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This is a perfect project for all classes in middle and high school. You can take it to the next level by asking the whole school to start a competition for the best class magazine.

You can ask your class to select a theme of environmental, health, literary, or societal topic.

Then ask them to gather all skills; idea-generation, writing, design, and presentation. You will get the most benefits if you make it mandatory for every student to produce content for one page of the magazine. (You can include the advertisement activity within the activity of class magazine.)

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So, you are looking for interesting and creative English project ideas to spice up your lessons?

Here are 18 practical projects that will help your students get creative while enhancing their written and communicative English skills. These are applicable to your middle school and high school students.

Creative English Project Ideas

Advertisement

Test your students' creativity by asking the them to make an advertisement for inventions of their own. Or they can stick to readily available products within the market.

Ask them to start with the connection: how their product will solve the issue of their ideal customers. Tell them that the best advertisements trigger consumers' emotions. Let them use powerful adjectives to inspire their fictional customers.

Elevator Pitch

Like advertisement activity, this project also focuses on commercial communication. You would like to assign this project only to high school students because of the amount of research that goes into it.

Start by asking students to review successful elevator pitches of successful startups.

Detail the necessary information and persuasive tactics.

Ask them to create their own business model or select one from vast startups present in the business world.

The last step is to present the whole concept in 3 minutes or less.

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Abstract Word Art Activity

If you're looking for a fun group project for 4 or more kids, wacky abstract word art activity is just the ticket. Offering writing practice and grammar review, this isn't your average art project.

Kids practice building sentences with different parts of speech, then create paintings of the silly mad-lib sentences they come up with. In an unexpected fun twist, at the end they get to rip up their paintings and arrange them into wild and unique abstract collages.

Autobiographies

In this fun project, you ask the students to detail their life history in an interesting tone. To avoid monotone, ask them to only include those events in life which they consider adventurous or unforgettable.

Ask them to highlight emotions rather than timeline.

You can add a twist to the exercise by asking them to write their ideal future life in an epilogue.

Book Clubs

This project will focus on verbal communication skills.

Ask the students to select a book or excerpt from a book to read. You can assign a genre to keep the communication streamlined.

Students can take turns to give a short review of their reading together with their viewpoints about it. They can talk about the moral values of the characters or change endings or events to discuss if the plot becomes more entertaining with these changes.

Check out these ideas on how to run a successful Book Club!

Class Magazine

This is a perfect project for all classes in middle and high school. You can take it to the next level by asking the whole school to start a competition for the best class magazine.

You can ask your class to select a theme of environmental, health, literary, or societal topic.

Then ask them to gather all skills; idea-generation, writing, design, and presentation. You will get the most benefits if you make it mandatory for every student to produce content for one page of the magazine. (You can include the advertisement activity within the activity of class magazine.)

Comic Strip

This is another extensive project that will not only win the hearts of your students but also allow you to assess their creative capabilities.

Ask them to illustrate interesting events from their lives, or imagination, in the form of comic strips.

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Dramas

This activity is similar to the comic activity given above. The only difference is the increased detail that is required in drama writing. An absence of images adds the obligation on the students to describe scenes and expressions.

Again, students can describe any life event from their reality or imagination.

You can later ask the students to act on the best dramas to improve their verbal and non-verbal communication.

Paper Mache Activity

In this messy yet super fun project, students make paper mache futuristic Earths or other imaginary planets as described in science fiction.

This was my cross-curricular activity based off of our Literature reading of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and a unit topic in English about the environment and recycling. Of course, you can do paper mache for any lesson or unit that you have!

This article gives you the step-by-step instruction on how to do paper mache in the classroom!

Editorial/ Fan Letter

Editorial is one of English project ideas most suitable for high-schoolers while fan letters work for learners from all English expertise levels.

Ask your high-schoolers to analyze a societal issue that is close to their heart. Next, they need to define the problem from the viewpoint of aggrieved parties. Ask them to write out the problem and get it published in a local or national newspaper.

(Be ready to proofread and edit the piece before they send it to relevant personnel.)

Younger students can write fan letters to their best actors, authors, and singers.

Inventions

This is another English project which will combine societal, and practical, understanding with English learning. In this project, the students will learn problem-solving skills.

Ask them to understand a societal or scientific problem. Once they have understood and defined this issue, they have to provide a solution to this problem.

In the end, they have to present their solution together with the need which gave rise to it in front of the class. (You may want them to include presentation slides for visual effects.)

Diorama

This activity is one of my students' favorite s not only because it's fun but also because it facilitates their learning. I tried this project on two literature readings I had before (The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe) and both achieved the same fantastic end.

In this project, students are tasked to illustrate the setting or a specific part of the book in the form of a three-dimensional miniature scene. Students will pick a favorite scene from the story they are reading and decide how they want to represent it using the materials given (above) and a variety of design strategies.

Parodies

This writing exercise contains the most fun among all the given projects. You will excite their creativity as well as their inner critic.

Start by inquiring about the literary work which fascinates or inspires them most.

