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Games as a Teaching Method for Adult ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Games as a Teaching Method for Adult ESL Students
When we start to learn new things as children, we tend to do that with the help of games. That is why in many classrooms of young learners, we find games to be a highly popular medium amongst educators. It is a way of absorbing and processing a piece of information in a fun and educational way. But when we grow up, we somehow forget the necessity of games in the classroom.
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Ice Breaker
Ways to Include Games into Your Lesson
What Games to Choose?
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Games as a Booster of English Skills - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Games as a Booster of English Skills
Foreign language teaching is a very exciting and responsible job. The new time requires teachers a new approach to this problem. One of the most important components in EFL classrooms are games. The game intensifies the mental activity of students; through the game, children learn social functions, norms of behavior; they develop comprehensively.
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Reasons to use games
It is considered that the game is used in the following cases:
There are four types of educational games:
Effects
Engagement level
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5 Flashcard Games for Younger Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Flashcard Games for Younger Students
I have been teaching English to young learners in China for almost a year and I tried to make my lessons with and without flashcards. And I can say for sure, that it's really hard to teach children (3-12 years old) if you don't have prepared flashcards for your classes, but only an interactive whiteboard and some stuff to play games.
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There are some following advantages of using flashcards to teach children:
The games I use in my classroom are as follows:
1. Flashcard raise
2. Basketball with flashcards
3. What's missing
4. Hit the FC
5. Find flashcards
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Games in the Classroom
What are ESL games?
ESL games are games that can be used in the classroom to practice certain language points and encourage active and creative communication between your students. There are many different games created specifically for use in the English language classroom that can be found online or in any number of resource books. But we are not limited only to those games designed for the class. The majority of games that we played as children or still play as adults can be adapted and used in lessons. Whether games are co-operative or competitive, they provide students with a goal and in the English classroom this goal can only be reached by using the English they have learnt.
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Five Fun and Adaptable Games for ESL Classes - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 May 2021 Shirin Sophy
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Five Fun and Adaptable Games for ESL Classes
Today's pedagogical approaches put considerable emphasis upon the importance of providing students with the opportunity to have a joyful educational experience through adding enough and well-located variety to the lessons. One practical way to do so is designing and adding aimful games to your plan in order to inject positive energy into your lessons, improve the mood of your class and make your lessons stick in students' long-term memory.
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Pizza game
Hot seat
Hot potato
Spelling games
Whisper chain
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Christmas Word Scramble Worksheet
Use this free printable Christmas Word Scramble Game for ESL students during your Christmas-themed classes.
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How Can Classroom Activities Increase Student Motivation? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Can Classroom Activities Increase Student Motivation?
To many students, the school can feel like more of a chore than a pleasurable experience. Whether it is struggling to pay attention to lectures or to complete homework assignments, all students will lose focus at some point or another. One way to make the learning process more pleasurable is by transforming the classroom into a game-like environment. This does not necessarily mean playing games in class, but it does mean applying similar concepts to the classroom.
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Games as Bricks in Building Skills
Ways to apply games
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A-Z Upper Case Alphabet Board Game
This a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with young ESL students to practice upper case letters of the alphabet.
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41 Fun Activities with Flashcards - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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41 Fun Activities with Flashcards
The purpose of flashcards is rather simple and mundane; we use flashcards to introduce and review vocabulary or concepts. My first language teacher said, "The only way to learn a foreign language is repetition, repetition, repetition." Can't argue with that. Unfortunately, it can be really… repetitious and boring. But, if you watch children playing, they'll show you how to make it fun.
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Images
Double-sided or single-sided cards?
Multiple Sets
3 Types of Flash Card Activities
Matching
Ordering and Sorting
Guessing
Other Ideas
I call these activities, as opposed to games, as they don't involve dice or rules of play.
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ESL Classroom Gamification: ✅ Pros and Cons - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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ESL Classroom Gamification: ✅ Pros and Cons
I am an English teacher for preschool children in a small village. My students are excited about the new English subject. However, after a period of studying, they become tired and distracted. "This is hard" or "why don't we play games?", My student said. I have found that traditional teaching methods make children feel bored and hard to absorb. So why don't we use games in the classroom? I tried applying some preschool games to the lesson. My students were thrilled and excited about the games.
