3 Things: A Simple, No-Prep ESL Writing Activity | Teaching TEFL Writing For all ages

Blog post for 3 Things activity: https://www.eslactivity.org/3-things-esl-writing-activity/ If you’re looking for a fun, quick ESL writing activity, then you’ll certainly want to consider 3 things. It’s ideal for getting students to use their creative side and the other good thing is that it requires no materials except for paper and pen. Have some fun with English writing with your students today! Check out this fun TEFL writing activity. Want to find more Low Prep/ No prep ESL activities? Check out my book: https://amzn.to/3uAchAM https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingEnglish #teachingenglishwithjackie Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:30 3 Things: How to Do it 1:09 Finishing the activity 1:19 3 Things for lower-level students 1:30 Conclusion Transcript for 3 things writing activity: Hi, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about three things which is a very simple ESL writing activity. I love activities that require no preparation and no materials— they are some ESL teaching gold because if you have those last-minute classes, an English teaching emergency, whatever happens, it's good to have a few of these, kind of in your back pocket just to pull out. Three things, you put students into pairs and they each have to choose three random nouns: a person a place or a thing. It can be related to a theme such as Christmas or going to school, or school things, or just whatever you want. They write down those three nouns on a piece of paper and then they trade the paper with a partner. Their partner has to write a story based on these three random words so it can often be quite interesting and fun depending on the words that their partner has chosen. The story can be silly, not silly, serious, or not serious. I kind of leave it up to the students for whatever they want. Then, in the end, they trade back papers with their partner and they can each read the story that the other person has created for them. If you have a very small class, you can get students even to share their stories with the class. My version for very low-level students is that I get them to shout out the three words to me. I write them on the board and then I get students to kind of help me make the story but I do the writing on the whiteboard. Alright, if you like this activity idea, please check out my book ESL Writing Games and Activities. The link should be right up there. Please also hit like, subscribe, and tell your friends. Until next time, bye everybody. Tags: esl, teaching esl, english, learning english, english teacher, learning language, ESL kids, TEFL classroom, classroom tips, TEFL, efl, tefl, teaching English, teaching teenagers english, teaching kids english, ESL teaching jobs, TESOL, no prep activity, low prep activity, low prep games, no prep games, no prep lessons, low prep lessons, easy lesson plan, simple lesson plan, 3 things game, esl writing activity, esl writing, writing ideas, writing activity, writing game, esl ideas,