Some people may have noticed from my last list of new stuff that “my boom” (as we say in Janglish) is writing about moving around and getting students to move around in class. In fact, it’s so much of an obsession that there is too much to put in one post, so I thought I’d start with what is for some reason by far the most popular topic on TEFLtastic: grammar. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Grammar through body language and gestures in TEFL articles
Using body language and gestures to teach grammar – LINK UPDATED
52 TPR grammar games – LINK UPDATED
Physical games to practice a/ an
TPR activities for prepositions of position
TPR games for can/ can’t for ability
TPR grammar worksheets
TPR grammar worksheets for teaching tenses
TPR worksheets for present tenses
Present Simple TPR worksheets
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
Adverbs of manner games (miming, make me say yes and ladder game) – NEW
Gradable and extreme adjectives miming game
and see above for an article on “a” and “and”
Similar on vocabulary, pronunciation, etc coming up. For more of the most reliable and adaptable activities in TEFL, see the TEFLtastic Classics tag below.
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.