Ask them if they can add humor to that piece. Let them edit a single character or scene or if they want they can give a humorous outlook to the whole plot.

Fables

This open-ended English writing project will ask the students to select one event in their life. This event should be intriguing as well as contain a life lesson.

Then, they have to retell this piece in third person pronoun. Ask them to keep the tone conversational as well as engaging.

In the end, ask them to write a conclusive moral of the story.

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Self-Portrait Project

These self-portrait ideas were part of a short project that went really with my middle school ESL class so I thought I'd share them with you.

My students were able to come up with three products in one activity: a mind map, a self-portrait and an essay. The unit topic was about "Identity" or "Personality" but I guess this will work for general descriptive adjectives lesson as well.

Charts

If you want to include futuristic touch to your English lessons, include a thing or two from STEM subjects. One great way is to ask them to explain or detail a mathematical chart. (You can come up with variations in this original plan. For example, you can ask future businessmen to interpret graphics related to market studies.)

See, if they have enough vocabulary and concepts to comprehend and convey the message to their fellows.

Fictional Pen-Pals

Just like fan letters, this activity asks the students to write letters to their favorite characters in fictional and non-fictional worlds.

Ask them to pinpoint the era, region, settings they like most in a given novel or historical account. Next, they would show interest in one of its characters and the reason for this interest.

In the end, they need to write a letter to this character praising or advising him/her regarding his/her role in the piece. (You can reply on behalf of that character if you think the point made by the student inspires further dialogue.)

Book Trailer Project

Book Trailer Project is a digital storytelling activity for middle school or high school students after they finish reading a book. Students need to take the key idea from the book to create a short video that persuades people to check out a book they have read.

Doing the book trailer project requires students to summarize, synthesize and analyze the book and put that analysis in their trailer. Furthermore, having students create book trailers is a great way to incorporate technology in the classroom and encourage reading. Thus, book trailer project is a great alternative to boring book report assignments, and can easily be done individually or in groups.

Take Away

So these are some of creative English project ideas you can use in your English class to prompt your students to express their creativity and language skills. These are fun, practical, and learning-inducing.

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Are you teaching grammar this year? Whether this is new for you as a teacher, or you're just looking for some fresh and fun grammar activities to make this building block of writing resonate more with your students, we're here to get you started.

First off, let's take a look at the science of teaching English grammar - don't worry, we'll get to the fun grammar activities soon. We promise this part is worth it! If you recall diagramming sentences in school, and the idea of doing that with your students makes you cringe, you're in good company.

Study after study has shown that the monotony of "boring" grammar lessons just doesn't work. But letting kids play and discover? Yup, that works! So let's take a look at some truly fun ways to teach - and learn - English grammar!

Fun Grammar Activities for First Through Third Grade

Noun Scavenger Hunt

After your students have learned about nouns, set a timer, then challenge them to a classroom scavenger hunt for people, places, and things that start with each letter of the alphabet!

You can refer students to letters posted in your room or make things easy with an ABC template printed out for them to print each word and practice their handwriting.

Play Parts of Speech Uno

A fun twist on Uno, this parts of speech game challenges your students to remember which words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on! There's also a version that has each labeled for classes that are still learning the difference.

Sorting Adjective, Verbs, and Nouns

We're always happy to find ways to incorporate interactive displays in the classroom, and we love the simplicity of this hands-on grammar activity. There are lots of ways that you could use this idea. Try one or two of these:

Sort the popsicle/craft sticks as a class.

Ask a small group to sort the craft sticks as a literacy rotation activity.

Encourage the students to add craft sticks to the cups when they come across an interesting verb, adjective, or noun during speaking, listening, and writing.

Extend knowledge by adding a cup and differentiating between common and proper nouns.

Play Capitalization Games

Learning to use capital letters is a crucial grammar skill for younger students. Splat, a capitalization game created by Lauren Piper, a teacher in Illinois and a Teach Starter collaborator, is a perfect writing small group or writing center activity to get kids thinking about those uppercase and lowercase letters and where they go!

To play, students draw a card and read the sentence to decide which word needs a capital letter. But be careful you don't get a Splat card!

You can also try playing Splat as a way to teach types of sentences - interrogative, declarative, exclamatory, and imperative.

Character Adjective Accordion

Expand your students' minds, and make this fun Character Adjective Accordion Template.

Build a Sentence Card Game

Are you looking for a grammar game? Try a card game that focuses on building simple sentences that include a subject, verb, and object.

This card game is played in a similar way to Rummy.

Players take turns picking up and putting down cards until they can build a sentence that is grammatically correct and makes sense.

The winner of the game is the first person to build three sentences or one 'trump' card sentence.

The good news is, is that this grammar activity includes an instruction card and an answer card.

Nothing But Nouns

Love Scattergories but not quite sure how to translate it to your classroom? Try this grammar activity! Assign students a specific letter of the alphabet, and tell them they have to come up with a common noun, proper noun, and collective noun that begins with that letter.

