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Basic Preposition Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a sheet for younger students to practice the basic prepositions. Have them put the right preposition in the gap and then color the sheet in.
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Game On – Using Icebreaker Games in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
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 gamifying learning in the ESL classroom is making the games that I use more... [Read more]
Games as a Game-Changer in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
There are many benefits to using games in the classroom, including the creation of an engaging learning experience for students, a positive learning environment, and the potential for students to practice real-life situations with instant feedback. Also, gamification of learning can use students' natural inclination for socialization, achievement, and award. Thus, games can be a great tool for teaching English as a foreign language.
Reasons to use games
Ready-to-use games
Games in grammar and vocabulary teaching
Pitfalls of using games
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7 Non-Trivial Online ESL Games - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
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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1. Connect The Dots
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3. Online Word Chain
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5. I Went to The Market and Bought
6. Don't Say Yes or No
7. Would You Rather?
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Easter Prepositions - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Where is the bunny? For this worksheet, students have to find the correct preposition: over, between, behind, on, in, under, in front of, or next to.
This is a great worksheet to do during Easter time to practice the prepositions of place. Where is the bunny?
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Top 3 ESL Games for Teaching Online - TEFL Blog
Sara Stojanovic
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
With the introduction of technology, teaching English as a foreign language has changed a lot. Computers opened many new doors for both the teacher and the students. Technology has allowed us to use many resources that were unavailable before.
Kahoot
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Tow Truths One Lie
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With the outbreak of the pandemic, most of the language teaching and learning switched to the online variant.
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ESL teaching games for kids - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
1. Introduction to ESL Teaching Games for Kids
2. Benefits of Using Games in ESL Classes
3. Types of ESL Teaching Games for Kids
4. Tips for Implementing ESL Games Effectively
Incorporating games into ESL (English as a Second Language) classes for kids can make learning fun and engaging. Games provide an interactive way for children to practice and enhance their language skills in a stress-free environment. Whether you are a new teacher looking for fresh ideas or an experienced educator wanting to spice up your lessons, using games can benefit both you and your students.
There are numerous advantages to utilizing games in ESL classes for kids. Firstly, games help create a positive and enjoyable learning atmosphere, which can increase student motivation and participation. Additionally,... [Read more]
100 Prepositions List in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Prepositions are one of the most important parts of English grammar. Here is a list of the 100 most important prepositions in English.
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Games in the Classroom: What are EFL games? - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Teaching Ideas
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.
Common misconceptions about games in the classroom
How to use games in the classroom
Good resources for games to use in the EFL classroom
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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.
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The Difference Between ON Time vs. IN Time - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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The two prepositions "on time" and "in time" are widely used but also often used incorrectly. Let's take a look at the difference between the two below.
When something happens "on time", it happens at the planned time.
= punctual
= on schedule
= at the arranged time
= at the planned time
= at the correct time
= neither early nor late
The meeting was scheduled for 10 a.m.
-> This means I wasn’t late. I arrived at the planned time.
-> This means she never arrives at the correct time. She is never punctual.
When you are in time, you are early enough to have spare time, usually to be able to do something else.
= before something happens
= before the scheduled time
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Furniture and Prepositions "A messy room" - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Students will have to complete the sentences with a preposition of place and match the words supplied with the picture.
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The Prepositions of Time: At, On & In - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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The prepositions of time, "at", "on" and "in", describe when something happens, happened or will happen. What exactly is the different between these three prepositions? Let's have a look below.
We use "at" for a specific time or hour of the day, for example:
"At" is also used for a holiday period or a festical, such as:
We use "on" for specific days, for example:
We also use "on" when talking about dates, for instance:
The preposition "in" is used with months, for example:
The preposition "in" is also used with years, for example:
The preposition "in" is also used with decades, such as here:
The preposition "in" is also used with centuries, such as:
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Prepositions of Place - Where are the mice? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a writing activity for beginners. Students practice the use of the prepositions of place, there is / there are and places and items in the house.
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Parts of the Day - Prepositions of Time - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This infographic looks at the prepositions of time AT, ON, IN with parts of the day (morning, afternoon, evening, night).
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Prepositions of Place in the Bedroom Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a practice worksheet for place prepositions with a great picture. The students must select the correct option from the brackets and then perform the true or false test. They must then write ten sentences about items in their own bedroom.
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Online ESL Game Design Workshop for Teachers - TEFL Blog
Federico Riva
Teaching Ideas
Hello everybody and welcome to the ITTT weekly live stream. It's Liza here and I'm super excited that this stream happens every week and we can talk about teaching and TEFL and stuff like that. So welcome and thank you for joining me.
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Today, we are going to talk about online ESL game design. Last week I started showing you the game I was designing, it was Monopoly. Today I'm going to show you the outcome of the game and also tell you a little bit more about online game design.
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How can Game-Based Learning be Helpful to EFL Students? - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Games are a useful tool for teachers of EFL students because they help with motivation, engagement, and graceful failure (Plass 260-261). I will present a successful example of a teacher using games in an adult grammar class from Indonesia. Second, since I plan to teach online EFL students, I will present free digital games online teachers can use in their virtual classrooms.
