ESL Communicative Lesson Plan Resources

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Communicative Worksheets - Assorted

• Different types of Communicative Activities

• Find someone who likes eating curry
• Find someone who has to
• Find someone who likes washing dishes
• Find someone who often goes to the movies - Movie talk
• Find someone who - adverbs of frequency communicative exercise
• Daily routine ranking and reporting exercise
• Seasons Communicative writing worksheet
• Hobbies interview worksheet
• Guess Who - Adjectives to describe people
• Movies Writing and speaking riddles worksheet
• Personality adjectives and comparatives practice - writing and speaking

Role Plays

• Shopping for a present - Roleplay shopping

• Teaching Math to Children

Board Games MORE Board Games here>>>>

Easy Board Games (PDF Files)

• Daily routine board game- by Olinda Lima Silva
• What are they doing?- Board game to practice present continuous tenses- by Olinda Silva
• Tic-Tac Toe Valentine board game- by Olinda Lima Silva
• Simple present and present continuous tenses board game
• Jeopardy - Simple dialogue
• Jeopardy - Nationalities, Countries & Cities
• Adjectives/opposites
• Asking Question Q and A
• Food Quantifiers
• How often do you...?
• Who's in your family?-Family Q an A.
• What's his/her job?
• Snakes and ladders :

Medium Level Board Games

• Adverbs of frequency football board game
• Pre-intermediate language skills board game .
• Modals for polite expressions- Asking embedded questions
• Intermediate language challenge board game.
• Future tense practice board game( going to, will, intend to, plan to)
• Simple past tense practice board game
• Gerunds and pronouns(simplified version)
• Have you ever...?
• Tag Question board game.
• Ask me, Ask me- Question skills board game( Communicative game)

High Level Board Games

• Conditional Sentences Board Game- First & Second conditionals
• Concentration game/word chop exercise (Extreme sports)
• Proverbs board game: 1. Game board 2. Preparatory worksheet
• Gerunds and infinitives board game

Communicative Writing Worksheets

Students will have to write first then report back to the whole class.

• Picture Description Writing templates
• Story Sequence Template- Describe a story in Sequence

Communicative Classroom Games & Ideas

1. Hot-seat : A lifetime favorite for most language teachers, this game has long been the cornerstone of most ESL classroom speaking activities and games. It is quite easy to play yet it gets a lot of language out of students if well thought out. Good for all Levels

2. Freeze!or Stop! Ball Game: This game can practice any language point and it is very easy to set up. How to play. Read more... Good for Young Learners/Teenagers

3. Hop and Say + Rocks, Paper & Scissors : Perfect and exciting game with cards lined up on the floor. Learn how to play Good for all but especially young learners/Teenagers

4. Talking Volleyball: A high-energy game; talking volleyball will practice vocabulary and simple sentences in a communicative way. How to play. Read more... Good for hyperactive Young Learners

5. Mallet Mallet: A fun game for practicing vocabulary and sentences. How to play. Good for Young Learners/Teenagers

6. Chinese whispers: A fun game for listening and getting correct pronunciation of words. How to play. - Good for All Levels

7. Miming games: Excellent game for eliciting description of actions and adjectives.How to play - Good for all Levels

8.Fly swatting: A vocabulary practice game with speaking and pronunciation practice. How to play. Read more... Good for Young Learners

9. Musical chairs: How to play- Bring some nice kids music to class. Put chairs in circle and make it short by one chair. Students listen to music and when you stop it they sit down. The one person who remains standing answers a few questions. Game continues. Good for young learners

10) SWAP!!!!!!!!! : This seat swapping game gets kids very excited. Kids sit in a circle. Prepare some word or phrase cards and put the up side down in the middle of the circle. When teacher says SWAP, students have to stand up and run to another seat(change seats). The teacher tries to find a seat also. There will be one student standing. That student will have to pick up a card and use it to make a sentence. After that the game proceeds until you sense they have gained much speaking practice in the lesson focus of the day.
  This game is good for all revision activities in ESL kid’s classes.

Variations: Simply ask questions to the student standing if you don't have time to make cards. You can ask questions related to the topic. For example if I was teaching Weather and Seasons. I would ask the one standing questions like:

• When is winter in your country?

• What's the weather like in the winter?

• What do we wear in the winter?

Board Game Templates- Build your own games in no time

• 1. ESL Football Game Template-(Simplified Version- Good for short lessons) - 2. Sample past tense Game designed with this template
• ESL Football Game - ( Longer version- good for lessons that go over 40 mins.)
• ESL Tennis Game- Fluency game- Quick response practice.
• Adaptable game templates for games needing dice
• Dialogue game templates

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