Nothing but Nouns is a great writing center activity where you can challenge your students to work independently or in pairs.

Check out these grammar activities for more fun for your first through third graders!

Grammar Activities for Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade

Get your fourth and fifth graders ready for writing essays and bigger projects with grammar activities that are hands-on and introduce clauses, conjunctions, and more.

Play "Search and Find" with a Page from Your Local Newspaper

Your local newspaper is an inexpensive tool for learning - and you might even be able to score copies for every child in your class if you give them a call.

Choose a page out of the paper, and challenge students to find as many of the following as they can:

Prepositional phrase

Adverbs that convey frequency

Conjunctions

Past tense of irregular verbs

At the end of the set time period, share the number of each on the page so students can see how close they came to the answer!

Paperclip Your Clauses and Conjunctions

When it comes to learning about how to write compound sentences, sometimes a simple idea can be the thing that makes the lightbulb go on in their little heads. We love this kinesthetic grammar activity for fourth graders as a hands-on way to learn about the function of conjunctions.

Color By Part of Speech

Did you know coloring is scientifically proven to help us feel more relaxed? And this cool chameleon coloring sheet also helps students practice identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and pronouns. Don't let his color-changing ways fool you!

Roll and Write

Think of it like Mad Libs, only the dice make the decisions for your fourth and fifth graders in this fun grammar game!

Here's how it works:

1. Roll the die. Match the number rolled with the corresponding row on the Roll and Write chart.
2. Write a simple sentence about the topic you land on.
3. Continue the process by rolling the die, then writing the correct type of sentence for each roll about the topics you land on.
4. Read the six sentences as a completed, crazy paragraph!

Find the Wacky Professor's Treasure

This group grammar activity works for fourth graders (and some younger students too), sending them to a mini escape room - on paper anyway - to complete grammar tasks while working together to solve a riddle! Scrambled words, homophones, and verb tense challenges all lie between them and the answer!

Try these other great grammar activities for fourth and fifth graders:

Grammar Activities for Middle School

Middle schoolers may be older than their elementary school pals, but that doesn't mean they can't still have hands-on grammar activities to help make things "click" in their brains. Activities with real-world applications work well for students in middle school as they can see their grammar lessons have an impact on their day-to-day life.

Write Their Own Restaurant Menu

If you're the sort of teacher who cringes at grammar errors on the restaurant menu (ahem, guilty), put that to good use in the classroom! Bring in take-out menus, and use them to talk about descriptive language and the use of adjectives with your class. You can also use the menus as an opportunity to talk about synonym usage. What could be said in place of delicious, for example?

As a writing assignment, your students can be challenged to write their own menu or re-write some of the items on one of the menus you've brought in for study to practice using adjectives and synonyms.

You can also use our pre-made Frida's Fiesta menu to get your students started!

Comical Chronicles

Make a Mad Lib-style game using these ad-lib worksheets for some seriously hilarious results that put your students' knowledge of their parts of speech to the test! These make a great activity for your writing centers or for fast finishers!

Flip It!

Give your students the opportunity to get competitive with our Adverb Grammar Card Game - Flip It! You'll find different versions with a different grammar focus, perfect for literacy rotations.

Similar to the dice game Yahtzee, students must try to fill in adverbs next to every clue on their score sheet.

The player who has filled in the most words on their score sheet at the end of the game is the winner.

Here are some more recommended teaching resources...

Go on, get inspired, spread some grammar love in your classroom! Punctuate it all with these 26 fun ways to teach punctuation!

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Draw a square in the center of your paper.

Draw a triangle on top of the square.

Draw a small rectangle inside the square, at the bottom.

Draw two small squares inside the square near the top.

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Reaching certain learning styles can be easier than others, especially when it comes to ESL listening games.

Intentionally planning English listening practice to cater to various learning styles is key for your ESL students' success. When you do your part in giving them activities that meet their learning personalities, they will do their part and flourish in class.

These 40 ESL listening games will let your students express themselves (and get valuable language experience) while hitting the seven major styles of learning.

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Kinesthetic Listening Activities

Kinesthetic students learn best when they move and groove-that is, when they get their bodies involved in the activity. Here are some listening activities you can do that will get students up and moving in class.

1. Listen and Draw

If you have kinesthetic students who struggle to express themselves in English, Listen and Draw isolates listening from speaking. Simply have your students take out a blank piece of paper and give them instructions on what to draw.

For example, you might say the following:

Draw a square in the center of your paper.

Draw a triangle on top of the square.

Draw a small rectangle inside the square, at the bottom.

Draw two small squares inside the square near the top.

If your students listen correctly, they will have drawn a house (or something like it), and you will be able to tell with one glance whether they understood your directions.

Of course, you can make Listen and Draw as complicated as you like, depending on the skill level of your students. This activity is particularly useful for reviewing vocabulary of colors, shapes and teaching English prepositions of location.

2. Simon Says

Simon Says is a great go-to listening game. It's practically perfect for teaching with Total Physical Response. When your students play Simon Says, they will have to follow simple commands and move their bodies in the way you direct them.

