Top 5 ESL Activities and Games for Beginners | TEFL Beginner Lesson Plan Ideas

If you’re looking for some ESL activities for beginners, you’ve come to the right place! Here are my top ESL games for beginners that are ideal for English lessons. It’s ESL for adults made easy. Beginners can be a bit tricky to teach because they don’t yet have the skills to engage in things like free talking or open discussions. This video contains plenty of tips and tricks to use particularly for adult learners who are at a beginning level of English. ----------------------- More ideas for beginner ESL activities: Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/top-10-esl-activities-adult-beginners/ ---------------------- Try out this simple ESL activity that works well for beginners of all ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnsWh77tMM& -------------------- Want to find out more about ESL games and activities for beginners? 101 ESL Activities for Kids: https://amzn.to/3dYOAJX Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ Tags: esl beginner, esl beginner lessons adults, esl beginner lessons for adults, esl for beginner adult, esl beginner adults, esl for beginners adults, esl activities for beginner, esl activities for beginners, esl games and activities beginner, esl beginner activities, esl games for beginners, esl beginner games, esl for beginner adults, adult esl games, adult esl activities, adult esl games activities, tefl beginner, efl beginner Transcript: Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL activities for beginners. Alright, my first one is, is that sentence correct? This is a very simple grammar activity or it could also be used for vocabulary review. I write down some sentences, maybe around three or four or five sentences, depending on the level. Maybe very absolute beginners could handle maybe one sentence at a time. Some of them have mistakes and some of them don't. I put students into pairs and they have to discuss with their partners which sentences are incorrect and then what changes they would like to make it correct. The next one is surveys. High beginners can do surveys. If you like, or if you click the link down below, you can find out more about surveys on my website and how I make them. But basically, students have to circulate around the classroom to find someone who answers yes to one of their questions. For example, do you like ice cream? Do you have a brother? Sorry, that's my cat Lucy in the background! Are you from Busan? etc. And then once they find that person who answers yes to that question, they have to ask a follow-up question. For example, what's your favourite kind of ice cream? The next one is concentration. This is ideal for beginners who are learning new vocabulary words. I'll make up a bunch of cards and the way I do it depends on kind of the level. Some of them all have like a picture and then the vocabulary word or the word and then a description or opposites or something like that. Then I put students into groups of four and they place the cards face down in a random fashion. The first student chooses two cards. If they match, they keep them. If they don't match, they put them back in the same spot and then it becomes a memory game. Students can keep playing until they have used up all the cards, or all the cards are complete and this can lead to a whole bunch of other things. The next one is a story timeline. This is nice for beginners. You can find a simple story and then put each sentence or each action that happens on a separate piece of paper and then students can go in small groups and they can put the story into the correct order. The next one is videos. I love to use videos in my classes. Obviously, students love them but it's key to get the most educational value out of them. There are a few different things I do when I use them in my class for beginners. One is to use them to generate interest in a topic. I'll find a video and use that to set the context and use it as kind of a lead-in. We'll watch the short video and then I'll ask some questions or they can talk with their partner about it, or just shout out some words that they know from what they saw in the video, etc., something like that. I also like to use videos as a way if we, for example, are talking about the weather, I'll find a video of two people talking about the weather and then I'll ask students to listen and then write down every word related to weather that you hear. It can be a nice lead-in or it could be a nice review activity as well. Those are my favourite ESL activities for beginners. Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:08 Is that sentence correct? 0:47 Surveys 1:32 Concentration 2:16 Story timeline 2:46 Videos 4:02 Conclusion