Tools. One Stop English. Anglais Facile. Free Printables for Teachers. Letterland | Child-friendly phonics. Teaching Ideas - Free lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources for use in the primary classroom. Fun, in practice. At the end of January, I wrote a post inspired by Volkswagen’s Fun Theory competition. (If you missed the original post, it’s here: The Fun Theory in Language Learning) As often happens, as soon as I had “fun” on the brain, I started seeing posts and information related to this topic all around me in cyberspace!
Since fun is always a good thing to have on the brain, I’d like to share a few of the blog posts, discussions, and resources that I’ve enjoyed on this topic. One of ELT Chat’s January 27th Twitter discussions was dedicated to the Role of Humour in the EFL Class. There are a lot of great resource links, and ideas in the Dave Dodgson‘s chat summary. Bruno Andrade explored the chat topic in greater depth with a post on his own blog. In addition to some excellent guidelines for including humor in class, he suggests some fun activities.
If you’ve ever visited Chiew Pang‘s A CLIL to Climb, you know that he takes his fun seriously! Have fun! Elllo. Language Arts Games - Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, Vocabulary. Sheppard Software's Language Arts page features a variety of games for different grade levels. Elementary students (and anyone who needs a refresher) can play the animated grammar and punctuation games, which review basic punctuation and grammar concepts. This section is continually being refined and expanded, so check back often! Middle school, high school, and adult learners can review their SAT and advanced vocabulary through the SAT Words and Vocabulary in Context games.
Memorizing a wide variety of important vocabulary words will really help you succeed in the verbal sections of the SATs and GREs. Build an exercise. Lesson plans.