As I've gotten more involved in teaching ESL to adults, I've created a boxful of games, worksheets, and assorted pictures and papers that others might find helpful for either using directly in class or getting some good ideas for more personalized ideas. Since I have benefited greatly from the generosity of other teachers posting their materials, I'm offering these resources for anyone to use in the classroom, and to adapt as they would like. If you have any questions about using them, or suggestions for how to make them better, feel free to post a comment.
I'm in between jobs at the moment due to moving to Canada from Chicago, so hopefully the next month will see a lot of these resources getting on the internet, but we'll see how I do.
The first one is a simple board game template to practice "be going to" and time expressions for the future such as "tomorrow", "next week", "in two days".
The students work in small groups, ideally no more than four as the pace starts to slow down the more students you add to a group. This game works particularly well at getting all levels involved as it encourages the higher level students to help out weaker students, and there is a lot of repetition for the weaker students to pick up on example answers. The more advanced students will take the game as an opportunity to have a conversation as well, especially with some helpful encouragement.
In the past I have used coins as the "dice", moving two spaces for head and three spaces for tails, since I didn't have access to dice. However, using coins in this way definitely makes for A LOT of repetition, be that good or bad.
There is also the problem that different groups of students will finish at different times, but they are generally happy to play more than once.
Download the pdf of the board game
Especially since this is the first resource I am sharing, please report any issues your are having with the download process or errors I might have made in creating the game.
Thanks!
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