Wedding Role Play

Materials: paper and pen, one role for each student
Description: Type or write out a role in a wedding for each person in the classroom. Of course you will have the obvious characters- priest, bride, groom, etc. but make sure to write out a specific role for each person in the wedding party as well; some [...]

Not-What-It-Seems Auction

Materials: set of picture cards with objects,animals etc., these can be printed off a computer or drawn by hand
Description: For this you need a set of picture cards with objects,animals etc. Tell the class that you are going to auction these objects, and that each student has $100 to spend. Auction the items and keep [...]

Scrabble for the Classroom

Materials: Small pieces of paper, pens, white/chalk board and markers/chalk
Description: Cut up small pieces of paper into about one inch squares. Write one letter and its point value on each paper. In regular Scrabble there are 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, [...]

Limericks Worksheet

This worksheet is full-sized, and is meant to help students write their own limericks in English. Besides giving examples at the top, the bottom half of the worksheet gives lists of rhyming words for students to use in their own poems. Students do not actually write on this worksheet, and two to three students can [...]

Corrections Worksheet

This worksheet is triple-sized (three per sheet), and is meant to be copied into the students’ notebooks. There are a total of 28 grammatical mistakes in the 15 sentences, but not the same ammount in each sentence. Students should copy the sentences correctly into their notebooks.
corrections
-Abeth S.

State Report Worksheet

This worksheet is double-sided, and meant to be folded into a booklet. Students choose one of the 50 American states to research, and then use the Internet or school library to find the information within the booklet. There are twenty questions inside, and on the back of the booklet students must draw a map of [...]

Slang Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sized, as well as double-sided. On the front side, students put the slang words into the given sentences. On the back, they sort the slang words into the correct parts of speech (noun, adjective, etc.). Lots of fun for high school students!
slang
-Abeth S.

Food Proverbs Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sheet sized, and gives students the opportunity to try their hand at matching two halves of famous food proverbs. Sometimes, the incorrect answers are just as interesting as the right ones!
food-proverbs
-Abeth S.

Reverse Team Pictionary

Materials: whiteboard and markers, pictures
Description: Create or find pictures to use. This game is best if there are several things in each picture. As an example, I’ll use teaching prepositions of place. The pictures can be unrealistic and fun, as long as the students know all the words. In one picture, show a big elephant [...]

Free Write

Materials: an egg timer/stopwatch/clock, paper and pens
Description: This is based on the idea suggested by research which states that the number of words a student can write in 5 minutes is an indication of fluency and ability in a foreign language. The generally accepted number is 100 words in 5 minutes.
At the beginning of the [...]

Egg Drop

Materials: one egg for each student/team (they can give you stotinki for this), one ziploc bag for each egg (Very important! Get these sent from home if you want to do this!) packing materials like old newspapers, towels, plastic grocery bags, scotch tape, etc.
Description: First of all, don’t panic. Letting students drop eggs out a [...]

Bean Jars

Materials: two jars or containers for each class participating, one filled with small beans or dried corn
Description: So, my counterpart and I were tired of the kids saying simple things in Bulgarian that they certainly knew the English for (like, “Can I go to the bathroom?”, which I think is the first phrase everybody learns!) [...]

This is a What?

Materials: Two (or more, if you’re feeling bold) random, small objects, such as a marker or comb.
Description: Students stand in a circle. You, the leader, show the group one of the objects and tell them what it is. Let’s say it’s a marker. You then turn to the person on your left (“Person1″) and prompt [...]

Disappearing Vocabulary

Materials: White board and markers/blackboard and chalk
Description: I read this activity in a book, and didn’t believe it would work until I actually tried it! Write new vocabulary words on the board – no more than about ten at a time. Go down the list, pointing to each word as the students repeat it after [...]

Mafia: A game of deception

Materials: A Deck of Cards

Description: Take a deck of cards and remove enough cards for all the “players” in the game. If I have a smaller class or a SIP class, each student gets a card – If I’m playing in a class, then students play in teams of two.  There should be a small [...]