EFL Resources for Teachers
Why? Because! This writing and speaking activity usually produces some unexpected laughs! Students quickly write some “why” questions and answers on slips of paper. I let them know that their questions and answers don’t have to match or make sense. They then take turns choosing random questions and answers to read aloud, producing some surprising results! Why is the sky blue?Because I’m so Read More…
What’s Baamboozle? If you don’t need a tutorial, there’s a big free game at the end of this post! If you haven’t heard of Baamboozle before, it’s a Jeopardy-style question & answer game that can be played from a web browser. It’s good for vocabulary, reading, or grammar reviews. When adding questions and short answers, you can add points (5, 10, 15, 20, 25) and images by file or URL: Read More…
A little history first! The Exquisite Story is a simple writing activity based on the Surrealist drawing game, the Exquisite Corpse. When studying Fine Arts at university, this was a favorite pastime of my friends and I! While I wouldn’t recommend drawing games for EFL classes, I think the original game is too interesting to not share: The Exquisite Corpse In the drawing version of Read More…
I recently taught a class (~B2) by using For Sale Signs as a template for a vocabulary review challenge. Our reading was about animals, so I used that as our starting point. You could alternatively use your own vocabulary lists or random things. The Activity Students first chose a Random Animal, as pictured below: Screenshot from: https://www.randomlists.com/random-animals After Read More…
