Five Senses ESL Activity for adult beginners | Teaching ESL with Jackie

If you’re looking for some ESL activities for adult beginners, you’ve come to the right place! This five senses ESL activity is perfect for helping students work on their vocabulary skills. It can easily be done through writing or speaking. Either way, it’s a fun activity to try out and it can be done over and over again with different objects throughout the course of a semester. Challenge your students to expand their descriptive vocabulary with this 5 senses activity. Go to the blog to find the five senses live worksheet. ------- • Full blog post with worksheets and more: https://eslspeaking.org/5-senses-activity/ • If you liked this video, watch this food-related ESL Activities: https://youtu.be/9BPf8gIx07M • Don't forget to check out @LinguishFranceLanguageSchoolForKids video about five senses here: https://youtu.be/1WpvdDsvrXk Want to find out more? Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/5-senses-activity/ ------ Want 101 ESL Activities for Teens and Adults? Check out my book: https://www.amazon.ca/101-ESL-Activities-Teenagers-Adults/dp/1530491851 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 #eslactivities ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript: Hey everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to share a quick activity called five senses. It's great for teaching English learners. You can use it as a quick warm-up or kind of a time filler. There are a ton of different ways to use this activity. You just have to bring an object into the class and I'll use the example of a can of coke and then students have to think about their five senses and then use words to describe that object. So I usually put students into pairs or groups of three or four and they can do this either by speaking or by writing. It's up to you, it doesn't matter for this activity. For example, I'm kind of doing this on the fly so be kind! Anyway, the can of coke, sight or seeing. If you look at the can, you could use colours to describe it like red and white, the writing on it you could describe that. You could say it's like a cylinder or like a tube it's like. It looks metallic on the top. Any of those words, so just kind of descriptive words to describe it. The smell, you could say it smells kind of like sweet or licoricey or I don't know. I feel like it tastes or smells a little bit like metallic or something because of the cans when you first put it to your mouth so any of those words. It tastes, I don't know, I don't like coke that much so I think it tastes bitter and like kind of harsh. Some people think it tastes sweet, and some people think it tastes delicious. I don't know, there are a million words you could use to describe how coke tastes or like fizzy. Fizzy I guess is really another good word. And then touch, touch is interesting you could say like it's liquidy or it's like fizzy or bubbly or yeah, so there are lots of words for that. Hearing is the last sense. So you could say like when you open the can, like the pop or like a pop or snap or something like that. Then when all the fizz comes out, it's kind of just like a rush of air or like a bubbly sound or something like that. You can do this with any object and of course, not all the things might apply so if you don't do a food or drink, obviously taste is kind of a weird, weird one because like who's gonna lick an eraser or like taste an eraser or a pencil or whatever. So you could just say like turn it into the four senses activity instead of the five senses or whatever, you know. Okay, so that's just a simple activity that is a time filler or warm-up. Try it out with your students and I think you'll like it. I always have a really good time and my students always come up with very creative words and they're actually way better at it than I am. I should have actually filmed them doing this for this video because my words are not as amazing as what they come up with usually. Alright, so if you like this video please hit like, subscribe, leave a comment below and tell me if you've tried it and what you think about this activity. Also, be sure to check out my book 101 ESL Activities for Adults. You can find it on Amazon. Alright, until next time. Thanks everybody, bye. Tags: esl,esl activities,learning games,teaching esl,teachers,teaching activities,teaching prompts,fun activities,games,english,English for beginners,learning english,esl games,english teacher, five senses live worksheet, Linguish: Language School for Kids, esl activities for adults, esl activities for teens,