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In The Travellers ESL activity, groups invent a trip they have been on, describe it to the class, and answer questions about their experiences.
In The Worst Hitchhiker Ever ESL activity, students take turns pretending to be different kinds of hitchhiker.
The Tic-Tac-Toe ESL game is a version of the classic game in which players can only draw their symbol if they complete a mini language task successfully.
The Time Bomb Hot Potato ESL game is a variation on Hot Potato, using a countdown timer instead of music.
The Timeline ESL game is based on the card game of the same name, in which players try and put famous historical events in chronological order.
The Travel Blog ESL activity involves students describing the events of an imagined trip.
In the TV Show / Movie Pitch ESL project, students create an idea for a TV show / movie, then pitch it to the rest of the class.
The Twenty Questions ESL game is the classic parlour game in which students have to find out what their classmate is thinking of, using only yes/no questions.
The Twenty-One ESL game is a version of a popular party game in which counting gets harder and harder as numbers are replaced by other words/sounds/gestures.
The Two Truths And A Lie ESL activity is a bluffing game that’s perfect for getting to know your students, practising questions, or a number of different grammar topics.
In the Vocabulary Tennis ESL game (also known as word tennis or vocabulary volleyball), students trade vocabulary words from a pre-defined category.
The Wheel of Fortune ESL game is a version of the famous TV game show based on Hangman.
In the Word Association Pass ESL activity, students throw a ball to each other and make a chain of associated words.
In the Word Builder ESL activity, students build words from a large set of random letters.
In the Word Scramble ESL activity, students find a list of words from a set of scrambled letters.
In the Word Scramble ESL activity, students find a list of words from a set of scrambled letters.