This game is also great for reviewing vocabulary or grammar structures if you make a point of including them in your verbal directions.

3. Running for the Mouth

Running for the Mouth gets your students racing around your classroom to complete a dictation assignment.

Have students work with partners or in groups, and make sure you have one available copy of a recording for each group. The recordings are positioned around the edges of the classroom.

On your go, one student from each group runs to their recording and listens to part of it. The student must remember what they heard, and then run back to their group and dictate it to them. Another group member writes it down and then runs to the recording to memorize the next bit, later running back and dictating it to the group.

Play continues this way, rotating roles, until each group has written down the entire transcript of the listening material. Time your groups and give a ten-second penalty for each error in the transcript, and see who came up with the best time.

If you aren't sure what to use for your listening material, try a dialogue from your listening textbook, a FluentU clip, a short YouTube video or a brief news segment available online.

If you opt to use FluentU, you'll have additional helpful tools at your disposal, as well as hundreds of curated English-language videos like movie trailers, news segments and inspirational talks.

When students review the flashcard decks, each set of exercises will be different, as the program adapts to each student's learning needs. Encourage them to download the iOS or Android app for additional speaking practice, as well.

4. Map It

In Map It, students listen to your directions and find their way along a map to a secret location.

Start by making copies of a map for each of your students. It can be a real place, like this campus, or a simple diagram you put together yourself. Just make sure the streets are labeled and that you have several buildings marked on the map.

Give your students directions from a starting point, but don't tell them where you are directing them. They should run their fingers along the map according to your directions. Once you are finished, ask students where they ended up.

5. Blindfolding

Blindfolding is a game in which one student has to accomplish a simple task while wearing a blindfold, helped along the way by another student who provides directions.

Before the lesson, prepare cards with tasks you'll want the students to tackle. Keep it simple-"Open the window" or "Put a pencil on X's desk" will be challenging enough!

Start by dividing your class into two groups and each group into pairs. In every pair, one student will be the "Leader," and the other the "Follower".

The "Follower" puts on a blindfold while the "Leader" reads out the task from the card and proceeds to provide instructions. The "Follower" will have to listen closely if they want to complete their objective!

Once the task has been accomplished, the next pair tackles their task, and so on. The first team to complete all tasks wins.

6. Crowdsource the Monster

Have a student come up to the board. You can divide the class into two groups, if desired, and have two students at the board.

Start out by asking the seated students questions like:

How many eyes does it have?

How big is the head?

How many teeth does it have?

As students call out answers, the one at the board must draw the monster being described, to the best of their ability. This can get pretty rowdy, so you may want people to take turns calling out features. At the end, you'll have a unique monster for everyone to laugh about.

Verbal/Aural Listening Activities

Verbal/aural students do best when they hear or speak what you want them to learn. You can try these next ESL listening games for students who learn best by listening.

7. Back-to-back Interviews

In Back-to-back Interviews, have two students sit back to back in order to remove the visual clues from their conversation. Give one student a famous person to role-play and have the other person ask ten interview questions, noting the answers that their partner gives.

Can the interviewer guess who the interviewee is? After the interview, have students switch roles and give the interviewee a different celebrity to role-play.

8. Not Quite Identical

Have students work with a partner to pinpoint differences in nearly identical sentences. To prepare this activity, write up a list of ten sentences: list A. Then rewrite those sentences making slight changes-two or three changes for each sentence, such as word choice or verb tense. This is list B.

Give list A to one student and list B to their partner, having the two work together to find the differences. During the activity, students are not permitted to look at one another's papers-so they must speak and listen.

9. Keeping Score

If your class has an interest in sports, then listening to sports commentary and figuring out what's going on in the game could make for highly entertaining listening practice. Sports commentary tends to be fast-paced and filled with specialist vocabulary, however, so this activity is best suited for advanced learners.

10. What Did She Say?

For this activity, you'll need a recording of a conversation between two people-say, Person A and Person B. Have your students listen to only one side of the conversation first (Person A's lines) and brainstorm what Person B may be saying.

Write their ideas on the board and then play the other side of the conversation (Person B) and ask the students to recall what Person A was saying and how it fits in with Person B's lines.

11. Letter Sounds Scavenger Hunt

This game is best for beginners who need work on their vocabulary. It involves running around, so pull this one out when your students are restless.

To play, call out a letter. Students must run to find an object that begins with that letter sound.

The first person to find it must hold the object up and call out the name. If they're correct, you'll call out another letter. If they're wrong, the round continues.

To mix this one up a bit, try calling out words. In this case, students must find an object beginning with the first, last or middle letter sound. They'll need to break the word down in order to figure it out and this works well with slightly more advanced students.

12. Pass the Message

Take one student out of the room and give them a phrase to repeat. That student then enters the room and whispers the message to the next person. This continues until everyone has heard the message. The last person should write what they heard on the board.

For even more fun, divide the groups into teams and see which team can get the closest to the original message. You can even give them two different messages.

