ESL Games, Speaking & Vocabulary-Building Activities Vol.1

ESL Games, Speaking & Vocabulary Activities Bundle

**ESL Games, Speaking & Vocabulary Activities Bundle** *Looking for a fresh and engaging way of helping your students practice their Speaking skills?* **SECTION 1** The first two resources included are the ESL Conversation Cards sets, created to provide teachers with the tools needed for successful speaking lessons, covering levels from complete beginners up to advanced, with questions suitable both young learners as well as adult learners. Each set contains 160 Conversation Cards, for a total of 320 Conversation Cards each with one question that will serve as conversation starter. Each card is professionally illustrated, questions are easily worded and imaginative, there are no repetitions and they are designed specifically to keep learners engaged. Each set is divided into 10 topics, so you can use them throughout the year as you gradually introduce each unit.The topics covered by the combined sets are: *SET 1* * Introductions| About Me (Pages 3-4) * Family (Pages 5-6) * Sports & Activities (Pages 7-8) * School (Pages 9-10) * Hobbies & Interests (Pages 11-12) * Countries & Nationalities (Pages 13-14) * Body Parts (Pages 15-16) * Music,TV, Books and Cinema (Pages 17-18) * Money and Shopping (Pages 19-20) * Food (Pages 21-22) *SET 2* * Being Yourself (Pages 3-4) * Health (Pages 5-6) * Friendships (Pages 7-8) * Future Plans (Pages 9-10) * Handling Stress (Pages 11-12) * The Environment (Pages 13-14) * Crime & Punishment (Pages 15-16) * Work Life (Pages 17-18) * Voting & Elections (Pages 19-20) * Heroes (Pages 21-22) Both sets are also available on Google Slides. Inside the main product, you will find a page with the Google Slide Access Link. As well as the original card sets I have also included FULLY EDITABLE templates. Card Shape, Color-Codes and Topics are left unchanged, however now you can add your own text and customise the questions. Each page is reproducible, allowing you to create your own version of the cards. As part of your download you will find zip folders containing a total of 600+ Professionally Illustrated Clipart|Graphic Elements related to a variety of ESL topics. The images are grouped into sub-folders (by topic), so you can further customise your own version of the cards if you wish to do so . Each image has transparent background so you can easily blend it in with any resource. **SECTION 2** This section contains 60 pages (approx.) of: * Conversation Starters * Energizers * Team-Building Activities * Task Cards * Indoor & Outdoor Games * Vocabulary - Building Activities * Debates * Picture Speaking Prompts These games can be used as warmers, early-finishers or main activities. Each game comes with a set of clear instructions as well as material needed ( e.g playing cards). The activities are designed to allow flexibility and can be easily altered according to the students’ needs. The Games & Activities included are: * Turning Tables * Detective On-Scene * Mall Thought Chain * Quick Thinking Challenge * Undercover Agent * Odd Socks * The Polygraph Game * Weekend in a Flash * It’s Not What I Say, It’s What I Mean! * Lost * Would You Rather…? * Tell Me About…. (Word Challenge) * Family Tree Research * Film Quiz * To The Moon and Back * Theme Puzzles * Card Matches * Noah’s Mini-Arc * Famous Duo Game * Flag Collectors * Fruit Salad Game * Blind Guesses * Dilemmas * A Hero’s Story * The Chain * Go Bananas * Human Bingo * Word Grab * The Toilet Roll * Name Six * Ball O’ String * Mixed Salad * Help Me! * The Paper Plane * Newspaper Sumo There are also 8 pages of Picture Speaking Prompts with Differentiated activities. The entire section is also available on Google Slides. In the Google Slides version there are EDITABLE templates for the Speaking Picture Prompts activities, so that teachers have full flexibility as for levels and choice in questions. **SECTION 3** The last section contains 150 pages (approx.) of Vocabulary-Building Activities & Games such as: * Sentence-Building Exercises * Crosswords * Word-searches * Magic Squares * Word Matching * Spelling Quest * Secret Trails and more Includes a FULL ANSWER BOOKLET. Exercises can be done in groups, as a class or independently. All activities are professionally illustrated to provide visual clues which are especially important for beginner learners. All activities are also available on Google Slides. There is also an extra Activity Pack centred around one of the most iconic contemporary British songs of all time: “Wonderwall” by Oasis. This serves a cultural activity as well as a speaking one. The activities are differentiated and the entire resource is designed to allow flexibility in terms of teaching approach.