A selection of English ESL esl fun activities ppt slides

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This is a fun game for your students, it can be used for various levels, and can be used as a warmer, cooler, or fun revision activity. You can use the topics already on the document, or you can change it and create your own. It can even be used for Business English students, if you change the topic accordingly to something like conjugations.

ESL Jeopardy Game Activity 

Fun activity about English Language. It 's about some fun facts about the English Language and it gives an idea why English is the most popular language in the world. You can use the powerpoint as a presention tool or you might ask the questions to the students. and encourage them deduce which will help to stimulate in-class interaction. You might use it as a first day activity for ESL students. 

Fun Facts about English

Time filler activity for all levels of ESL students. You can use it as a warmer in the beginning or a filler at the last ten minutes when you run out materials. It's good fun. 

Riddles

This ppt is a complete ‘can can’t’ lesson plan to teach beginner ESL students how to talk about their abilities. The lesson begins with a fun animation video to warm up and introduce the topic of abilities. Next, students practice the keywords and expressions and play the four corners game. Then, in pairs, students will talk about their abilities while playing a printable board game. Finally, students will walk around the class and talk about what they can / can’t do while playing a fun speaking activity.

can and can't

Attached is a file with three simple activities for young learners. flashcards and the location of the audio file that can be found on YouTube. 
This is a fun way for learning new vocabulary and animal sounds.

Animal sounds & pictures Activity Idea

These activities to practice triphthong identification can be done in several ways: 
 
1. Run & Write 
2. Flyswatter Swat 
3. Sumo 
4. Hot Seat 
5. Slap the Phoneme 
 
Students can run & write/swat/sumo/describe/run & slap to the various phonemes which correspond to the body part. 
 
Answer Key: 
 
slower 
fire 
shower 
tyre 
lawyer 
flower 
player 
 
Links for reinforcement materials included! 
 
Can also be done as a sorting activity with mini-flashcards! 
 
For more creative, fun & engaging ESL activities & ideas, sign up to our workshops or email me: teacherdianaonline@<a href="http://gmail.com!" target="_blank" title="gmail.com!">gmail.com!</a> 
 
Have fun teaching :) 
Di

Wheel of Triphthongs

A fun ESL warm-up activity. Ask the students to write down a list of requested items described on the 2nd slide. When they are done reveal the poem with the blanks. Fill in the blanks with the objects they have written down previously.

My monster - Mad libs

This activity can be done in several ways: 
 
1. Run & Write 
2. Flyswatter Swat 
3. Sumo 
4. Hot Seat 
5. Slap the Phoneme 
 
Students can run & write/swat/sumo/describe/run & slap to the various phonemes which correspond to the body part. 
 
Answer Key: 
 
Monophthongs: 
/ɑː/: arm 
/iː/: feet, knee, teeth 
/ʊ/:foot	 
/æ/: hand 
/e/: legs, head 
 
Diphthongs: 
/ɪə/: ear 
/aɪ/: eye, eyes 
/eɪ/:face 
/əʊ/: toes 
/eə/: hair 
/aʊ/: mouth 
/əʊ/: nose 
 
Can also be done as a sorting activity with mini-flashcards! 
 
For more creative, fun & engaging ESL activities & ideas, sign up to our workshops or email me: teacherdianaonline@<a href="http://gmail.com!" target="_blank" title="gmail.com!">gmail.com!</a> 
 
Have fun teaching :)

Monoph- & Diphthong Hidden Body Parts

Teaching gerunds can be fun 
 
I love using this lesson plan with a group or individual classes because it is fun and easy to adapt in both settings. I recently used it with a pre-intermediate student who is only 8 years old and she loved it! This free lesson plan includes different reading, speaking and writing activities. Students will love the prompts given so they can express themselves creatively and genuinely. 
 
When to start teaching gerunds 
 
As I mentioned before, I used this lesson with a pre-intermediate student and I think this is a great place to start. Regardless of the age of the student, if his/her/their proficiency is pre-intermediate then learning and teaching gerunds will be fun for all of you. Keep in mind that students at this level should have a general idea of how to read, write, speak and understand English; this lesson will help improve these skills. 
 
What will students learn in this lesson? 
 
The purpose of this lesson is for students to practice verbs that are followed by gerunds or infinitives with no change in meaning. They will also learn how to determine when to use gerunds or infinitives. Moreover, they will work on answering questions using two sentences: one with the gerund and one with the infinitive. Students will also have the opportunity to create their questions, it’s really fun to see what they come up with. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to make logical sentences using several verbs including love, like, hate, prefer, can’t bear, can’t stand, begin, start and continue. 
 
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Teaching Gerunds: An Introducing ESL Lesson Plan

Nice game where a student needs to select the correct answer to catch the fish, also easily used as a template, by editing the picture and description it can be used for any topic. 
 
A remake of this game <a href="https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/material-type/fun-activities-and-games/parts-house/77271" target="_blank" title="https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/material-type/fun-activities-and-games/parts-house/77271">https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/material-type/fun-activities-and-games/parts-house/77271</a> with 16:9, aspect ratio, improved graphics and animations and other changes

parts of the house fishing game

This series contains 16 bio-poems of 16 real life students at a secondary school in Sabah. There is a set of questions that can be turned into an exciting classroom activity. The poems can also be examples for other ESL learners who would love to have fun with simple but meaningful poems. This is also available in ESL printables. These poems were compiled by Sirhajwan Idek :). 

Bio-Poems Slideshow (16 Poems HSK18)

Check out this lesson plan from <a href="http://eslpals.com" target="_blank" title="eslpals.com">eslpals.com</a> 
 
These amazing ESL Kids ocean lessons teach your students all about animals in the ocean. It covers the grammar topic of comparatives and superlatives. 
 
On <a href="http://eslpals.com" target="_blank" title="eslpals.com">eslpals.com</a>, there is a full unit which has three independent lessons that focus on ocean vocabulary, comparatives and superlatives. This is a level 1 unit, so the grammar is straightforward and understandable. 
 
Lesson 1 form <a href="http://eslpals.com" target="_blank" title="eslpals.com">eslpals.com</a> 
 
This ESL kids ocean lesson 1 starts with a fun warm-up activity where you can test what your students already know about ocean animals. Then, it moves on to teach new vocabulary with a true and false exercise. After that, students learn adjectives applicable for an ESL kids ocean lesson of this level. Later, your students will learn how to make comparatives with easy exercises and steps to completely guide kids! Next - the lesson provides multiple activities to practise the new grammar. The lesson wraps up with a reading and comprehension task and ultimately ends with two fun, educational games.

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