It is an activity that can be used as a warming-up activity. This is an English board game where students can have fun while learning different grammar structures. It is a very simple activity and

“ESL Board Game”

It is an activity that can be used as a warming-up activity. This is an English board game where students can have fun while learning different grammar structures. It is a very simple activity and everybody is active and take part in it, even the pupils that are not so active during the lesson.

The students throw a die and move their counter according the appropriate number of squares based on the number shown on the die. This ESL activity is offered to help pupils learn ‘ Have you heard of …? ’

Example Vocabulary:

Have you heard of Harry Potter?

Have you heard of the Pyramids?

Have you heard of sharks?

Have you heard of baseball?

Have you heard of the moon?

Another example of this board game helps the pupils teaching: “ I would like to…/ I’d like to… ”

“Broken Telephone”
This is a listening and pronunciation activity that always gets people laughing.

The leader first must think of a sentence or phrase and whisper it to the person beside her. That person will then whisper what she heard to the next person. Each person can only say, " Can you please repeat that? " one time. When the message reaches the end of the chain that person must speak out loud. Oftentimes the message will be completely different when it reaches the end. Try to find out where the chain broke! In a big group you can send the message two ways and find out which team comes closest to the real message.

A famous example is the army message that started as "Send reinforcements, we're going to advance" and ended as "Send three and four pence, we're going to a dance."

“ A Waiter Must Dress Well ”

Speaking English is perhaps the hardest part about learning English as a foreign language. Because of this, teachers should dedicate a portion of every lesson to ESL speaking exercises and not forget about visual stimuli. “A Waiter Must Dress Well” is a good example of such an activity.

In this exercise pupils work in pairs. First of all they should guess the job of the people in the pictures and write the job below it. The pupils can ask each other questions to find out the correct answer.

For example: A: What is that man in blue?

B: He is a doctor.

A: What must they often do?

B: They must clean their hands often.

A: What mustn’t they do?

B: They mustn’t smoke while working.

After that they should complete two sentences in the spaces provided, one for "mustn't" and one for "must".

For example:

Model:

Job: doctor
They must clean their hands often.

They mustn't smoke while working.

Continue:

Job: _________
They must _______________.
They mustn't _____________.

Job: _________
They must _______________.
They mustn't _____________.

Job: _________
They must _______________.
They mustn't _____________.

Job: _________
They must _______________.
They mustn't _____________.

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