Brain Teasers are ideal classroom activities and can be used in loads of different ways. They're easy to adapt and you can tweak them to be just right for your TEFL class. Basically a brain teaser is a puzzle where your students have to think to find the solution....
PoS Swap is an activity to practice different parts of speech. For TEFL teachers it's well worth using as it requires little or no preparation and can be used any time there's a slight uncertainty amongst the students over a particular PoS. Running the Activity Write...
English Teachers - the series, is a fictional webseries about the lives of English teachers in a language school in Japan. The first episode aired in September 2010. It is directed and produced by Anthony Gilmore who teaches English part-time at the Nagoya University...
Quick Spell is an ideal activity if you find your class has problems spelling a particular word. If you notice that the same spelling mistake crops up again and again it's time to play this game! The idea behind the activity is making the spelling of this word so...
Quite simply a visa is a document stating that a person is authorized to enter the country or territory for which it was issued. If you intend to go abroad to teach depending on where you go and your nationality you may or may not need a visa to enter the country and...
The chances are that you have a Facebook account and there is more than a fair chance that some of your students do too. But this raises a number of questions and if you get the answer wrong, it can sometimes have dire consequences. Do I become "friends" with my...
Spelling Mix is a simple TEFL activity for students to practice the spelling of words in a semantic field. It's suitable for any age and level as long as the words the students are looking for are of the right level. Preparation Select a group of words of a suitable...
Good News, Bad News is a simple game you can play with almost any level of class. It's useful to practice both listening and speaking. Students need to listen carefully to what was said before and prepare their own ideas as well. With your class, go through the...
Non Sequitur is a Latin phrase we use in English which means it does not follow. It is mainly used to describe a statement which has nothing to do with what was said before. For example, this is logical and sensible. Socrates was a man. All men are mortal. Therefore...
Wipeout is a simple end-of-class activity which is good for practicing pronunciation and speaking. It is a good activity for low level classes and can be used from beginners up. It's better with smaller classes but with a little variation can be used for large classes...
