The English teachers voice

  T eaching students online is so different from teaching in the regular classroom, and for this reason, teachers need to think and prepare all of their activities differently, and to be prepared for anything.  For this reason, warm-up or time-filling activities are essential in the English classroom . Students may be tired or have other things on their minds and diving straight into a textbook or grammar explanation can often lead to disastrous results. With a good warmup activity, you can put your students into English study mode, making them attentive,  interested, and ready to participate, or, when you have moments to spare, keep them occupied in a productive way. A warmup/ time-filling activity can also serve to review language from a previous lesson or prepare the class for a new topic. 100 of the Best Ever Classroom Games For Teaching English. No-preparation ESL Warm-up/ Time-filling activities Here is a list of warm-up/ time-filling activities that you can use w...

  How many times have you been in a situation where your class actually performs perfectly, they finishes all of their activities early and you are totally unprepared for the last 10 minutes of the class before the next teacher takes over? I think that most teachers have had this experience at one time or another. It is for this reason that every teacher needs a collection of easy to prepare time-filling activities ready to go at any time. Below are a selection of simple, yet fun activities which I enthusiastically recommend for every teacher. Letter string dictation This is a great way to lead into the topic that you want to cover in the class and also serves as a simple activity to help students recognize  letters of the alphabet . Think of a couple of questions for students to discuss in pairs or groups. Write the questions down and then dictate them as a long string of letters. For example  whatsyourfavouritecolour?   whatdidyoudoattheweekend?   whatkindofb...