While teenagers have a talent for looking at the adults in their lives with keen suspicion, it’s a sure bet that suggesting a game in class will turn those frowns upside down. After all, when teaching teens, laughter goes a long way to generating relaxed energy, as well as getting them out of their heads. Here are six of our favorite teen-safe games to add to your toolkit. 1. A-Z board race This is a speed and vocabulary game. To play, divide the class into two teams and give them a large lexical set to work with (food, clothing items, countries). Each team lines up in front of the whiteboard. The first student in each line runs to the board and writes a word belonging to the chosen lexical set that starts with “A”. Returning to their team, the second student adds a word starting with “B”, and so on, until a winning team has completed the entire alphabet or achieved the most words after a given time limit. Tip: If you wish, you can allow teams to leave a limited number of blank l...
David White is an Australian English teacher who has been living in Peru since 2001. In partnership with his wife Claudia, they are the owners of ¨English For You Language Institute´, an institute that specializes in the teaching of all levels of English from Basic (A1) to Advanced (C2) including international exam preparation. They are also the owners of ELT Educational Services and David is also the Headmaster of the American School, a respected bilingual ib school in Northern Peru.