This teacher created a closer bond with her students!

You know in my country, cause of the culture, teachers and learners often have a very long distance with each other. And I realised that English games using in my lecture make our relationship become closer and better, and of course, I am very pleased for that.

Phuong Thuy, Hanoi, Vietnam

Fun with large classes

I just wanted to tell you about my great success with the games! I am so glad I bought that book and the large class variants are especially useful. The games are so much fun!

Liz Clayton, Bangkok, Thailand

This teacher notes how adaptable the games are!

Your games are such great fun and adaptable for all ages. The kids enjoy them immensely. They are the perfect fit for my students and my style of teaching.

Dominique Guihenneuc Italy

This teacher has changed the way she feels about teaching now

I really am so glad I found your stuff…it has completely changed the way I feel about teaching now. Before it was something I had always stressed over….the planning, that is….although I am both Celta and PGCE qualified I still found myself very stressed until every lesson was planned…which could take for ever.

Since discovering your materials I sit down to enjoy the planning…and love the teaching. It uses the fun approach I believe in through the theatre work I have done, and you have given me the confidence to know it can be applied to language learning for this age group.

The kids love it and so do the parents!

Joanna Simm, France

This teacher enjoys her lessons more!

Although I only bought your book on Monday, and today is Wednesday, I want you to know how valuable I have found it to be. I have used a couple of the games in school already and the children loved them. Equally importantly, they were learning and reviewing their English at the same time. Can I admit that I also enjoyed my lessons more?

Gila Goldberg, Jerusalem, Israel.

The kids love it!

Firstly I should say how fantastic I think the ebook and resources are, I use them for every lesson and the kids love it, when I arrive for the class they are clamouring to know what games they will be playing this time…

Claire Wilding Teaching in Spain

Well done to this teacher for her Instant Results!

I bought your e-book with the flashcards and lesson plans as bonuses just a few days ago. I used several of your games in class on Friday and was delighted at how my students responded – they were interested, engaged and responsive for the whole hour. When I announced it was time to go home they all said how fast the class had gone, they even said they want to do 1.5 hours from now on!

Many thanks for these great ideas and excellent material – I’m looking forward to class as much as my students!

Katy Reay

This teacher enjoys being a “guru” for others now!

I finally succeeded in checking the material. They are amazing and interesting as well. They can really make a revolution in my lessons as I see the surprise on the teachers faces. I enjoy impressing them. Also the big confidence I have when I am using your games that even some other teachers adapt them in their classes. Thanks a lot again Shelley, I appreciate your ideas. They are WONDERFUL!

Rami, China, 2006

It’s a great resource for teachers who have just qualified too!

I am finding your book fascinating. I have just completed my TEFL training course and started applying for jobs here in France and I am so glad I stumbled across your ebook!

Jane Burnham-Airey, France

This teacher found the games helped with her class of 60!

I teach in China in a small city and my class sizes are 60 plus students. I teach 1st through 6th grade. Before, I gave out lollipops as rewards for being quiet and responding. But this Monday I used your game of clapping and having them tell you the number and it worked wonderful, better in one class then the other but I didn’t have to give out lollipops which was a big change and I wasn’t always telling them to sit and be quiet. I look forward to using the other information and games.

Susan Dickinson, teaching in China

Easy to understand and perform

I don’t know how to express my gratefulness. The large class games have been really useful for my teaching. We often have about 50 students per class. Sometime it makes me confused to keep whole class in control. I found your games simple to understand, easy to perform and very useful for target language.

Phuong Thuy, Vietnam

The games help students with learning difficulties!

My daughter Aurore has learning difficulties and since coming to your classes she has gained in confidence and has improved in all subjects at school.

Mrs J. Brown, Canterbury, Kent, UK

She found the answer to her boring textbooks!

Thank you for writing this book. I have been teaching English in South Korea for one month now. I had been at a total loss for how to teach the young students. The school has textbooks that we fly through and are not very interesting. The students seem bored and always want to play Uno instead of study English. Everyday has been exhausting as I try to figure out a way to both educate and entertain the students.

Today I worked harder than most of my previous days, but I had fun and I was excited about the games we were playing, because I knew they were fun and educational. The kids liked them and I went home feeling like there is a chance I can thrive teaching and not just survive.

Thank you so much, you have given me more than hope, you have provided an answer to my big question: How do I teach?

Jovita McCleod, South Korea

She earned the respect of her pupils!

Last time when I was playing one of your games I heard one my pupils say to another: This is the best teacher in our school. Before I used your games, my pupils didn’t like my courses, but now, when I get into the classroom they greet me with a nice smile, and when we have break , they come to see me and talk to me with what I taught them.

Naima Chraa, Morocco

He is now excited about English teaching!

Brilliant!!! It is amazing how many games you can use in just one lesson. I can’t believe I am actually excited about starting with the new unit. To be honest I am extremely happy with these ideas. I haven’t stopped recieving compliments on my teaching in the last week….

Fº Javier Marín Millán, Spain

The games are transformational for homeless children living on the street.

For my experiece, street children cannot sit down for 40 minutes and concentrate on the text books or on the blackboard or listening to the teacher, because their life on the street mostly is to roam here and there almost whole day. But after trying your games we found that the children like them very much as they keep them fun and enjoying the whole 40 minutes and demanding to continue beyond the time set. The children were enthusiastic and motivated to participate fully. After the session I asked them how they felt about the games. They said, “Really great.”

Teachers form other classes also shared with me what had happen in their classes. They appreciate your games and said that you deserve congratulations.

Amani Masuki, Mkombozi Center, Tanzania

Excellent customer service from Teaching English Games

Your customer service is excellent. I’m glad I made the purchase. It has been well worth it already, and I’ve only scratched the surface.