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Classroom dynamics
Ideas for different lesson stages
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Playing Games in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Playing Games in an ESL Classroom
"Play is our brain's favorite way of learning" – Diane Ackerman.
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Game Rules
Adaptability to Age Differences
Other Groups Types
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Tue, 21 May 2019 Mark Crocker
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Games in an ESL Classroom: Are They Really That Important?
Did you say games in a classroom? Is that even possible? Many people around the world cannot imagine or accept that education can be fun too. However, it is very important to motivate, entertain and vary the class activities in order to avoid class boredom. Entertainment in class is also important because it helps to establish rapport in the class (it creates a relaxed, fun and motivated environment) and it works as an evaluation tool (gives us information about the student's' knowledge). One particularly telling definition of games was explained by Diane Ackerman, a famous American poet and essayist, who stated that "Play is our brain's favorite way of... [Read more]
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How Games in the Classroom Create Valuable Lessons
Most everyone has a favorite game that they play over and over again. Games go further than just a simple competitive interaction between two people or teams. In a way, games teach the average person how to navigate life with two outcomes; either the joy of winning or the disappointment of losing. Although it is not necessarily bad to lose it is an inevitable outcome for each person who participates. The idea is to learn from the failure to gain experience in which you can strategize a new way to achieve victory. The act of winning is simply the reward for playing the game as it is expected to be played. The main concept of games is competition and how we as human beings are... [Read more]
Games in The Classroom as a Fantastic Way to Start a Lesson - TEFL Blog
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Games in The Classroom as a Fantastic Way to Start a Lesson
Anyone who has ever been in a classroom knows how much students enjoy playing games. Playing games is exciting and a great time for the students to get to know each other better as well as feel more at ease with the teacher. Consequently, a good English Teacher should know how to use games I order to achieve goals like reviewing previously learned vocabulary, enhancing spelling skills, practicing grammar points, promoting a nice and positive attitude in the classroom and many more!
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Games For Young Learners
Vocabulary Games
Competition
Hangman and Pictionary
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7 Non-Trivial Online ESL Games - TEFL Blog
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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7 Non-Trivial Online ESL Games
There are many famous games used by TEFL teachers that students know like the back of their hand. If you want to change up your online lessons and bring even more fun in your teaching, check out these seven non-trivial online ESL games to help you in every stage of the TEFL class.
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3. Online Word Chain
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The Importance of Using Online ESL Games in TEYL
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Top 5 Activities With Flashcards - TEFL Blog
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 Federico Riva
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Top 5 Activities With Flashcards
Flashcard is an indispensable tool that every teacher needs during the studying process. Regardless of the age of the students, it can be used effective equal with young learners or adults. Usually, in the ESL classes, the teacher uses flashcards when they need to teach new or review the previous vocabulary. It's also one of the easiest ways to add some games into your lesson, cause mostly it doesn't need special preparations. Young learners especially like flashcard games because usually it's active games and allow them to have fun during the lesson.
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1. Flashcards hunt
2. Flashcard Story Prompts
3. Cups game
4. Memory matching
5. Active game
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Game On – Using Icebreaker Games in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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Game On – Using Icebreaker Games in the ESL Classroom
We must up our game as ESL teachers in the 21st century – both figuratively and literally. I use games to engage students and promote learning in my classroom for a wide range of learning objectives. Below is a short list of icebreaker games that I regularly use in my classroom, and I will discuss the learning target(s) that each game aims to facilitate and deliver as well as the context in which the game is used. Since I work with high school age and adult students, the games are geared for English Language Learners in these age groups. As learning communities become more globalized and data give more information on how people learn, one major challenge I find with... [Read more]
7 Great Games for Your ESL Conversation Class - TEFL Blog
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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7 Great Games for Your ESL Conversation Class
Teaching speaking skills is an important part of an ESL class. Sometimes, entire conversation classes are established that focus solely on speaking. Here are 7 great games for your ESL conversation class.
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1. Mystery Party Guest
2. Choose Your Victim
3. Ice-breaker Jenga
4. 20 Questions
5. Apples to Apples
6. Get to Know You Bingo
7. Create A Game
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