13. Write It Down

Have students pair up and have one student read a passage from a book. This can be any book or text they have handy. The other student must write everything down. How long you want the piece to be will depend on the language level of the students.

At the end of the reading, have the students switch roles. They can also check each other's work. The group with the fastest dictation wins.

Visual Listening Activities

Visual learners learn through what they see. It's possible to have listening activities tailored for visual learners-try some of the following.

14. Movie Vocabulary

Have students listen for specific vocabulary in a favorite movie clip. Before class, choose a movie clip and pre-watch it, noting any interesting or unusual vocabulary. Type up the words in list form. Keep them in order for an easier listening activity and randomize them for a more challenging activity.

In class, give your students copies of the vocabulary list. Review the pronunciation with students and then play the movie clip for them. Have students mark off the words as they hear them. After watching the clip, see who heard the most words and discuss the meaning of any words your students don't already know.

15. TED Talk

TED Talks are a great resource for ESL teachers and students. They are short, interesting and versatile. Play a TED Talk for your intermediate or advanced students.

The first time through, ask students to listen for the main idea. The second time through, have them listen for specific comprehension questions. The third time through, have them listen for opinions versus facts.

16. Who, What, Where

In this activity, students will be brainstorming and inferring meaning from visual clues and context. Show a short video clip with two or three people talking, but mute the sound. Have the students come up with ideas on who these people are, what they're talking about and where the scene is taking place.

After listing the class' ideas on the board play the clip again, with sound this time. Together, compare the students' initial ideas about the meaning of the clip with the actual dialogue.

17. Swat the Word

You can use a flyswatter for this game, or just have students hit the word with their hand. Write down 20-30 words on the white board. Alternatively, you can use flashcards and hang them on the wall.

Divide the students into two teams and have them line up. Say a word nicely and clearly. The first two students run up to the board and swat the correct word.

The first one to hit it earns a point for his team. Each person only gets one swat, then they have to go to the back of the line. If they get the word wrong, the next person in line can move up to swat the correct one.

Interpersonal Listening Activities

Interpersonal students learn from interacting with other people, a perfect setup for many listening activities.

18. Not Quite the Truth

Let your students get to know each other by telling personal stories. Mix things up by instructing students to include two or three lies in each story. Students work with a partner and listen for what they think are the lies in the story.

Award points for each lie they identify, then have students switch roles. See who was better at finding the lies in their partner's story.

19. Reported Interviews

Put students in pairs to interview each other. Have students quote their interviewees. After the interviews are complete, ask your students to change their quoted speech notes into reported speech and write a paragraph about the person they interviewed.

20. Unusual You

If your students aren't at the level for reported speech, have them introduce their partner to the rest of the class after their interviews instead.

This works even with students who have been together for a significant amount of time. Just encourage your students to find the most unusual and interesting information they can about their partners during the interview.

21. Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract is a listening activity that's also excellent for revising or teaching English adjectives. You'll need to prepare flashcards with adjectives (at least one per student) that oppose each other, e.g., black/white, short/tall, cheap/expensive.

Hand out the cards and allow the students one minute to find the person who has the opposite adjective on their card-so, the student with the "short" card needs to find the person with the "tall" card, and so on. Once the minute is up, you can shuffle the cards and repeat the activity.

22. Eavesdropping

For this activity, you'll need to prepare flashcards with basic conversation questions, such as "Where are you from?" or "What's your favorite movie?". Have your students sit in a large circle and hand the first card to one of them-let's call this person Student A.

Student A then asks someone (Student B) the question from the card. Student B answers, and asks the question back. Once Student A has answered, you'll ask another person (Student C) to sum up Student A's and Student B's answers. It goes like this:

Student A: What's your favorite movie?

Student B: My favorite movie is Cars 2. What's yours?

Student A: My favorite movie is Madagascar.

Teacher: Student C, what are Student A's and Student B's favorite movies?

Student C: Student A's favorite movie is Madagascar, and Student B likes Cars 2.

23. Birth Order Lineup

This is a nice, quick game and while it starts out using birth order, you can really choose anything you like, from favorite colors and foods to family size or living area.

Basically, students have to speak to each other to find out when each person was born so they can line up in the correct order, oldest to youngest. Have them call out their birth dates once they're lined up to see if they got it right.

24. Liar, Liar

Who doesn't enjoy making up tall tales. In this fast-paced game, students are divided into pairs and they're responsible for introducing their partner. They should present the other person with their name, likes and dislikes, pets and family information.

However, this information can be completely made up, or it can be partially true. The other student must listen carefully and say, "Liar!" when they detect a lie. That student can then correct the other person.

For example, "This is Ted. Ted likes bananas."
"Liar! I do not like bananas, I like papaya."

Students switch roles once the introduction is complete.

25. Five Things I Did Today

A simple yet funny game, this one requires students to go around the room listing five things they have done today. The catch is that they can't repeat anything that someone has already said. Start this game with your weakest students, since it does get tough toward the end.

