Top 5 ESL Whiteboard Games and Activities | TEFL White Board Activity Ideas

Check out these fun and interactive ESL/EFL whiteboard games and activities. Have some fun with your English students by using the white board with these ideas. For whatever reasons, English learners love writing on the whiteboard which is why I love to try out some of these fun and engaging lesson plan ideas. ----------- Check out one of my favourite review games that uses the whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49gRYbDrqBQ' ------------ Want to find out more about ESL whiteboard games and activities? Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/fun-whiteboard-activities/ 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #eslactivities #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslgames #eslteacher #esl ---------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ---------- Try out this fun writing game from @Mike's Home ESL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLTGQVON8Y0&t=1s ----------- Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:08 Flyswatter 0:40 Disappearing text 1:04 Mixed up sentenes 1:23 Pictionary 1:35 Word association 2:00 Conclusion Transcript for TEFL white board games and activities: Hi everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL whiteboard games and activities. The first one is fly swatter. Write down a bunch of your target vocabulary on the whiteboard, just kind of in a random fashion. Put students into two teams and then one student from each team comes up to the front and they grab a fly swatter. You can give, for very absolute beginners, you could say the word and they could swat try to swat the word. The first person to swat it gets a point for their team. You erase it and then put down a new word into that spot. For higher-level students, you could give hints or clues about that word. Learn more about flyswatter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488eabHRk0E&t=3s. All right, the next one is disappearing text. So this is a whole class activity. Write down a sentence. The students all say it together, out loud and then erase one or two of the words. They say it again and then erase one or two words. Keep going until students will say the whole sentence but nothing is on the board. This is a really nice way to review some complicated grammar, just to help students get it inside their head at kind of more of a memorization level. The next one is mixed-up sentences. Write down a bunch of sentences on the board but they are mixed up in terms of word order. In pairs, students have to write down the sentences in the correct order. The first team to finish is the winner. It works best if you write down the mixed up sentences at the beginning of class before the students are in there. The next one is Pictionary. I'm sure you've played it before but it really is a nice way to review some vocabulary. Put students into teams. Have them draw some pictures. Their teammates guess. I'm sure you know the drill already for Pictionary. The last one is word association. This is kind of just like a brainstorming mind map kind of thing. If you're talking about Christmas, put Christmas, the word and then draw a big circle around Christmas. Get students to come up and they could write words like food, turkey, stuffing, gifts, toys, Santa, traditions, all that kind of thing. It's a nice way to help students activate their prior knowledge about a topic. Find out more about word association here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDWlRTYfHA. That's it! For even more ideas for whiteboard activities, be sure to check out the blog post. I've listed it down below and be sure to hit like, subscribe, and tell your friends.