Easy Class Ideas

This is a mingle activity for your English class, 15+ students. Each student has a piece of paper with some questions on it. Students have to move around the class, asking each other the questions until they have a different name for each question. In my class, 10 questions = 10 different student names. Its fast, fun, a little bit loud but it gets your students talking to each other. For older or higher level students I ask them to get some additional information. Question: Who read a book last night? Name: David. The extra information might be the name of the book, how long he read for, who is the main character, etc, etc... The word document here is three different examples that I have used in class: FindSomeoneWho

 A PowerPoint with 23 Would you Rather questions for your English class.  It's a great speaking activity for tennage and adult students. Perfect for expressing some opinions. Download for free: Would you Rather  or watch on YouTube .

 This is a reading and writing activity for younger ESL students. There are 12 movie summaries, your students read the summary for each movie and guess it's name.  Then your students pick their own movie, write a short summary, describe it to the class and see if their classmates can guess the name of their movie. Printable: Guess the Movie

 The pyramid game is based on a famous American  TV show. Students have to describe 5 words from a vocabulary category to their classmates. They can tell their classmates the category before they describe the words. It is a great game to practice using relative clauses. Or vice versa, students can use the 5 words listed so that their classmates can guess the category. Use a time limit for each turn, try to encourage your students not to use gestures, i.e. their hands, facial expressions, etc. Download the printable here: Pyramid Game

30 Have you ever questions to print out for older teenagers and adults. Great activity to get your students to speak about themselves and their life experiences. Read from the printable or cut them out, put them face down and go through the questions one by one.  It's a good activity for a one to one class but more fun with a small group. Download here: Have You Ever...?    or watch on YouTube .

This is a fun PowerPoint to see if your students use American or British English vocabulary words. Students simply say what they see in the picture. Of course their answer can depend on a lot of things. The TV series they watch, the books they read, which country they are from, their teacher, etc..... There are 55 slides in the PowerPoint. I usually divide it over 2/3 classes so they don′t get bored of it quickly.  Hope you find it useful. Download here: PowerPoint