26. Fruit Salad

Assign each student one of three or four fruits that you write on the board. These can be anything from apples and oranges to pineapple, papaya or watermelon. Have everyone set up their chairs in a circle or a line and call out a fruit. If you say "grapes," then all the grapes stand up and change seats. Keep calling out fruit and having the students switch spots.

When you call "fruit salad," everyone must get up and change places. This is when you sit down in a chair. Everyone else will sit and one student is left standing. That student then has to call out the fruit names to mix everyone up. To make it a little more challenging, you can have the "loser" do something silly like dance, recite a poem, etc.

Solitary Listening Activities

Solitary learners prefer to work on their own. These learners will enjoy the following listening activities that make room for that independence.

27. Listening Walk

Have students go for a listening walk. As they walk, have them make notes about what they hear. Then come back together and work with a partner. Have students discuss what they heard. Did their partner hear the same things that they did?

28. Picture Book Sequence

Choose a picture book that you'll read to your class-something simple like "The Little Red Hen" is a good one to start with. Before class make a list of the major events in the story, then randomize them.

Then read the book aloud to your class. After listening to the story, have students put the events from the story in sequence by cutting apart your list and arranging the slips of paper on a desk or table.

29. Audiobook Reports

You don't have to read a book on the page to write a book report. Have students listen to an audiobook or an ESL audio story. Then, ask them to write a book report based on what they heard, or to give a summary of the book to the class in a presentation.

Musical Listening Activities

Musical learners love to listen to music, and it actually helps them learn and retain information. Try these activities to really connect with musical learners.

30. Music to My Lexicon

Choose a song to play for your class. Anything will work, so try and match your song to the personality of your class. Before class, make a list of interesting vocabulary words that appear in the song.

Give the list to your students and review the pronunciation of each word. Then play the song for them and let them cross off the words on the list as they hear them.

For more song-based activities, check out this post:

31. Cloze Lyrics

You can also use a song for a great cloze activity. Get the lyrics to the song you want to play and replace each fifth word with a blank. Or you can target specific words you want your students to listen for.

As they listen to the song, students will have to fill in the blanks in the lyrics.

32. Sing Your Woes

Musicians write songs for a reason, and most of them have a story to tell. While listening to a song, have your students try to pick out the problem that the singer is singing about-such as a breakup, unrequited love, and so on.

After listening to the song, ask students to discuss why the musician wrote the song and what emotions they were feeling. Then have students come up with some advice for the person's problem.

33. Song Scanning

Another way to get students to actively listen to a song is to have them listen for specific information. Prepare worksheets with questions for students to answer as they listen to the song, e.g., "What is the name of the city in the song?" or "How long was the singer away from home?".

Alongside questions, you could also write down statements about the song and have the students determine whether they're true or false.

34. Musicals Rule

Musical learners could be fans of opera and musicals. Take advantage of that by playing a clip from your favorite musical. After watching the clip, ask students to give the main idea of the scene.

Then watch again and ask them to take notes on the details of the characters' interactions.

Mathematical/Logical Listening Activities

Do you like to do the crossword puzzle in the Sunday paper? Your mathematical/logical learners probably do. They like to use logic to puzzle out solutions to problems. You can get them engaged in your listening lessons with these activities.

35. Minimal Pair Bingo

Come up with several minimal pairs you want your students to listen for-two words that differ in only one sound, such as pin/pine and big/fig. (You will need at least twenty-four pairs.)

Have students fill in the blank spaces of a bingo board using those words-with one word in each box. Then call out the words as you play the game, with students marking the words they hear. The first person with five spaces in a row shouts out "Bingo!" to win.

36. Tongue Twister Telephone

The classic game of telephone is good for logical listeners, especially when you start the telephone chain with an English tongue twister.

Students will have to puzzle out what their classmates are saying with only one chance to hear the tongue twister as it's passed down the line from student to student.

37. Lecture Me

Taking notes from a lecture is a good way to practice listening, and it's even better for mathematical/logical learners when you give them an outline to complete that lines up with the lecture.

Many libraries have lectures you can borrow, or you can find others on YouTube. (For more advanced students, for example, here are 5-minute lectures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.) Choose something you think might be of interest or use to your students.

38. Advertising Agency

For this activity, prepare a photo of a commercial product-car, foodstuff, cleaning agent, etc. Start by telling the class that they are to imagine themselves as advertising professionals, brainstorming ideas for marketing the product.

The students' task is to write down as many words as they can think of to describe the product. They will then read their lists out loud. The rest of the class must listen closely because if another student has the same word on their list, they need to raise their hand. Unique words are rewarded with tokens or points.

39. My Favorite Infomercial

Mathematical/logical students like to measure and evaluate. Let them do so by watching two commercials or infomercials for similar products, while listening for details about the products.

Then have your students compare and contrast the products and make a recommendation on which is better.

40. Name That Product

Play the audio from a TV commercial to the students and ask them to identify what product is being advertised, without seeing the video. Vintage commercials work best for this purpose, due to their exaggerated dialogues and over-the-top praise for the product.

