Essential ESL Activities that are Fun, Relevant and Engaging
ESL Activities for Engaging Classes – Fun, relevant and engaging ESL activities are the nitrous of every successful lesson. Through hundreds of successful ESL classes, we know what does and does NOT work.
ESL exercises are a controlled way to practice a particular language aspect. Instead ESL activities engage in discussion and communication focused on a goal.
For example, you can cut our ESL discussion topics into bite-size papers and have them communicate in pairs. And this is just 1 of 17 ideas waiting for you to build these ESL activities into your classes and to perfection.
These ESL activities give students a chance to use what they have been studying and make it ‘theirs,’ so they can draw on it when needed in their lives. They provide a variety of guided and more independent practice.
Most of these activities can be adapted to many different lessons.
Several are especially useful as icebreakers or warm-ups. Others provide a break or a quick review when there’s a little time left near the end of class. Some emphasize listening or speaking; others reading, writing, or vocabulary.
Icebreakers help classmates get acquainted at the start of a new class.
Warm-ups are good at the start of a lesson, especially if not all students arrive on time. They can review the previous day’s lesson or help students switch their thinking to English.
It’s also very helpful to have a few quick activities in your toolkit for when students get bored or discouraged.
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