From the article: Quick Lessons - Short Grammar Activities
Sooner or later all English teachers need some fun grammar activities to help fill in the gaps in class, or to provide some extra fun for students. Most ESL / EFL teachers have some trusted grammar activities that help out in a pinch. Here are quick grammar activities that teachers from the around the world have chosen to share. Thanks for the help! Share your quick lessons
english grammar is absurd
- To a certain part of speech in English we add an 's' to make it plural. To which part of speech in English do we add an 's' to make it singular?
- —Guest arthur grosser
Vocabulary activity ( good for teens)
- Preparation: Cards with words which you want to revise. Students sit in a circle and pass any object (we use a toy dog Kristy). Teacher turn back towards students and turn on music (I prefer somethig active modern,and beloved by student at that period of time). Suddenly (without looking back I stopped the melody and give the victime - a person who is holding the toy at this moment a card from my pile. Without saying, I pick it up randomly. He/she has to describe the word not showing it. The first guessing person take this card. To stimulate putting more effort into describing (in other word giving the motivation) I also give one point for a good explanation ( I use a special bright colour cards for this needs).If nobody was able to guess, we discuss the meaning after the game, and of course nobody is given points. Then I start from the first stage.Who is the'richest'? As you see music here doesn't have education purposes but it creates a good mood and at least wake you students up.
- —Guest white
Ms. Tuyet
- I would like to share materials and lesson plans with teachers of English in order to help me to do the job better.
- —tuyetvu
vocabulary
- i noticed my students play a game named ( bus complete ). They divided a sheet of paper to 5 columns , wrote in above of every column the words ( boy,girl,country,animal,food ). every turn , one of them choose a letter to start these words.The first who finished say ( bus complete) . then they share the answers. I shared them the game and turn it to english words . during the game I could correct the words and the students can get new vocabulary.
- —Guest neven
Vocabulary
- A teacher can divide his class into two groups . Lets say A and B . Then on the board he can make two charts, one for each group. then T. Asks ss. to start giving any word . T.writes it on the board and for the 2nd group start with the last letter in the word the 1st group gives . And so the activity goes on . Actually this evoke an spirit of challenge between them and at the same time it is a kind of brain-storm strategy to exercise their vocabulary. I hope this may be helpful to fill the remaining gap in the period.
- —Guest Taj Alsir
Giving an advice
- Make students sit in a circle. Ask them to write on a piece of paper a problem that they have in their lifes in one sentence using can't e.g. I can't speak English. I can't leave home at night. etc. Then make them pass his/her sheet of paper to the partner to the left. He she will read the problem an write an advice to his / her friend, using SHOULD, e.g. You should take an extra English course. They will continue passing the sheet of paper to his/her left and each classmate will write a different advice for this problem. At the end the owner of the sheet will have a lot of advice to his/her problem and students will practice this two modal verbs.
- —Guest M