To turn this into a longer activity, have the students identify other things about the product and the commercial, such as the key features or the target audience.

No matter what their party personalities are, your ESL students have learning personalities, too. You can make sure everyone has a blast by connecting with each learning style through these different ESL listening games.

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Looking for some fresh ESL listening games to engage your students? Here are 40 awesome ideas that cover seven learning styles and every level of ability. Get inspired and plan your next lesson with these entertaining English listening exercises and games!

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Ss have to make posters or leaflets to promote a new bussines they started

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You are organizing a surprise party for your friend. In groups, make all the necessary arrangements ( food, drinks, decorations, presents, etc) and then present your ideas to the class

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If I were a verb I would be .... because- use all 3 types of conditionals in a phrase( If I were the verb to be, I would be enough today because I was not enough in the past but if I had been enough , then I wouldn't be myself today. :) )

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matching pictures with phrases;
fill in the blanks with the right words related to the respective topic;
order the words according to the following categories;

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This is a low preparation fun activity that works well with large classes, especially with young learners and teens. All your students need is a blank piece of paper and all the teacher needs is a little bit of imagination.

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For parts of the body - draw a picture of a person on the board, write the different parts of the body next to the picture and ask the students to match

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Find a city, a sweet, a drink, a colour , a name etc., while scanning the given text.

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Choose the correct vb tense.
I.e.: choose between Present Simple and Present Continuous

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Simon says game.

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Find the grammatical mistakes and correct them

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30 Meaningful Vocabulary Activities for Every Grade

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Learning new words is like adding to your writing toolbox.

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SONGS AND STORYTELLING
- choose different songs
-divide the class into small groups (4 students)
- the paper is divided in four equal parts
- play the first song, then the second.....
- for each song , the students have to draw something on the paper,
-finally, the students make up stories using their drawings.

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They are fun to play, but also educational, in fact, many teachers make use of them.Puzzles are 100% free to play and work on desktop pc, mac, mobile and tabl

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Listen to songs of interest to students and fill in the gaps

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Interviewing your idol;
Describe a famous place you'd like to visit

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Design your avatar and describe it to the class.

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Draw a picture after listening the description

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A variation of this game is to have each student say a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word, e.g., word, donkey, yodel, loon.

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People learn to read better when they're having fun. They relax and lose some of the anxiety that often comes with learning to read a new language. Here are five english activities to make learning English a little more fun!

1. Play Trivia

You will likely want to write some questions out ahead of time. Make the questions really easy-it's not the content we're learning, but how to communicate questions and answers. You may vary the difficulty of the questions based on the age and skill level of your students. If you are teaching a diverse group of learners, you may even want to target specific students with specific questions, e.g., give the more advanced students the more difficult questions. You can make it more fun by handing out buzzers or bells-the first person to "ring in" gets to answer the question. Just make sure that everyone gets a turn.

2. Role Play

Set up specific scenarios in your classrooms, scenarios that your students will likely face. Have one student order a pizza from another student. Have a student ask for directions. Or have one student invite another student to a party. Some students will need your help to get through the scene. Other students will be able to get through a scene without assistance. For more advanced learners, there is immense value in being the secondary role player, e.g., the person receiving the pizza order or the party invitation.

3. Turn on the Subtitles!

Find a television program that is appropriate for your class' age and learning level. (Humor is a plus.) Watch the program with closed captioning. The students will hear the words, see the people speaking, and see the text all at the same time!

4. Play Word Association

Have the students sit in a circle. Start the game with a simple word and ask the person to your left to say the first (English) word that comes to mind. Then, the person to his or her left should say the first word that comes to his or her mind. Be sure to stop every so often to debrief and define any mysterious words. A variation of this game is to have each student say a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word, e.g., word, donkey, yodel, loon.

5. Play Word Lottery

Before class, print out dozens of simple nouns and verbs. Cut them into little slips of paper and put them into a hat or bag. Invite each student to draw two words from the hat (you can use more for more advanced students). Give them each a minute to come up with a sentence that uses those two words, and makes sense. Then invite each of them to share their sentence with the class. Collect the words and go again. It's okay to repeat words, as the repetition helps!

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5 Fun Classroom Reading Activities for Engaging English Language Learners

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Sts listen to different songs in different languages and for each song they have to imagine what the person listening to that song is like, his hobbies, types of clothes, job.

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Read and put the paragraphs in the correct order.

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Read and put the paragraphs in the correct order.

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Crosswords are an attractive way of learning new vocabulary

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fill-in-the blanks with the right form of the verb/adjective/adverb;
rephrasing exercises;
make it personal- apply the newly-taught grammar issue to your own personal life and make a statement about yourself;

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Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs. Cards with the infinitive and cards with the past tense of the verbs. Each students choses a card and then they have to find the pair: infinitive-past.

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Based on a map, give directions to someone to get from one place to another.

