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Games for teens and adults to learn English? Really? Yes really!

Liven up your classes and have all students participate, even the shy ones

ESL for adults & teens: Games and activities are a great way of getting English out of stuffy text books and livening up your classes. Not only do many adults the world over enjoy games, but language games accelerate learning in a number of ways. Let’s see how…

Appeal to your students’  diverse learning styles

Using varied activities or games will appeal to different learning styles: auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, and tactile. This variety benefits students who learn predominantly from one learning style and helps all students retain information better.

Games bond students and teachers alike

Even confident adults can become uncertain and self-conscious when learning a new language. Learning through fun activities relaxes students, helps students bond with each other and the teacher and creates a supportive classroom atmosphere.

Less prep time, more fun time

ESL for adults: With an abundance of great ideas for games and activities to practice any language point, you will never be at a loss if you finish early or suddenly have to take an unexpected class.

Competition can encourage positive participation

Games, competitions, races, and time limits can increase student focus and give an exciting buzz to an activity that could otherwise be relatively mundane. Students get involved and are more inclined to contribute in class, so even shy students come forward to join in.

My ESL games for adults and teens allow students to work together in a structured way, with the independence to practice constructively without the constant presence of the teacher. Thus, students speak a lot of English and get the most out of lesson time.

Games are serious fun

Often, adult learners must understand why they are using a game. For example, if students know a fun activity is a vehicle to practise, they won’t think they are wasting time playing games.

Shelley's ESL resources for teens and adults

Pump some energy into your lessons and get your students talking, even the shy ones! ESL for adults & teens games, fluency activities, and grammar drills are here. EFL and ESL resources that will make teaching fun and easy.

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Teach your students through games, fluency activities and grammar drills for EFL and ESL students and make learning fun.

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Get your teens and adults engaged online. This book has games, fun ideas and tips to make your lessons stimulating and memorable.

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Engage your teens with short, fun role-plays and dialogues from middle school to 18 years old. For high novice-low intermediate levels.

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ESL Classroom Activities for Teens & Adults

ESL games, fluency activities and grammar drills for EFL and ESL students

Activities for all levels – Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced

Well organised into listening, speaking, reading, and writing categories.

The detailed introduction gives advice on cultural backgrounds, learning styles and personalities.

Packed with ideas and exercises on fluency and grammar: Entertaining, fun and specially formulated for teens and adults.

The introduction covers common classroom teaching problems including culture, tensions, shy students, and different learning styles

Teaching Tips include goals, using drills, fluency activities, to what to do if the lesson flops

6 step Quick Start Guide – Listening, speaking, reading and writing drills for new vocab, grammar and revision. Plus, listening comprehension, speaking fluency, conversation, dialogues, and creative writing.

Bonus! Receive a 70-page bonus appendix with the activities book! Get templates free to save you time.

Promote fun while learning English – what more could you ask?!

Tons of good ideas, and you can get a link to a free download of many games. I recently started teaching ESL to adult immigrants and refugees, and of the several books I bought to help myself, this is by far the most useful.
CJHUSA
Within hours of receiving this book, I had almost half of the page corners turned down to try with my adult beginners, since they love games, fluency activities that are fun (sometimes competitive) and promote learning (sometimes surreptitiously). The target audience for each activity is clearly outlined, needed preparation noted, and directions for play are easy to follow. A value-added bonus is the downloadable appendix that includes some samples and blank forms for those who have purchased the book. Teacher pre-teaching suggestions and variations for different language levels are included. Great resource!
Mary S. SmithUSA
I have found Shelley's book most helpful for me as a teacher new to ESL, working with boys who have very little English. Not only are the games and activities reasonably easy to prepare and set up, but her index system is really clear - which skill each game targets and which level(s) it would suit. There are often ideas for further adapting the activities, so you are getting a whole load of ideas in one book! Using games and competitions is an obvious hook for keeping boys interested, and Shelley's fun ideas have really worked. I also found her introductory section excellent, covering topics such as setting aims, planning sessions, using different teaching styles and dealing with the management of the session and of the learners. I would thoroughly recommend this book.
Amazon CustomerUSA
Practical and extremely useful activities/games for teaching. There are tons of activities and ideas that even if I used one per week, it'd take more than 3 years to give them a run through. While I use them for teaching my ESL students, but they are good also for any group activities, or ice breakers. I was able to download the free templates/sheets from their website. Shelley's pretty nice about checking in with me on whether the product was helpful or not.
Jen W. LuohUSA

ESL Online Games

Interactive activities to engage students of all ages and bring the joy of learning into your virtual classroom

Enjoy teaching happy, motivated pupils online. Following the success teachers have had with her classroom games books, Shelley created this mega-collection of online games to entice fun and effective learning for all levels. Ages six to adult.

Five-minute warm-ups, ten-minute no-prep games, low prep, and extended activities

Visual icons help you quickly select an activity

Tips on how to use the games in the classroom, an explanation of the categories, the best group sizes, how to adapt the games to different ages and levels, the materials you’ll need, the pace of the games and how to get the most out of mixed abilities

Games themed for vocabulary to stimulate speaking and listening

Rapid game selection to suit any occasion in the detailed index grouped into a category, group size, level, age, materials needed and pace

Introduction packed with handy tips on dealing with competition, movement, mixed abilities, logistics, working pairs and groups, classroom management and technology in the classroom

Bonus! Ready-made templates in the free downloadable bonus. ESL for adults and teens made easy.

Bring the joy of learning into your virtual classroom!

What a great resource! This book is jam packed full of ideas for spicing up the online classroom. Most of the ideas could be used in a face to face classroom too. Easy coding of games makes it clear which games will be appropriate for your students and there is something for every class. A gem of a book!
NLP MumUK
The must for English teachers. Very complete with a large selection of games. Playful pedagogy. I recommend it.
Amazon customerFrance

What to expect from ESL Online Games

  • Easier, faster lesson planning – the more games you use, the easier it gets.
  • Fun language games for vocabulary and grammar, listening, speaking, conversation, spelling, reading, and writing.
  • Tips on teaching online, dos and don’ts, technical tips, online security, engaging students, and more.
  • Support from the author
  • Easier, faster lesson planning – the more games you use, the easier it gets
  • Fun language games for vocabulary and grammar, listening, speaking, conversation, spelling, reading, and writing
  • Tips on teaching online, dos and don’ts, technical tips, online security, engaging students, and more
  • Support from the author

Fun ESL Role-Plays and Skits for Teens

19 short role-plays and conversational dialogues for teens learning English covering topics dear to teens

Find out just how much fun ESL drama can bring to your lessons, helping your pupils learn and stay motivated. Role-play breaks up the monotony of bookwork and is a great way to practice or review skills. What better way to see if students really understand how to use those new vocabulary words, verb tenses and sentence structures?

19 tried and tested fun skits for teens

A fun, effective way to teach and revise vocabulary themes

A one-to-one version is included with every skit, as well as the group version

Warm-up your class to enjoy drama, even if you have no interest in acting, the kids will be doing the acting:

Discussion ideas for each topic included

All children can be involved, from the shyest to the most outspoken, and all contribute to the final outcome

Bonus!

Inside this book is access to a 70-page printable appendix of ready-made templates. Print and go! That said most of the games don’t need any printing or preparation, but for those that do, templates are provided with this bonus to save you time

A particular German student was quite offended at the idea of playing games during class time until she was shown that many of the questions (in the game) were taken directly from the test books she would have used on her own. She then became very enthusiastic and passed her Cambridge exams with flying colours.
Carolyn MillerPrior English Language curriculum developer for employees at NKK Corporation, Japan

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