All original materials…

Here are all the original materials I have posted to date…

Animal Treasure Hunt

Our third treasure hunt is an animal-themed one. It pretty much follows the same sort of idea as the other 2 I’ve posted, but all the clues describe animals. You can use it to review animal vocabulary, as part of an animal unit, CLIL science lesson, etc. What to do Download the PDF at the […]

Treasure hunt for reviewing vocabulary

I often do treasure hunts around my classes and sometimes in the open air, either on a playground or open safe space with my younger learners. I thought I’d share this one I made a couple of years ago that I use now and again as it’s easy to print, cut up and use. How […]

Verbo! An irregular verbs card game based on Uno.

I developed this game to practise irregular verbs and help students learn which verbs go with which. What to do Download the printable PDF at the end of the page. Print it off and laminate it. There is a card reverse included in the PDF to print the cards double-sided. How to play Students are […]

Back to school game for personal information

I have developed this game for my classes to have a fun way to review simple introduction questions. I use a ball to review the questions with the class first. I pass the ball to a student and ask a question, they then have to answer it and then pass the ball to someone else […]

Connect 4

This is a no preparation activity you can do to revise virtually any subject for controlled sentence formation practice with young learners, though I suppose if you wanted to, elementary adults might also like this game! Materials All you need is a whiteboard and markers in at least 2 different colours. If you havenet got […]

Tenses Rummy

Tenses Rummy

I created this game to do controlled practice of verb tenses in positive, negative and interrogative forms. Setting up Print the cards, laminate and cut them out. That’s it! I have used this with groups of up to 8 players, however if you have bigger groups you may want to print off 2 copies. You […]

Christmas Bingo Game

Christmas Bingo Game

This is another in a series of simple bingo games to learn and practise vocabulary. This time on the subject of Christmas, to fit in with your festive planning. I usually have a range of activities to do for each subject. Such as a song, game, worksheet, craft, etc.. Setting up There are bingo boards […]

Funny Face Bingo

Funny Face Bingo Game

I developed this game to learn and practise vocabulary related to the face. I usually have a range of activities to do for each subject. Such as a song, game, worksheet, craft, etc. so this game was develloped to fit in with my planning. Setting up There are face boards with diverse options, for different […]

Autumn Tree Infant Bingo Game

Autumn Tree Infant Bingo Game

This game was developed to play while teaching about Autumn. I usually have a range of activities to do for each subject. Such as a song, game, worksheet, craft, etc. I didn’t have a game to play, so I made this one. Setting up There are tree boards and leaf tokens. Print off the pdf […]

Infinite Christmas Card

This Christmas card folds infinitely from a Christmas tree, to a present, which you open to reveal a photo of the child. It’s a really lovely and very different craft for any classroom, not just the ESL one. I adapted the original idea from Tiktok creator, @creationsbylynzb79, and created this downloadable template to make life […]

naughty elves christmas board game

Naughty Elves Christmas Board Game

This is a Christmas Board game I designed for use in class. I used it the first time this year and it worked really well. The Story Christmas is coming and all the Elves are working very hard at the North Pole making all the presents for Santa. Santa gives a prize every year to […]

Tinder Dates

This is a writing activity I put together for a teen class I have to get them writing short texts. In this activity they need to imagine they are on Tinder, or a similar dating app and write their profile, or profiles of imaginary people. There are no downloads really, as you can just do […]