Category Archives: Teaching young learners

This was a guest piece of mine on a blog that recently disappeared (rather than just moving and becoming annoyingly inconvenient like mine has done). Good timing if you’re still in the first few classes. The challenges of teaching young … Continue reading →

Unlike most of the games I have given variations for in previous articles in this series, this is not (yet?) well known as an EFL game. I tried it in my classes for the first time about four years ago … Continue reading →

The ‘classic’ version The students throw something at various targets depending on what the teacher says. Possible targets include letters, words, pictures, phonemic symbols, classroom objects, realia or flashcards; and these can be on the whiteboard, at the front of … Continue reading →

The classic version: Students sit in a circle (on the floor or on chairs) and throw a beach ball (or other soft ball) to each other while shouting out the target vocabulary or grammar. This game is good for: Any … Continue reading →

In case anyone thought I was republishing my MET articles to show off that I’d been published there, here is the beginning of a series I wrote for the very slightly less famous Shane Japan Teachers’ Newsletter: Introducing new games … Continue reading →