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=Here are some links you can use for your classes= Feel free to add your own, make comments. You'll have to be a member of the wiki before you can do so, so join up. It's easy.

You need to check out the appropriateness of all the these links yourself before showing one to your students.

=__Video__= @http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php @http://www.english-4kids.com/videos.html Mr. Bean Classic Clips http://www.esl-galaxy.com/video.htm http://www.techlearning.com/article/8270 http://www.techlearning.com/article/8270 http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/ http://www.eslnotes.com/

=__Games__= ONLINE JEOPARDY -- ALREADY MADE AND READY TO GO. JUST TYPE IN 'ESL' IN THE SEARCH AREA AND PICK ONE THAT IS APPROPRIATE! Great for the SmartBoard! Best idea -- create your own online and share it with the world. Or at least the rest of us at GIFS. =__**Chatbots**__= Chatbot List Jabberwacky Live Chatbot Botsta All the Bots -- list of...

=__Resources__= @http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/English/English_as_a_Second_Language/ @http://www.rong-chang.com/kids.htm @http://www.esl-galaxy.com/speaking.html DAVE's ESL Cafe IDEAS -- Highly Recommended

=__Other Activities__=

Laundry Basket Relay Race
You will need: How to Play:
 * 2 laundry baskets for each team
 * 5-10 identical vocabulary objects for each team
 * 1) Divide the group into two or three equal teams.
 * 2) Each team lines up behind one laundry basket filled with vocabulary items.
 * 3) Place another empty laundry basket several feet behind each team’s line.
 * 4) Give the signal to begin.
 * 5) The first person in each line removes an object from the basket, shows it to the second person in line, and identifies the object in the target language.
 * 6) The second person takes the object, repeats the word, and passes it back.
 * 7) When the last player receives the object, he places it in the empty basket, runs to the front of the line, and chooses the next object out the front basket to name and pass back.
 * 8) Continue steps 5-7 until every object from the front basket has been transferred to the back basket.
 * 9) The first team to finish wins.

Picnic Waiter Race
You will need: How to Play:
 * Several picnic blankets
 * One picnic basket filled with 15 or more plastic foods (use an odd number)
 * 1) Divide the group into two teams.
 * 2) Each team chooses a waiter.
 * 3) The other members of each team sit on picnic blankets that are scattered around the lawn.
 * 4) Give the signal to begin.
 * 5) The waiter must go to each member of his team, take a food order, run to the picnic basket to retrieve and deliver it . . . before the other waiter tries to get the same food.
 * 6) If the food is already gone, the waiter must return to the same student and take a new order.
 * 7) The team with the most food delivered correctly wins.

Read more at Suite101: [|Outdoor Language Learning Games: Active Play in French, Spanish, German, ESL, and More] []

**More Ideas** Have students create a map of the area in English. Find out the names of the streets, if any and learn the difference between giving directions in Korean and in English. Have students give directions orally or written and have another student follow along on the map. Have students identify the nearest supermarkets, bakeries, pharmacies, convenience stores, tailors, dry cleaners.

Have students create a "How To" booklet on recycling for foreigners living in Prugio -- a document that could actually be used and given to the Prugio Apartment Association to give to all new foreign hire tenants. Combine this booklet with the map mentioned above and your students could create an entire "Welcome to Sacheon Prugio Apartments" foreigner guide.

Classroom games and activities are an important part of learning English as a second language. Not only are they fun, but they allow students to practice using vocabulary and grammar in a variety of situations.

Introductory Games and Icebreakers
These activities are perfect for the first day of class, to help the teacher and students get to know one another. They can also be used at any point during the term to get the students talking. Before class, the teacher writes at least as many statements about himself as there are students on small slips of paper. Some of these statements should be true and others should be false but believable. During class, the students read the statements aloud and try to guess which are true. This often leads to many questions and can be a perfect introduction to a new teacher or language assistant. Have the students work in pairs to interview one another and then present the information about their partner to the class. The length of time required and level of detail achieved in this activity will vary widely depending on student level, but basic information is always revealed. "Two Truths and a Lie" is a classic introductory game. Have the students prepare three believable statements about themselves, one of which is false. Students (and the teacher) present their statements and the rest of the class must ask questions and guess which statement is not true. The students and teacher stand in a large circle. The first person gives his name and an adjective that describes him. The second person must repeat the name and descriptor of the first student and add his own. The third person repeats the names and descriptors of the first two, before adding his own, and the game continues around the circle. It is sometimes easier to require that descriptive adjectives start with the same letter as the students' first names. A new teacher can introduce himself by writing words and numbers that are related to his life on the board, and having students guess to what the words and numbers are referring. Examples include zip code, house number, state abbreviation, parents or siblings' names, university name, area code, lucky numbers, and hometown.

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Conversation and Speaking Activities
These games can be used at any point in the school year to spark conversation or review and reinforce previously-learned topics. The teacher should prepare two sets of cards, the first with different story-telling ideas ("my favorite vacation," "what I would do with a million dollars," "what I did last weekend," etc.) and the second with random words (avalanche, purple, tomato, etc). A student draws one card from each pile and tells the class a story about the topic, sneaking the random word into the story as subtly as possible at some point. The rest of the class has to guess what the random word was. Have each student write random words on small slips of paper. Collect all of the words in a basket. Pass the basket around; one at a time, students draw words and attempt the explain the concept without using the word or any part of it. The rest of the class tries to guess the word on the slip. (This game is similar to Catchprase or Taboo, without equipment.) The teacher or a student writes the name of a famous person on a Post-It note. One student comes to the front of the room and, without looking at it, sticks the Post-It on his forehead. The student then asks the rest of the class, which can read the name, yes or no questions about the name on his forehead, trying to figure out who the person is. To play "Hot Seat," one student comes to the front of the room to sit on the "hot seat" and play the role of a literary character, famous person, or fictional creation. The rest of the class asks questions and the student on the "hot seat" must answer in character. Create a ghost story as a class. The teacher begins with "It was a dark and stormy night." Go around the room, with each student adding one sentence to the story. Other topics and beginning sentences can also be substituted.

Writing and Story-Telling Activities
Have students read their work aloud after these writing games. Either the teacher or the students create a list of approximately ten random English words. Students work in groups to write short stories including all of the words. After reading the stories aloud, vote on which was best. Each student writes one sentence at the top of a blank piece of paper. The students then pass their papers to the person to the left of them and add a sentence to the new paper in front of them. Continue until the papers have made it all the way around the room, back to the original students, each containing a story put together by the entire class.

Read more at Suite101: [|ESL Classroom Games and Activities: Make Learning and Teaching English Fun With These Activities] []