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 [...]

Irregular Past Tense Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sized, and includes a word search grid. Students must take the present-tense verbs at the bottom of the sheet and find their past tense counterparts within the grid. On the blank back of the worksheet, students should write a sentence with each of the past tense verbs.
irr-past-tense-word-search
-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 [...]

Volcano Reading Comp Worksheet

This worksheet is full-sized, and is a straight-forward reading comprehension exercise, with 10 questions at the end.
volcano-reading-comp
-Abeth S.

Cognates Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sized. Students must put the words into the correct sentences, but all the words are similar to, or the same as, their Bulgarian translations. (Like “doctor” or “marker.”) Good for more beginning classes.
cognates
-Abeth S.

“Find Someone Who…” Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sized, and is a good ice-breaker for early in the year. Students must (in English, of course) ask their classmates which of the squares on the sheet apply to them, and write their names. Then, as a class, you can review the “answers.”
find-someone-who
-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.

People to People

Materials: none
Description: This is a good game to review body parts. You need lots of room for the students to walk around and mingle, without desks in the way. To play the game, everyone stands up and walks around the area. The teacher then yells “People to People,” and everyone partners up with the person [...]

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 [...]

Learning Numbers Using Cards

Materials: one deck of cards for each group
Description: This works best in small groups, no more than 3. Aces count as 1 and all face cards start out as 10. You can change this when practicing bigger numbers. When learning numbers 1-10, students place deck of cards in the middle. One student flips the top [...]

Greatest Bad Ideas

Materials: about 30 index cards, or cut up pieces of paper about the same size.
Description: First take the cards or pieces of paper and write hypothetical “problems” on them (eg. “My winter coat is not warm enough”, “I can’t afford to pay my rent”, “My cat makes me sneeze”, or something more absurd like “My [...]

Matching Cards

Materials: premade cards on slips of paper or index card halves (see below for ideas)
Description: This is an easy way to work on almost any concept, and the cards can be easily stored for future classes and years. All you need to do is make sets of cards that illustrate the concept you’re trying to [...]