Fun ESL Speaking Activity for Kids: Hot Potato Game | Teach English grammar with this activity

The Hot Potato Game is a great way to get your ESL students to speak. This ESL activity is a fun way to get your students talking. Keep on reading for all the details about Hot Potato, traditionally a great party game that can also be used for a quick ESL speaking activity for a great warm-up or filler activity. Try out this hot potato game with your English learners today. They'll have a fun time reviewing key vocabulary words or practicing English grammar. Hot Potato is ideal for young learners but can also be used with all ages. ------------------- • An English Speaking activity for teens "Pictionary": : https://youtu.be/sbD2b2-lHxo • "The disappearing conversations" An Easy Activity to Improve ESL Speaking Skills ESL by: @Twinkl ESL: Resources for English Teachers https://youtu.be/VWFYC3ZquiU ------------------- More details about the hot potato game: Full blog post: https://eslspeaking.org/hot-potato-esl-speaking-game-for-kids/ Want to find more low or No Prep ESL activities, including Hot Potato? Check out: https://amzn.to/3KbTtgU -------------------- Check out another ESL speaking activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMCLcm58-A --------------------- https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #hotpotato #eslgames Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:12 What is hot potato? 0:27 The actual hot potato? 0:33 What about music? 0:47 How to prevent injuries 1:10 How to play hot potato 1:40 Variation for advanced students 2:18 Conclusion Transcript for the hot potato game for ESL: Hey everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite ESL activities for kids. It's called hot potato and maybe you've played the game or seen the game before. It's where you pass around this like potato thing, there's a timer that goes off on it and then whoever is holding the potato is the loser. I kind of do a variation of it for my ESL classes. You can use the actual potato thing that you can find on Amazon or you can put some music on like on a youtube video or an mp3 file or whatever and then you can just control it yourself. You can even look on youtube like a hot potato song and then it'll even do it for you so it's quite simple to do. It's more random that way so you can pass around the potato or you can just get like any classroom object like a board marker, stuffed animal, anything like that. I prefer something kind of soft to avoid injury because you know students will be passing it quickly and sometimes they'll throw it so you know. I'm sure you can find something. So students pass it around and then whoever is holding the ball when the music stops, they have to do something. So this really depends on the age and level of students. If it's total beginners I would just have a stack of flashcards and I would just hold up the flashcard to them. whoever is holding the potato and I'd say, what is it and then they could say it's a dog. Or, I would ask a simple question so I'd show them a flashcard and I'd say what colour is the t-shirt? It's green, something like that. More advanced students, for example, if you're doing comparatives, you could show them two objects and then they could say, the cat is bigger than the dog, something like that. Or, the boy is shorter than the girl. I don't know something. So it can really be based on anything you want or if you're teaching maybe like about the simple past you could ask them questions like, what did you do last night? And then students could say I watched tv last night. Or, what did you do last summer? Well, last summer I went to an English camp, something like that. So get creative. There are a million different things you can do here. Tags: hot potato ESL, hot potato game, hot potato games, ESL hot potato, English grammar, speaking game, speaking activity, teachers, teaching activities, fun activities, games, english, learning english, esl games, english teacher, english, learning language, Classroom games, ESL kids, TEFL, TEFL activities, TEFL classroom, No prep games, Low prep game, Low prep activity, classroom activities, classroom tips, hot potato,