Word Challenge Whiteboard Race: A Simple TEFL Writing Activity | ESL Spelling game

Blog post for this Word Challenge Whiteboard Race: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-spelling-game/ I’m ALL about activities that require basically nothing in the way of materials or preparation time. It’s ideal to have at least a few of them in your back pocket to pull out in case of emergency, namely a last-minute class thrown at you a few minutes before it starts. This word challenge whiteboard race is one such example, so watch the full video for all the details Want to find more ESL Writing Activities, Games & Teaching Tips besides this word challenge activity? Check out my book: https://amzn.to/3uAchAM https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingEnglish Transcript: Hi this is jackie from esl speaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about a very simple game called word challenge. It's basically an esl spelling game. I love activities that require nothing in the way of preparation and then also nothing in the way of materials. These are some of the best activities to have if you kind of have this emergency class that's thrown at you or you have a few extra minutes to kill and you finished all the things that you had on your lesson plan. This is kind of a nice one to do. So the way it works is that you can have a word list of vocabulary words that you've recently taught your students or for the no-prep version just kind of come up with them on the fly. It depends how good you are at that i personally prefer to have a list coming up with things on the fly is possible but I get kind of stressed out about it so I definitely prefer to have a list and then put students into teams so the number of teams will depend on how much whiteboard space you have. So if you have quite a big whiteboard you might want to have like three or four different teams because everyone needs to line up in a section. If you have say four teams of four you can draw lines, three lines down the board and each team gets one section of the whiteboard and then the first person at the board, one person from each team will take a marker and line up and then their three teammates will be behind them. Then the teacher says a word and the first student to spell that word correctly gets one point for their team. I usually make a rule that the people behind them are not allowed to talk to them. If the people behind them can give hints it gets really crazy really really quickly, Everyone is yelling and screaming and just like it's kind of a lot so it's quite exciting to do it that way but I personally prefer just having quiet and then the students of the board can race and do it when you're done that the winner gets a point. Then the next person in line goes and that first person goes to the back of the line. All right if you like this activity please be sure to check out my book, ESL Writing Games and Activities. Also hit like, subscribe, and I'll catch you next time. Tags: esl, teaching esl, english, learning english, english teacher, learning language, ESL kids, TEFL classroom, classroom tips, TEFL, efl, tefl, teaching English, teaching teenagers english, teaching kids english, TESOL, no prep activity, low prep activity, low prep games, no prep games, no prep lessons, low prep lessons, easy lesson plan, simple lesson plan, esl writing activity, esl writing, writing ideas, writing activity, writing game, esl ideas, games for everyone, Writing prompt, Word Challenge, Whiteboard game, Whiteboard race, TEFL writing, Simple activities,