Gestures and body languages in adult EFL classes, mostly to teach other language. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Although Total Physical Response started as a methodology for teaching adults, the term TPR is nowadays mainly used as a way of talking about movement in young learner classes. The aim of my latest article and the worksheets below is to bring that movement back into the adult classes where it also belongs:
Articles on TPR in adult classes
15 physical games that also work well with adults
Using body language and gestures to teach pronunciation – LINK UPDATED
Using body language and gestures to teach grammar – LINK UPDATED
52 TPR grammar games – LINK UPDATED
15 TEFL games with miming/ TPR
Photocopiable TPR worksheets for adults (including for IELTS, ESP, many tenses, phrasal verbs, idioms, telephoning, social English phrases, and cultural training)
TPR grammar worksheets
TPR grammar worksheets for teaching tenses
TPR worksheets for present tenses
Present Continuous TPR worksheets
New Present Continuous miming worksheets page (also including making sounds)
Business English Present Continuous mimes
Business English Present Continuous sounds and mimes
Hobbies Present Continuous mimes
Medical English Present Continuous mimes
Present Continuous travel mimes
Present Continuous vocabulary revision mimes (for New Cutting Edge Intermediate, but you could easily adapt the idea for your own classes)
Present Simple and Continuous TPR worksheets
Present Continuous and Present Simple job mimes
Table manners Present Simple and Continuous mimes
Xmas Present Simple Present Continuous mimes
Gestures cultural differences game (miming and then talking about use and not of those gestures)
Food and drink cultural differences mimes
Food and drink actions Present Continuous mimes
TPR worksheets for past tenses
Past Continuous TPR worksheets
Travel English Past Continuous mimes
Cutting Edge Intermediate Modules 1 and 2 Past Continuous mimes
Mixed past tenses TPR worksheets
Xmas and New Year past tenses mimes
TPR worksheets for future forms
Going to TPR worksheets
Xmas going to games (make me say yes, miming and guessing)
Going to Travel mimes and useful phrases
Countable and uncountable going to travel mimes
Going to and will TPR worksheets
TPR worksheets for other tenses
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous mimes
Xmas and New Year tense review mimes
Imperative TPR worksheets
Imperative pick and act TPR game
Good behaviour mimes (imperative)
TPR worksheets for other grammar points
Prepositions of position TPR worksheets
Prepositions of position miming games
Prepositions of position making sentences TPR game
and see above for an article on the topic.
Can and can’t TPR worksheets
Can and can’t miming coin game
and see above for an article on the topic.
Comparative and superlative TPR worksheets
Comparative adjectives miming games
Comparative and superlative miming games
Singular and plural TPR worksheets
Singular and plural possessives TPR game
Other TPR grammar worksheets
Gradable and extreme adjectives miming game
and see above for an article on “a” and “and”
Worksheets for teaching gestures
Body language and gestures cultural training page
TPR worksheets for presentation skills training
Presentations voice and body roleplays
Gestures for presentations and related useful phrases
Body language and gestures for presentations (simpler version of the one above)
Other uses of miming
TPR worksheets for functional language
Meeting people mimes (in this cheap e-book)
Restaurant language mimes (in this very cheap e-book)
Likes and dislikes TPR coin game
Phrases for negotiations mimes, brainstorming and key words
Discussion skills phrases miming game
Everyday English social expressions mimes
TPR worksheets for vocabulary
Feelings drawing and miming games
Appearance opposites games (including drawing games, miming games, reversi and, coin game and roleplays)
Personality opposites miming games
Adjectives for describing objects games (reversi, jigsaw, drawing and miming)
British and American engineering vocabulary games (including miming, drawing, jigsaw, reversi, and dominoes, plus collocations practice)
Language of trends miming game (great for Business and IELTS classes)
Updated 14 August 2022
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New one just added:
https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/functions/discussion-skills-miming-game/
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thanks alex. where can i find other adult worksheets which follow krashen’s (natural aquisition) theory but are not TPR or miming? many thanks
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Hi Charles
Neither an expert on nor much of a fan of Krashen, I’m afraid. What might such a worksheet be like??
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Miming games work surprisingly well on Zoom, as the person who is miming can see what they are doing and so better work out why other people don’t understand. It should also hopefully help persuade students to still use gestures while in online classes, and their own online meetings, and to watch the other people’s images more carefully instead of checking their emails at the same time. It’s also a good idea in classes where students have to wear masks and so are losing some ability to communicate with facial expressions and should use their bodies more to make up for it.
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