Easy Class Ideas

Using Tongue Twisters in class is fun and entertaining for my students but it is also a great way to achieve better pronunciation in English. I project the tongue twisters onto a whiteboard in my classroom. Students practice first. I help with any words they find difficult to pronounce and then one by one, or volunteers, they read as fast as they can in front of the whole class. It always creates a lot of laughs. My advice is to use the Tongue Twisters over several classes. Last 5 or 10 minutes of class to finish up, using 5 or 6 tongue twisters a class. Download the PowerPoint I use in class here: Tongue Twisters PowerPoint Enjoy.

Taboo is my favourite activity for English class. Students have to be able to describe something accurately using the language that they know. To play taboo you describe an English word and another person has to guess what the word been described is. The word can be a food, an animal, a famous person or place, the name of a movie, a school subject, anything you want. Of course you don't say the word. I like to use a PowerPoint presentation, so the whole class can read the word and see the picture of what it is. It helps those students who don't know what the word is and it helps them to describe it easier.  I pick a student from the class, they sit in front of the class with their back facing the whiteboard and the rest of the class describes the word until the student guesses what it is. This way I can control who is asking questions, I can correct them or help them out if they have difficulties. When the student guesses the correct answer, another