Engaging Activities for the TEFL & TESOL Classroom

Explore information gap activities, learn how to set up A and B roles, and practice speaking, listening, and questioning through maps, drawings, and timetable examples.

Explore ready-made information gap activities and video-based tasks. Then design your own information gap activities using device features or series data to practice present simple and future forms.

Explore dictogloss, a collaborative dictation activity where students listen, take notes, and reconstruct a text in groups, reinforcing listening, writing, grammar, and vocabulary while linking top-down and bottom-up skills.

Explore how debates in elt classrooms boost speaking and fluency, with for and against roles, input, brainstorming, and language for debates, followed by feedback and follow-up tasks.

Master debate rules, enforce one speaker at a time with alternating turns to ensure fair participation, and score ideas and language on relevant topics.

Engage students in chains, a controlled speaking activity that builds accuracy in the simple past through collaborative storytelling, with clear stages, target structure, instructions, and feedback.

Jigsaw reading turns reading into a communicative activity by having students read different but related texts and discuss ideas, with guided text selection, grouping, and follow-up tasks.

Examine a jigsaw reading lesson using two texts about Lego and Ikea, with a warm-up and gist task, group students into A and B to read, discuss, and share insights.

Explore jigsaw writing, a communicative activity using images to build stories. Write, share, and edit paragraphs in staged groupings to enhance language and collaboration.

Engage tefl students with role plays that boost speaking, listening, reading, and writing through structured stages: context setting, language input, role assignment, monitoring, feedback, and follow-up.

Explore a job interview roleplay with a clear framework in the TEFL & TESOL classroom, guiding pairs through dialogue, feedback, and follow-up emails.

Implement running dictation to activate speaking, listening, reading, and writing while students work in runners and writers teams, swap roles halfway through, monitor progress, and provide feedback to enhance collaboration.

Learn to run a communicative 'find someone who' activity where students mingle to complete a theme-based list, using direct questions or follow-ups, with clear setup, language clarification, monitoring, and feedback.

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