Teaching English
Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools “Battleship”
We have received a lot of questions about teaching English in public schools. If we don’t speak Korean, how do we communicate with our students? [...]
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Hobbies Game
Students ask each other about their hobbies through this fun guessing game. Take a few minutes at the beginning the class to explain the rules, [...]
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Weather and Future Tense
Students talk about the weather, the future, and play an intense game for both. This was a lesson used for an open class, so if [...]
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Board Games
Students can practice either past tense, passive structure, or vacation talk through a gameboard and dice. Fully editable templates, if you’d like to change it [...]
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Future Jobs Puzzle
Students solve the puzzle by putting the words in the right order. Every word has a numerical value. Those numbers are plugged into a formula, [...]
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Midterm Review
Students prepare for the midterm exam by playing a fun game that gets the whole class moving. Basically, the lesson prepares students for the multiple [...]
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Emotions and Gestures
Students discuss how they feel and what they should do about it in a boring way (sorry: it was my first lesson ever).
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Time Stamps and Hobbies
Students play Pictionary and another nameless but fun game to discuss their hobbies.
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Boggle
Teach students how to play Boggle; comes with handout and powerpoint presentation. Basically, this is like the wordsearches that they’re used to, only this one [...]
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How to Talk About Your Vacations
Students talk about their vacation in an unfortunately boring way (sorry – my first lesson ever).
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Passive Structure
Students brush up on active and passive structure through a team-guessing game.
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Comparative Adjectives
Students learn comparative adjectives through country comparison trivia. Gets them thinking in groups and working together, and doesn’t bore them to death in the process
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How to Talk About Movies
Ever have your student ask you if you saw a movie, but you didn’t see it, and then you ask them how it was? Have [...]
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How to Small Talk
Students learn how to say more than “how are you I am fine nice to meet you.” You’ll go over different greetings and different departures [...]
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Create a Superhero
Students create their own superhero and villain, draw and color them, then use English to explain them. This lesson is great for a break from [...]
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Icebreakers and Introductions
Introduce yourself with this game, then have your students introduce themselves through this handout. Great for starting off your summer or winter camps or your [...]
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How to Talk About Music
Students love K-Pop. Teach them how to talk about their favorite K-Pop songs and videos in English. We’ll discuss different parts of the song, like [...]
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Middle School Christmas Jumble
The exams are now finished at my school, and with the exams so are the textbooks finished. Yet, oddly, we still have to teach classes, [...]
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Middle School Jeopardy Template
There are a couple of factors that brought about a game of Jeopardy instead of something more fun. My English Classroom is being remodeled right [...]
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Middle School Password Games
We’ve been mighty busy over the past week, so please forgive the lack of activity here. Most of that busy time was spent in tweaking [...]
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