Posts Tagged ‘English language games for children’
How to Stage Direct Young Language Learners
Preparing an end of year show (in English 🇬🇧) with young children can be a frustrating and exhausting experience. It’s enormous fun for kids but less so for teachers, right?😱😵😆 One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when preparing a show is selecting and adapting a suitable script 🎭 for young language learners.The second major obstacle is directing…
Read MoreTeaching Kids ESL – Mystery Box Flashcard Game
Props and Flashcards are great for introducing and reviewing new vocabulary with young language learners particularly with children who can’t yet read or write. 📦❓❓The Mystery Box Flashcard Game🕵️♀️👀 is a fun motivator and keeps young minds focused…for longer!! It gets children up on their feet 👣and excited about joining in and practicing English.🇬🇧 Have fun! Miranda🤩…
Read MoreBring Magic to Teaching Children English
I have a gymnast friend who teaches very young athletes. She’s great – really passionate about her work, boundless amount of energy and kids adore her. Not surprisingly her courses are packed with mini jumping gymnasts. 💪🤸♀️🤸♂️ I asked her the other day how she built up such a following, especially competing against bigger or more…
Read MoreEgg and Spoon Race for Young Language Learners
Looking for a fun Activity to do with your young language learners?👀🐥🇬🇧 🥚🥄The Egg and Spoon Race is a classic but forever popular children’s movement game loved by everyone.🤩 A simple game that can be adapted to review vocabulary with young language learners and a fun Easter activity🐣🐤🤩 Game suitable for children from 4+ 1)…
Read MoreESL Drama Teacher Training Weekend Program
Marathon teacher training weekend😆😁🇬🇧. First pics of this glorious team.🤩
Read MoreMirror Me – ESL Drama Game
This classic drama game helps children work together and focus their energies. Great for teaching children ages 6+🤩🇬🇧. Mirror Me 👭🙌 1. Put children into pairs and have them standing or sitting (closely) facing each other 2. Child A is the leader and child B must mirror the leader by carefully following his/her exact movements. 3.…
Read MoreCharacter Walks – English Drama Game
👣Character Walks👣 This simple drama game (ages 6+) is great for practicing questions and reviewing vocabulary. It also encourages children to develop their imaginations and boost their self-confidence by play-acting in front of an audience. 1) Have everyone standing in a large circle 2) Children are secretly given a character for example: ballerina, cowboy, queen,…
Read MoreWhy do English lessons flop?
Have you ever prepared an activity for your children based on what you’ve read somewhere or seen someone do? But when you introduce it, it completely FLOPS?😢 Why is that? A lot comes down to how we communicate. I often see teachers with impressive qualifications, knowledge and experience but with something fundamental missing: Effective communication…
Read MoreEnglish drama game of the week
Theatre warm-up games are perfect in helping to break-the-ice with a new langauge class🇬🇧 and set a playful tone to sessions. They instantly create a pressure free setting where children feel open to join-in, get-to-know their classmates and try new-things. A fun drama starter game is: CREATE AN OBJECT/ANIMAL Age: Children 5-99 Level: beginner- advanced Print…
Read MoreTeaching children English is tough!
Contrary to what most people believe – teaching children a foreign language is 1000 times more complicated than teaching adults. I too once thought “Kids? An hour lesson? Yeah, I can do that, no problem! Some paper, a few crayons and I’ll have them doing worksheets and colouring-in pages, simple!”👍👌 How wrong I was. After…
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