ESL Reading Activities - Interactive Games

Every ESL textbook will have reading comprehension lessons. Take any reading lesson and here are 4 reading activities and how to make reading more interactive, fun, and interesting for your international students. Even a reading lesson can become an interactive game. Let's get them moving and out of their seats. As ESL teachers you can put them in your bag of tricks the next time you want to 'spice up' your reading lessons. 1. Students get into groups of three. Writer is given a list of reading comprehension questions at the desk. Writer asks the runner the first question. Students continue to do this until all questions are answered. As a class, go over answers or any questions about the reading. 2. Separate students in half. Other half of the students are given questions and they can work together to predict what the reading will be about and what they think the answers will be. Pair students who read with the students who have the questions. Reading Race Reading Scavenger Hunt Related: 365 esl

Interactive Games Sinead Laffan - Five, ten, fifteen minutes? Exactly how long does 'development' take? About the webinar Time; there's never enough. And finding some for your own development can seem impossible. However, short and simple activities can be incredibly revealing and extremely rewarding. This session looks at a number of practical tasks, hears from teachers who have tried them out, while focusing on the power and importance of having a listener to support you in your developmental path. The tasks discussed are simple and ones that any teacher could undertake, with little "time investment". The rationale for this talk is to give participants a "window" into the professional lives of other teachers and the challenges that we face, to share some simple development activities which they can undertake in their own practice, to demonstrate how they work, to explore what potential, tangible outcomes they have had for other teachers, as well as to encourage participants to share with each other their own experiences. About the speaker Watch a recording of this talk below

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