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Habits and routines: a flip book. By having students draw a hint next to each day of the week, this weekly routine flip book can effectively become the basis for a speaking activity in which students make guesses about their classmates’ routines and then check them by reading the sentences inside.

Habits and routines: a flip book.

A good way to practise the present simple in the affirmative, negative and interrogative, adverbs of frequency and everyday life actions. 1. The students make their own flip book first: 2. True or false 2. Ice breaking activity: My life star – Tim's Free English Lesson Plans. Thanks to my Spanish teacher Montse for this activity.

Ice breaking activity: My life star – Tim's Free English Lesson Plans

This is a good activity for the first class of a course to break the ice. The students learn a bit about their teacher and then about each other. It is suitable for levels A2 – C2. You will need this handout: What did you do last summer? Happy graph. ESL First Day Introduction Games. You can use this card game on the first day of class to help students introduce themselves.

ESL First Day Introduction Games

The game works best with small class sizes. Give each student three blank cards. On the first card, students write their name, surname and age. On the second card, the students write four adjectives to describe their physical appearance and personality. Beginning of the Year Conversation Game. First Day (or First Week) Activities, Icebreakers, or Introductory Activities for ESL Classes. If you are interested in online sites for yourself or your students, you can check out this page: Introducing Your ESL or EFL Students to Online Tutorials and Quizzes .

First Day (or First Week) Activities, Icebreakers, or Introductory Activities for ESL Classes

–kas First Day (Week) Activities or Introductory Activities for ESL Classes. Icebreakers. Here are a few icebreakers and some variations to the icebreakers to try during the first week of school to build a good sense of community in your classroom that will last throughout the year!

Icebreakers

1Name Chain GamesBy far and away the best way to learn and retain student names is to do a name chain game to start off the class. You can vary the specifics to fit the needs of your particular class, but my class usually goes like this: the first student says 1) his or her name, 2) his or her home country, 3) one interesting fact about himself or herself, and 4) his or her favorite English word.

35 ways to introduce your lesson topic. Are you fed up with using the same old methods to introduce your lesson topic?

35 ways to introduce your lesson topic

Look no further! Here are 35 ways to kick off your lesson. How many have you tried? Using an anecdote.