TEFLing Without Resources (Except This One!)
By Elliot Lord
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About this ebook
This is a collection of TEFL lessons that are effective and fun without needing to prepare any resources (well, you might need some paper at times!). There are 64 plans (and 31 songs) for the different areas of study, being:
Grammar Presentations/ Follow-Up Activities/ Vocabulary Activities/ Games/ Miscellaneous/ Songs With Learning Objectives/ Songs For Children.
They cover the ability levels from beginners to upper intermediate, though some can also be used for any level, including advanced.
There are plans that can be used for children, teenagers and adults and they are especially useful for new teachers and in places where it is not so easy to access many resources.
Over the years, many colleagues have used these ideas and reported that they work well so with this book, you'll be able to deliver lots of fun and interesting activities for students of all ages.
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TEFLing Without Resources (Except This One!) - Elliot Lord
Contents
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5. Introduction
Grammar Presentations
8. Can (ability) - Pre-Int
9. Comparatives and Superlatives – Pre-Int
10. First Conditional - Pre-Int
11. Future Continuous – Upper-Int
12. Question Forms - Pre-Int
13. Question Tags – Pre-Int/ Int
14. Reported Statements – Pre-Int/ Int
15. Second Conditional - Pre-Int
16. Subject/ Object Questions - Pre-Int
17. Used to (past use) - Pre-Int
Follow-up Activities
19. Future Continuous – Upper-Int
20. Future Perfect – Upper-Int
21. Modal Verbs of Deduction - Int
22. Passive forms - Pre-Int
23. Past Simple/ Continuous – Elem/ Pre-Int
24. Present Perfect Continuous – Pre-Int >
25. Present Perfect Games (1st use) – Pre-Int >
26. Present Perfect vs. past tenses – Pre-Int >
27. Relative Clauses - Pre-Int
28. Relative Clauses – Int >
29. Reported Commands – Int >
30. Second Conditional (various) - Pre-Int
31. Should (advice) - Pre-Int
32. Subject Questions – Pre-Int >
33. Third Conditional - Upper-Int
34. Will: predictions - Pre-Int
Vocabulary Activities
36. Adjectives (-ed/ -ing) – Int >
37. Opposites - any
38. Phonetic Symbols Chart – Elem >
39. Prefixes and Suffixes – Int >
40. Prepositions of Movement - Pre-Int
41. Prepositions of Place - Pre-Int
42. Prepositions of Time – Elem >
43. Similar Words Chart – Elem >
44. Telling the Time - Elem
45. Turn About (game show) – Pre-Int >
Games
47. Alphabet Race – Pre-Int >
48. Count Down – Pre-Int >
49. The Four Categories – Pre-Int >
50. Mallet's Mallet – Int >
51. Question forms/ vocabulary games (various)– Elem >
52. Rizla Game – Elem >
53. Short Answers – Pre-Int >
54. Simon Says: various uses – Elem >
55. Taboo – Int >
56. Various questioning games – Pre-Int >
57. Win, Lose or Draw – Elem >
58. Wipe Out - Int
59. Word Expansions – Int >
60. Word Puzzle – Pre-Int >
61. More vocabulary games – Pre-Int >
Miscellaneous
63. Consequences – Int >
64. Conversations – Int >
65. Descriptions – Int >
66. Human Substitution Table - any
67. Improvised Stories – Pre-Int >
68. Lateral Thinkers – Int >
70. Mad Debates – Int >
71. Phrasal Verb Revision – Pre-Int >
72. Revising Past Simple, etc. (Wipe Out II) – Elem >
73. Running Dictations – Pre-Int >
74. Teach them gambling! - Elem >
75. Tongue Twisters – any
77. The X Files – Pre-Int >
77. Songs With Learning Objectives
78. Songs For Children
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Introduction
This book developed from ideas I had when I taught English as a Foreign Language. Sometimes I wanted to do something more interesting or more fun than what was in the course books. Some things were inspired by other colleagues or things like TV game shows. Over time, I'd come up with a notebook full of lesson plans that were fun and effective and required minimal preparation. None of us likes spending hours writing or cutting out things for something that's only going to last for 15 minutes so the underlying principle was