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Fill in the gaps with the correct verb form

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Fill in the gaps with the correct verb form

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Secret word: Students are given a random topic and a random word that is unrelated to the topic. The students must hide the word in a speech about the topic—they’re trying to make sure the other students can’t guess the secret word. The other students listen carefully to the speech and attempt to guess the secret word.

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Read a text message conversation between two friends to practise and improve your reading skills.

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Play "FAZAN" in English

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True/False exercise;
identifying the correct image showing the description being heard;

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Teacher shows a flashcard but uses a wrong name for it . Sts have to correct her/him ( This is green(but shows purple) Sts say : 'No, no, No! It's not green! It's purple!) Teacher acts surprised :))) Sts feel smart and laugh :)

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Listen to the audio and then choose the correct answer. 

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Listen to the audio and then choose the correct answer. 

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Present the project to important people in the comunity

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Present the project to important people in the comunity

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Read small passages from users manuals in order to identify mistakes

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Example:

My / The future is … (yellow)
It tastes like … (pasta)
It smells like … (a lemon)
It sounds like … (a mandolin)
It feels like … (a cat)
It looks like … (the sunrise)

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Firstly, you could begin by brainstorming topics related to the future through acrostic poems or pictures. Ask your students to imagine they're living in the year 2100. What's life like? What can they see around them? How far has space and technology advanced?
Example poem:
Next, you could use either of the poems below as a model for your students:

When I look into the future
There are robots
There are aliens
There are saucers in the sky
But there aren't any birds.

When I look into the future
There's a memory stick in my head
There's a tracking device under my feet
There's a monitor behind my eyes
But there isn't a computer.
Example structure: When I look into the future
There's/are ...
There's/are ...
There's/are ...
But there isn't/aren't a/any ...
On a more personal note, the future could be explored through the senses. You could use this example as a model to elicit ideas from your students. Play some relaxing background music and ask them to close their eyes and imagine the sensations as they think of different words.
Example: My / The future is ... (yellow)
It tastes like ... (pasta)
It smells like ... (a lemon)
It sounds like ... (a mandolin)
It feels like ... (a cat)
It looks like ... (the sunrise)
Ask your students to complete the sentences below to generate ideas for a poem about their own future dreams. Here are two possible structures for their poems:
In my future life
I might ...
I could ...
I may ...
But I'll definitely ...
Here's a poem on a lighter note as an example of what they could produce.

In my future life
I'd like to be a cat
I'd like to sleep for 12 hours
Then dance around my flat.
I'd like to play by moonlight
And sunbathe in the sun
I'd like to climb a palm tree
And catch my tail for fun
I'd like to dine on fresh fish
Then drink a sea of milk
I'd like to live - that's my last wish
Please ban all dogs from Earth!

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Listen and order the events.

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Listen to a conversation or an adveristment and fill in the missing words. I love this activity.

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New words on the board- understanding the context they are used in

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New words on the board- understanding the context they are used in

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Tell students to bring a meaningful object from home, or send a picture if bringing the object isn't practical. Students introduce the object in a short presentation of 1-2 minutes, depending on the level. The other students listen and can ask some follow-up questions.

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Talk about favourite music genre

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Create small dialogues on different topics in order to practise functional language.

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Clue #1Let the fun begin! Go to the place where dishes become clean and look inside.

Clue #2I am warm, comfortable, and soft and you spend a lot of time in me at night. Look under me.

Clue #3You are halfway there, only a few more clues until you find your treasure! Sometimes we need to clean up. Go to the place where you can get wet and soapy at the same time.

Clue #4When your family gets hungry,everyone goes here to enjoy a meal together. Go to your spot and look underneath.

Clue #5Only one more clue to find and you will receive your reward! Go to the place where clothes are made clean.There is something peeking out under it.

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identifying the main ideas of a text by choosing them from the options given in the textbook;
true/false statements;
matching key phrases/words with pictures/their similar explanations in English; (depending on SS' level of English)

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Small children usually enjoy role play very much.

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Sts go to different places in the school and fill in a worksheet with nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs describing them. Then, they come back, share their findings with the class and design a collaborative poster about their school.

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Give 2 reasons why St. Andrew's Day is more important to us than Halloween

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Raluca- Present your favourite sweet recipe, list the ingredients and decribe the process.

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Raluca- Present your favourite sweet recipe, list the ingredients and decribe the process.

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 Bianca-Variations on the game Taboo:  create a PowerPoint presentation with a noun on each slide. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with their back to the PowerPoint. The rest of the students take turns describing the words on the slides, and the student at the front has to guess them.

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 Bianca-Variations on the game Taboo:  create a PowerPoint presentation with a noun on each slide. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with their back to the PowerPoint. The rest of the students take turns describing the words on the slides, and the student at the front has to guess them.

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Intermediate English Speaking Class, taboo game

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Write a chain story using the new vocabulary that they learnt in that unit.

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A Story Chain is a simple method of passing a story around the class, giving each student plenty of practice in storytelling.

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Write a paragraph about how you usually spend Christmas

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 Bianca-Write an e-mail/blog post on different topics

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 Bianca-Write an e-mail/blog post on different topics