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Emily Jia · Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Beijing

Where can i find some interesting activities to motivated students in the classroom? Do you know any good websites? I'm looking for your reply, thanks.

mesmark · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 276 Location: Nagano, Japan

try these:

Printable ESL Activities

Printable Worksheets

Games and Activities Forum

Phonics Worksheets

Online English Games

You can also just post in here what you plan to teach and ask for suggestions on games and activities for that subject matter.

Linda Lin · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 4

There are some good websites for you to look for ideal classroom activities, such as the following:
http://www.socialedge.org/resources/edge-wiki/GamesAndClassroomActivities
http://www.studioclassroom.com.tw/
You can get some ideas from the websites. I hope you can tell us more information about your students. In this way, we will provide you with more help.

HeatherC · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 22 Location: Lahore, Pakistan

There are many grammar and writing lesson plan ideas here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/243909/heather_carreiro.html

barryfun · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

I have been an English teacher in Korea for almost 4 years now. For the last 2 years I have been developing teaching materials for teaching elementary school students. All of these things I have been using in my own classroom. They are especially great if you have a computer and projector in your classroom.

Everything is free and can be found on this website.

www.barryfunenglish.com

On this site, you can practice vocabulary, play fun flash games for the classroom, and print customizable flashcards and worksheets.

It is designed to be very easy and fun to use.

surrealia · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Posts: 82 Location: Taiwan

Try this site for an enormous list of links to websites for games, activities and lesson plans:

http://www.geocities.com/allhou/lessgames.htm

EnglishRaven · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 30

You might find something you like on my site as well:

http://www.EnglishRaven.com

In perusing this thread, I ended up on Barry's site (barryfunenglish), and I have to say, those are some really fantastic resources! My hat's off to you. I've been thinking of developing some similar tools, but considering you've already made them (and made them so well!), I'll have to settle for putting a prominent link to you on my site.

Nicely done!

~ Jason

barryfun · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

Thanks EnglishRaven! I appreciate the link to my site.

I still have a lot of ideas of things I want to add, but just no time to do it right now. I hope to have a lot more stuff in the future.

HeatherC · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 22 Location: Lahore, Pakistan

Hey!

Like some of the others I've also started putting my lesson plans on the web. I train primary and secondary English teachers in Pakistan, and I started posting lessons at the request of my students. Many of them were only 'in my head' for a long time, but now I've got a lot of games, lesson plans and resources posted. I've also used Barry's Fun English in the past. That site is great, and many of the teachers on this forum have their own sites chock full of lesson plans and tips.

Free ESL & English Lesson Plans & Resources
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1451793/resources_for_teaching_and_learning.html?cat=4

Here's a sample of one of my lesson plans:

Learning Description Through an Interactive Group Game

Objective: Learn how to describe people's hairstyles and personalities

Resources: Each student's name written on cards or pieces of paper.

Time: 60-70 minutes

Presentation 1: Women's Hairstyles (15 minutes)

Say: "Today we are going to learn how to describe other people. We will learn how to talk about how they look, their physical description, and how they act. How they act could also be referred to as their personality."

Draw pictures of the following women's hairstyles on the board: hair down, hair up, ponytail, braid, bun, curly, wavy, straight, short, medium, long

The pictures don't have to be works of art, but good enough so that students can differentiate the different hair styles. Present each hairstyle and new vocabulary word. Pronounce the word, for example, "braid", and ask students to repeat. Ask them, "Is anyone wearing her hair in a braid in our class?" Continue showing all the different hairstyles and asking students if anyone in the class is wearing her hair in that style.

Discuss the following terms for hair color: red, blond(e), brunette, black, raven-haired, dirty blond, brown

Continue reading lesson plan and game description here:

Learning Description Through an Interactive Group Game
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/876213/lesson_plan_learning_description_through.html?cat=4

Heads Up English · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Here are some good sites. I've included mine (apologies in advance for the shameless plug), as well as a few others that I regularly visit.

www.headsupenglish.com (adults / current events)

www.flashcardhub.com (general / flashcards)

www.eslhq.com (general / active forum)

www.genkienglish.com (for kids)

www.educationcreations.com (young learners)

Chris Cotter

meaghandawn · Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

www.freeprintable.com you can find tons of ideas on there!

AmazingESLTeacher · Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

I think someone may have mentioned it already, but www.barryfunenglish.com is a good site!

dave-b · Joined: 19 Dec 2009 Posts: 14

My blog is full of ideas for activities.

Check it out at:

http://www.eslteachingideas.blogspot.com/

Good luck!

teacher5159 · Joined: 29 May 2010 Posts: 3 Location: Adelaide, Australia

My online worksheet generator is good for making Cloze Text activities, Wordsearches, Minimal Pair Word Trees, Word Jumbles and more.

Online Worksheet Generator

alawton · Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 45 Location: Austin, TX

Hello,

If you have advanced students who are looking to improve their overall English fluency in everyday situations you can try http://drewseslfluencylessons.com. For activities to practice basic English skills I always use manythings.org. There are endless worksheets and games for students to practice vocabulary and grammar. Both are free. Good luck!

Andrew Lawton