This presentation features 10 easy ESL activities an ESL teacher can teach big classes effectively.

1. Top 10 ESL Activities for Big
Classes
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2. #1: Is that Sentence Correct?
You can use this activity with 1 student or 100! It’s also very
easy to adjust the activity from beginner to advanced.
http://www.eslactivity.org/english-grammar-activity-is-that-sentence-
correct/

3. #2: Videos in the ESL Classroom
Videos can be
a great tool
to use with
large ESL classes.
They are interesting,
motivating and
engaging for most students.
http://www.eslactivity.org/use-video-in-the-esl-classroom/

4. #3: Presentations for ESL Students
Task-based learning is a great way to make learning more
memorable.
http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/presentation-project-ideas/

5. #4: Concentration
http://www.eslactivity.org/concentration-an-esl-vocabulary-game/
This is an excellent activity for beginners or intermediate
students and children especially love to play it.

6. #5: Just a Minute
http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/esl-speaking-activity-just-a-minute/
This is a great
warm-up activity
for higher-level
teenagers or adults.
They idea is that students
have to speak about
a certain topic
for an entire minute
without stopping.

7. #6: Reading Activities
http://www.eslactivity.org/an-esl-reading-lesson-plan-template/
This is an ESL Reading Lesson Plan Template for how to
conduct one of these lessons the CELTA way

8. #7: ESL Surveys
Surveys are great
because they’re
entirely student-centered
and they also
cover all 4-skills
(reading, writing,
listening, speaking).
http://eslspeaking.org/6-esl-survey-ideas/

9. #8: Board Games
These are a
natural choice
for large classes
of ESL students
because you can
break up any number
of students
up into
groups of 3-5.
http://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/esl-board-games/

10. #9: Running Dictation
Running dictation also makes a great warm-up activity for
that Monday morning 9am class
http://eslspeaking.org/esl-game-running-dictation/

11. #10: Odd One Out
Put students into pairs and they compete against
each other to add an element of fun to it.
http://www.eslactivity.org/odd-one-out-esl-warm-up-game/

12. These are simple yet fun activities your students can actively
participate in. They will surely have fun while they learn at
the same time.
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