrown in the mix).
HINTS: Could be fun with a high-energy class.
Posted by serenden in present-progressive, simple-present.
From Karin’s ESL Partyland.
Practice simple present and present progressive for present time actions.
Materials: magazines or pictures from magazines
A great way to quiz students on their listening ability as well as descriptions. Go to this activity »
Posted by serenden in places, present-progressive.
From Karin’s ESL Partyland
Materials: none
To practice present progressive / describe present time actions.
Students describe what’s happening in a mystery place, and the rest of the group tries to guess where they are. Go to this activity »
