TEFL Activities & Teaching Resources

Make your life easier and your classes more engaging! This range of FREE TEFL activities will ensure your lessons are the highlight of your students' day.

Coming up with fun and engaging activities for every class is difficult to say the least. If you see your students drifting off, spice up your lessons with some fun activities. This section features all our favourite, tried and tested TEFL activities. Take a look and make sure you share your winning TEFL activities too!

Activities for Elementary Learners

Make sure your beginners don't just sit there in silence watching you wave your arms around – get them taking their first steps in English with some of these fun and easy TEFL activities.


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DONKEY

All the students stand up. It works better if the chairs are around the outside of the room, but that's not necessary. Teach them the word donkey. Explain the rules - you say a word in their language and ...

By AlixM09 February 22

The Wrong Game

warmer - I usually start by asking if anyone has recently bought a lottery ticket and then asking if they won - the answer is always no! You can then ask them what they would have done if they had won. If ...

By AlixM09 April 15, 2012

FETCH

1. Place flashcards around the room 2. Pick a word e.g. Dog and say to the student "Fetch me the dog" 3. Student finds the relevant picture and brings it back to you. 4. Award a point for every card bro...

By SusanBroccoli April 12, 2012

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