Nick Harrison, Tapei, Taiwan

Not much preparation time needed and easy for the children to understand

First of all let me thank you for your games. I have tried some of them and I must say they worked very well. My students were really enthusiastic. I find them quite usefull in they since that there’s no much time needed for preparation and the rules are easy for the students to understand and follow. Also, I have learnt a lot from your class management notes, you are a real expert on teaching.

Angel Huerga Garcia, Spain

Simple and effective and a bargain!

What wonderful material you’ve got in your e-book! I’ve got a rich stock of flash cards too but you’ve got some incredibly charming ones there. And the games are simple and so effective. I started with prepositions and just did the very first one and the kids went crazy. But they didn’t want me to keep a score because they didn’t want to run the risk of losing! Once again many thanks! Never had such a bargain before!

Hana Quin, a Czechoslovakian teaching in Greece

Their grades excel and even their attitude is improved!

I need to tell you that your games make my classes come alive. Children can’t wait to have another session of their English lesson. Some of them come by bike or walk for 1/2hour just because they can’t afford to pay transportation. These village children are speaking English and even their parents couldn’t believe that their children are capable of speaking an International language that they even can’t understand. Their grades at school excel and even their attitude is improved because I always ask them to stick to the game rules. Thank you

ESL Games help unpredicatable supply teaching

As a supply teacher I’ve been sent to kindergartens, high schools and primary schools and taken on all age levels. It’s a lot of fun but requires alot of improvising, as very often I find myself without any sort of a lesson plan to follow and no idea what level the students are at. Your games and flashcards have been an enormous help. They are wonderful! The students that I have worked with before already know that if they are quiet and co-operative during the lesson, a game will follow.

Supply teaching is very unpredictable and your games and ideas make it so much fun!

Bianca Thaens, Sweden

Book comes to the rescue and helps with teaching exam

Dear Shelley, Yes indeed I bought the book quite some time ago and it really did come to my rescue especially when I had to prepare really good lessons for the class inspections I had in order to pass an exam called “Second Degree”. The kids love the games, there’s never a dull moment in my classes, so you see why I would have really hated losing the book.

Mirela Ciutacu, Romania

The children are learning better and paying more attention

Dear Shelley, I would like to say thank you very much for all the superb materials you sent me! I put them into practice and what I can say is that they really work!!!!!!!!!! These games move everybody. The smart children are very fond of them. But in the same time the slower students and even those with learning difficulties are so enthusiastic. Each time I enter the class they ask “Are we going to play that game..?”

The school worksheets and books are good but when I come up with your games …they just learn the words and use English, they do it. Before, I noticed some of my students were really afraid to speak. Now they speak freely and this is an excellent result!!!!!!!!! There was a time when I was upset because some of my students were quiet but not really paying attention.Their thoughts were somewhere else. But now they just learn everything and don’t struggle.

Ileana Bors, Romania

She wanted to run out of the classes crying!

A month ago I started teaching Elementary and literally wanted to give up and run out of the classes crying after the first 2 weeks! Then I purchased your ESL games for Elementary and tried the lesson plan for the Alphabet- they loved it! Everyone participated during the whole class and it was a huge success, especially with my IMPOSSIBLE group of 10, 4th grade boys – they had so much fun! Thanks again for your excellent work.

Courtney Elizabeth Clay Costa Rica Educational Programs

It’s more fun for this teacher now, and the kids love it too

I’d like to thank you again for your “Teaching english games”. My elementary school students just love English class now. I often get at least one student who comes to see me at the end of class just to say “J’adore l’anglais”. It’s more fun for me now too. I’m so glad that I found your website!!

Christi Bishop Vergez, France

Lesson plans are easier now for Nina and the ESL games really work

Dear Shelley, Let me tell you, Your book is amazing ! Your games are such great fun and adaptable for all ages!!!!! I teach kids between 5-8. They are the perfect fit for my students and my style of teaching, thank you very much ! I make learning FUN ! Thanks to your book I prepare my lesson plans really easily! I used to invent some game-lesson ideas but after I found your book it is easier to write down the lesson plan. Children playing games does not realize they are studing something, they are just having fun and it really works!

Nina Gogsadze, Rome, Italy

“The games have made my life so much more fun and less stressful.”

I had been teaching English for adults for more than 12 years before I decided to suddenly change age groups…and go straight to kids aged 1-6. Huge change. The games that I ordered back in May have helped me enormously and have made my life as a pre-school EFL teacher so much more fun and of course less stressful.

Johanna Lukacs

“It’s a really big help to open your books.”

I’ve just tested out your ballon-game this week (throw up a ballon and shout a thematic word or phrase) – with great success, of course! And using a feather in front of your mouth for phonics exercises – loads of fun! It’s a really big help to open your books…Thanks and all the best!

Anne-May in Pézenas, France

Quality at a good price

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! I wish I had known about your teaching material years ago – it would have saved me hours and hours of searching and creating! I am so happy that there are people like you out there offering quality at a good price plus the sincere desire to make their customers happy. It’s people like you that make the world a brighter place – please hold on to your enthusiasm!

Greetings from snowy Bavaria, Suzi Ramljak

“Made my life so much easier”

Your book English Language Games for Children has made my life so much easier. I’m teaching very lively, rambunctious Czech children in and outside of Prague (gorgeous city!) ages 6 to 10, and your games have been a life saver. The kids are having so much fun!

Richard C. Prague, Czech Republic

More relaxed and confident

Your games and skits really help a great deal, especially with children and I am becoming more relaxed and confident each day. And it’s great to see students learning while enjoying themselves. I’m really grateful I came across your website! It happened the moment I finally decided that teaching is the thing i want to do.

Thanks a lot and best wishes from Slovenia! Lidija Zager