Kreativ English

Argghhh!!.....No....!!.....Hurry up!!.... Quick! Quick! - Typical noises from the students during this game! What is it? Probably my favourite game! - 'The bomb game' - It's simple, effective at getting students to use your target language repeatedly, and above all else, great fun! I usually split my class into teams, with this game, but it can also be played as individuals (with 3 lives) - With a full class of around 25 students, you'll definitely need to split them into 2

Learning a language creates all sorts of fear and apprehension, as it’s very easy to make mistakes and lose confidence to try and speak – With this lack of spoken confidence comes lack of motivation and engagement to complete all the other aspects of learning a language. If you eliminate this fear with lessons that allow the children to progress naturally through games, activities and creativity, the motivation to speak, and hence improve quickly in all areas is huge! It’s wh

Learning a new language creates all sorts of fear and apprehension, as it’s very easy to make mistakes and lose confidence to try and speak – If you eliminate this fear with lessons that allow the children to progress naturally through games, activities and creativity, the motivation to speak, and hence improve quickly, is huge! For example, each vocabulary set in our primary school courses has a purpose for producing active sentences – Now, this is not re-inventing the wheel

OK... so no real wolves involved here, but this is a game I call 'The Wolf Game', although i'm sure it goes by many other names in the ESL world - This is my take on it, and it can be adapted in many ways - Create some space in the classroom and create two teams (just to start) - Have them stand on opposite sides of the classroom - Place the numbers 1-6 in front of each team, leading away from them to the centre - These are the 6 steps they need to take during the game - If t

Here's a game that is incredibly simple, but highly effective & fun! It goes by many names, but I call it 'Back to the Board' - You don't need a board to play it, but it started that way!Let's look at this handsome character! - He's one of the 'Super Stars' from our course program - In this picture, he's demonstrating an adjective - Heavy - The vocabulary set for this example is adjectives -Heavy, light, fast, slow, tall, short, strong, weak, old, young, etc.... You can open

It's not impossible to combine creating something, playing a game & learning English at the same time! Take this craft idea - Create some simple 'bowling pins' from old toilet roll, find something that resembles a ball, and away you go - Here, the focus is on fruit. You can decorate each pin as any fruit you like - Children can learn the fruits, colours, numbers (pins), as well as learning to say what fruit they 'like/don't like' - You even have options of 'How many...' or in

When it comes to having fun with English, this classic, energetic game is always a winner! It's easily adaptable for all ages, abilities, vocabulary sets & language structures so give it a try! Simply arrange however many chairs you need into a rough circle and ask all the students to sit on a chair (If you have a large group it is no problem to split into two smaller circles). For this example we'll use a group size of 16 - They are reviewing present continuous - he/she I ha

You probably remember some, but it doesn't automatically make you think of learning English, right? Well...there are endless opportunities with these to teach English both at home & in the classroom. Let's take a look! Uno Great card game for teaching colours, numbers and simple functional language such as 'pick up, take, pass me, do you have, your turn, my go, what colour/number is that'. Loads of options to introduce new language and learn it naturally. Go fish This is a ga

I bet your children love animals, right?! Don't they all! - Take a quick look at this simple idea - All it needs is some paint, a fork, a few different coloured cards, some goggly eyes and you're ready! You can approach this with children completely new to English and use it as a starting point for some body parts (eyes, ears etc..), as well as colours and simple numbers. It's fun, can be used for all sorts of animals which can also be taught at the same time. Basic verbs 'Pu