Advantages of the Theory
The First Research
Popular Games
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Time Expressions Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun board game to practice time expressions and prepositions of time. Your students talk in pairs about the topics on the sheet. Each student places their counter on one of the "start" squares and then move forward by one square at a time talking about the topic using the appropriate time expressions.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Overview Parts Of Speech Prepositions - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Moving further down our list of the parts of speech, we have our prepositions. Prepositions show a relationship between a noun or a pronoun and the rest of the sentence. We have three main categories: time, place, movement as well as a miscellaneous category that doesn't fit the other three. Here, we can have prepositions of time: before, during, in, at or on. If I said, "I work at eight o'clock," I'm sharing a relationship between the time "eight o'clock" to the rest of the sentence. We have our prepositions of place: in, at, on, under, in between. If I said, "The book is under the table," I'm showing a relationship between the table and the rest of the sentence. Then, we have our prepositions of movement. These show movement: towards, from, to or through. I could say, "He walked... [Read more]
Games in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Federico Riva
TEFL Information
In the teaching of productive skills and the teaching of receptive skills activities will usually involve some form of game and our consideration here will be the use of games in the classroom.
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A game is an activity that;
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We can start with a definition of what we actually mean by a game and basically this has three components.
1) Has rules2) Should have (for its use in the classroom) a teaching point 3) Should include an element of fun So that will be our working definition for a game that we are going to use in the classroom.
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Top 3 Tools For Creating Interactive EFL Activities - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The online mode of teaching has become a primary one in the COVID-19 era. For many teachers, remote work is not easy especially due to a different approach to creating materials.
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1. Google Slides
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If you still struggle with games and activities for your activate phase of the lesson, take a look at the following three tools that can help you to versatile your Zoom classes and make your students super happy!
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Are there opportunities for TEFL teachers to teach English through games and activities? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
In the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), incorporating games and activities is a popular and effective method to engage students and enhance their language learning experience. Games and activities can range from simple word puzzles to more complex role-playing scenarios, all designed to make the learning process more interactive and enjoyable for students. By integrating these fun elements into lessons, teachers can create a dynamic and stimulating environment that motivates students to actively participate and practice their language skills.
There are numerous benefits to using games and activities in TEFL teaching. Firstly, games make learning enjoyable and can help alleviate the stress and pressure often associated with language learning. They provide a break from... [Read more]
How Games in the Classroom Create Valuable Lessons - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
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 constantly competing whether we realize it or not. As we go about our day to day... [Read more]
Using Digital Games in Teaching - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What if you could send your students for a real-life treasure hunt without changing your location. What if you could have them have a conversation with "Queen Elizabeth". What if I told you all this would be possible one day, with us changing the games we play in class from analog to digital. in this essay I will show some advantages of integrating digital games as a solid part of any teacher's daily routine for teaching English to students of any age, background or disability and hopefully establish that updating our traditional methods with the surrounding technology can lead to a more successful and effective teaching experience both for the teacher and the student alike.
Using games and technology
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The Essence of Educational Games - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Educational games are methodical tools for achieving a learning goal. A successful learning game should combine motivating player's life and interesting learning content. Games should not just be practical gaps fillers in the learning process but also serve to impart certain knowledge and to consolidate skills through exercises.
Benefits of Games
Games Goals
How to Use Games Effectively
When can we use educational games to take benefit from them in English classes?
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Incorporating Play and Games - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Importance of Play in Teaching
Engaging Students Through Games
Benefits of Incorporating Play
Implementing Play in ESL Lessons
Creating a Playful Learning Environment
Using Technology for Interactive Play
Adapting Games for Language Learning
Encouraging Collaboration Through Play
Assessing Learning Through Play
Conclusion: Play as a Powerful Teaching Tool
Integrating play into teaching English as a foreign language can significantly enhance students' learning experiences. Play allows students to engage with the language in a fun and interactive way, making the learning process more enjoyable and effective. By incorporating play into lessons, teachers can create a dynamic and stimulating learning environment that motivates students to actively participate and practice their... [Read more]
Online Esl Game Design Workshop For Teachers Miro Canva Power Point - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Open description to navigate through the chapters! ✅ This live session will talk about game design for online ESL lessons based on a famous board game - Monopoly. As a bonus, everyone who'll stay till the end of the event will get a Monopoly template for Miro! #TEFL#BestTEFL #TeachEnglishOnline Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: https://bit.ly/3ltqt73 Teach English online from anywhere you want: https://bit.ly/3ltqEPL Mentioned in the video: Canva 30-days trial for amazing visual design: https://bit.ly/3rlsQf0 Miro Collaborative Whiteboard: https://bit.ly/3lOiwe6 Plugins for Miro... [Read more]
Games in the Classroom ▷ Infographic - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
There are many games that can be used in the TEFL classroom, from simple games that only require a pen and a whiteboard to more elaborate board games. There are some games that have been specifically designed to be used in English language classes, while other, everyday games that we usually play for fun can also be adapted to be used with your students. You can even create your own games!
There are many misconceptions about using games in the classroom. Some people believe that studying should be serious and that there is no place for this kind of “entertainment” in the classroom. Others believe that games are only for children and that adults are not interested in playing when they should be studying. Neither of these assertions is true, research and experience has shown... [Read more]
Interactive Group Projects and Games - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Benefits of Interactive Group Projects
Engaging ESL Students Through Games
Incorporating Technology in Group Activities
Creating a Positive Learning Environment
Enhancing Communication Skills Through Collaboration
Tailoring Activities to Different Learning Styles
Promoting Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
Fostering Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity
Assessing Student Progress in Group Settings
Resources for Implementing Interactive Group Projects
Interactive group projects offer numerous benefits for ESL students. They provide opportunities for collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. By working together, students can enhance their language skills while also developing important soft skills such as teamwork and problem-solving. ITTT is a leading provider of... [Read more]
Teaching Grammar Through Student-Centered Games - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
As a new teacher, grammar was initially very difficult for me to teach. It was difficult to demonstrate grammar patterns succinctly. Luckily, the school that I work for has provided help by having an established curriculum. The key to teaching grammar, however, has been teaching variable inputs in otherwise unchanging structures as part of student-centered games.
Strategies on how to teach positive patterns
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