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Make some cards with the letters of the alphabet on. You can discard the less common ones such as x and z. (or you can use an online random wheel generator) Shuffle the card and get learners to s...

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My main is to write this post is to find ways to make the online classroom more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers, game-...

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  Paper planes: First, have your students make some paper planes. Stand the students in two lines as two teams. For the competition, assign different classroom objects points (e.g. table 5 point...

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  There is a game that I’ve recently downloaded on my phone and that has become an addiction for me. As a Scrabble fan, I’ve been playing Words of Wonders for the last couple of weeks. Inspi...

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Baamboozle is a tool that allows you to create games for your classes. The tool is very easy to use. It is free so just sign up and start creating your game for your class. You can also use the g...

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You feel tired and have no energy to plan a lesson for tomorrow, Your students have been too fast to finish the tasks you planned for this lesson, You see they sulk, they feel bored or tired and ...

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May is round the corner. This means another school is about to end. Here you can find some revision games and activities that you’d like to use. When I’m 65 (to revise tenses, time clauses) T...

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  I am not a fan of online games. I don’t play any but my son spends most of his free time playing online games. I have lots of students who do the same and when the subject is online games, e...

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We love playing games in the class and quiz-show type games are very popular in our classrooms. We have the PowerPoint format of most games but if we want to change certain things on them to adap...

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1. Writing chain stories or even writing chain poems. If you decide to do the chain poem writing activity, then give them a skeleton If I drink coffee, I’ll stay awake tonight If I stay awake t...

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