Top 10 ESL Activities for Big Classes

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10 activities that are guaranteed awesome. Your students will love learning English

with you!

#1: Is that Sentence Correct?

You can use this activity with 1 student or 100! It’s also very easy to adjust the activity from beginner to advanced.

http://www.eslactivity.org/english-grammar-activity-is-that-sentence-correct/

#2: Videos in the ESL Classroom

Videos can be

a great tool

to use with

large ESL classes.

They are interesting,

motivating and

engaging for most students.

http://www.eslactivity.org/use-video-in-the-esl-classroom/

#3: Presentations for ESL Students

Task-based learning is a great way to make learning more memorable.

http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/presentation-project-ideas/

#4: Concentration

http://www.eslactivity.org/concentration-an-esl-vocabulary-game/

This is an excellent activity for beginners or intermediate

students and children especially love to play it.

#5: Just a Minute

http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/esl-speaking-activity-just-a-minute/

This is a great

warm-up activity

for higher-level

teenagers or adults.

They idea is that students

have to speak about

a certain topic

for an entire minute

without stopping.

#6: Reading Activities http://www.eslactivity.org/an-esl-reading-lesson-plan-template/

This is an ESL Reading Lesson Plan Template for how to conduct one of these lessons the CELTA way

#7: ESL Surveys

Surveys are great

because they’re

entirely student-centered

and they also

cover all 4-skills

(reading, writing,

listening, speaking).

http://eslspeaking.org/6-esl-survey-ideas/

#8: Board Games

These are a

natural choice

for large classes

of ESL students

because you can

break up any number

of students

up into

groups of 3-5.

http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/esl-board-games/

#9: Running Dictation

Running dictation also makes a great warm-up activity for

that Monday morning 9am class

http://eslspeaking.org/esl-game-running-dictation/

#10: Odd One Out

Put students into pairs and they compete against each other to add an element of fun to it.

http://www.eslactivity.org/odd-one-out-esl-warm-up-game/

These are simple yet fun activities your students can actively participate in. They will surely have fun while they learn at

the same time.

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