Teach Asia Online are very pleased to bring you this collection of TEFL activities. Unlike some other sites who include anything and everything, you can rest assured that everything on this site has been used in the classroom and that everything works.
If you have any ideas that you feel work particularly well, then please email them to admin@teachasiaonline.com and they could be added here for other readers to use.
Kinaesthetic task cards
Print them out and cut them out for fun interactive activities to use with your students.
Grammar Quizzes
We also are building up our collection of grammar quizzes which are available on their own page.
General English
- Acceptable or unacceptable - Speaking; Discussion activity to express agreement and disagreement, persuade, defend a point of view
- Agony Aunt - reading, speaking, listening. Discussion activity to give advice with letter writing practice
- Answerphone - Speaking, telephone vocabulary
- Beep - Listening and speaking; vocabulary practice
- Board Blockbusters - Vocabulary; listening and speaking
- Board Boggle - Vocabulary and spelling
- Book reviews - Encourage reading and practice reading and writing
- Cars - Listening and speaking and comparatives/superlatives
- Chinese Whispers - Listening and speaking
- Circles of life - present simple and past perfect; listening and speaking
- Class guest - practicing asking questions, listening and speaking
- Conversation Gambits - Speaking + a little bit of listening
- Dot to Dot Squares - a way to make questions in class competitive
- Expert - Speaking
- Find the Word? - vocabulary practice
- Find Out If - Speaking / Have you ever..../ I have never....
- Fizz Buzz - Pronunciation practice of numbers
- Graph reporting - Speaking, writing, vocabulary for dealing with graphs, tables, and charts
- Guess teacher's word - vocabulary
- Hangman - listening/speaking, pronunciation practice with emphasis on vocabulary
- Horoscopes - Reading, speaking and writing, to practice making predictions and talk about the future
- Hot Seat - Listening and speaking, practice asking and responding to questions
- In line - Listening and speaking, comparatives/superlatives
- Internet Scavenger Hunt? - reading practice
- Jeopardy - Listening and speaking, team game/vocabulary practice
- Killing time - Present simple practice, listening and speaking and possible writing practice
- Lost!? - practice prepositions
- LO. How R U 2day? - Vocabulary/sentence structure revision
- News Headlines - Speaking, newspaper vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing extension activities
- Question reversal? - Speaking and listening
- Mad libs - Vocabulary practice and listening and speaking/practice understanding of a text
- Marooned - Listening, speaking, pairwork and group discussions
- Most common - writing grammatically correct sentences from a list of the most common words
- Noughts and crosses (Tic Tac Toe) - Grammar practice with some speaking/pronunciation
- Party - speaking - questions and answers in a social context
- Pass the story - sentence writing
- Perfect town - group discussion, passives, and comparatives/superlatives
- Pictionary - Vocabulary practice
- Picture Bingo - Listening practice and vocabulary
- Project Podcast - Listening and writing
- Scattergories - Speaking, Listening, vocabulary practice
- Scattergories brainstorms - Speaking, listening, vocabulary practice
- Scavenger Hunt - vocabulary work, team work, writing sentences
- Spelling Dictation - pronunctiation practice, listening and speaking
- Soduku Speaking - listening and speaking to practice numbers 1 - 10 and locations top/middle/bottom/left/right
- Taboo - Vocabulary and paraphrasing practice
- Teacher's Pics - Present continuous
- Teacher says? - Listening practice
- Team writing - Writing practice for any level
- Spelling Bee? - Vocabulary and spelling practice
- Team Vocab Elicitation - Speaking and listening practice; vocabulary practice.
- Three minute speeches - Speaking and listening practice, good for IELTS
- Translate it - Grammar practice and group production of correct sentences
- True or False - Speaking (and listening); to practice speaking uninterupted, good for IELTS
- Twenty Questions - Speaking and listening, practice asking and responding to questions
- What happened? - Listening and speaking with present perfect
- Yes or No - Listening and speaking; answering questions without giving simple one word answers
Business English Activities
- Art of Attachments - reading, grammar correction, and writing
- Bad Reputation - reading, class discussion, email/letter writing
- Financial Problems - reading, class discussion, email/letter writing
- Business problems - speaking
- Job Adverts - speaking, reading, and writing
- Job Descriptions and Candidate Selection - reading, class discussion, email/letter writing
- Job Interviews - listening and speaking
- Job responsibilities - Groupwork, present simple to talk about work
- Marketing Mix - listening, speaking, planning and presenting
- Meeting Mayhem -
- Setting up an Itinerary - reading, class discussion, email/letter writing
Questions For English Conversation
We are compiling sets of Questions For English Conversation; take a look. If you can think of a new topic then please send us your 20 questions!
Using Media/movies
- Cartoon - Dialogue writing/creative writing exercise
- Cooking with teacher - listening and note taking practice/writing a process
- And here is the news - Speaking/presentation work based on a news item. Listening practice can be added as well
Warmers
Warmers or ice-breakers are different from activities. They can be used to practice grammar, but mostly they are used so that students can get to know each other a bit better and get to know the teacher too.
Writing