TEFL Grammar Games and Activities | Teaching English Grammar to Children, Teenagers or Adults

Teaching English grammar to ESL/EFL students can be a little bit boring! But, it doesn't have to be with these fun and engaging TEFL grammar games and activities. The key to teaching grammar is a variety of interactive ESL grammar activities. Watch the video to find out all the details! ------------------------------ More ESL grammar games and activities: Full blog post: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-grammar-activities/ ----------------------------- Listening lessons are ideal for teaching English grammar. Find out how to plan one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTLTCjtRJo& ------------------------------- Want to find out more about teaching grammar to English learners? 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities: https://amzn.to/3eD0F71 Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie #teachingenglishwithjackie #tefl #esl #teachingenglish --------------------------------------- More ESL grammar games from @The Language Lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp2O2NtS53I ---------------------------------------- Transcript: Hey everybody, it's Jackie Bolen from esleaking.org. So today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL grammar activities. Number one is: is that sentence correct? This is a simple activity you can use in class or for homework or even on an exam of some kind. Write down a bunch of sentences on the PowerPoint or the board or a worksheet and put students into pairs. They have to decide if the sentence is correct and then if it's incorrect, they have to make the required changes. The next grammar activity on this list is flashcard sentences (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIbOJklCO8&). When I teach kids I never step foot into the classroom without a set of flashcards. They're super useful for a ton of different games and activities including helping students make grammatically correct sentences. The next one is board games ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2qGOdfoiVk). Board games are super easy to make and you can tailor them to just about any grammatical concept or vocabulary set as well. Some ones in particular that work super well for board games are advice using should or shouldn't, reported speech, the simple past and talking about future possibilities. You can totally make your own. I usually will use like questions and then I have students answer those questions when they land on that square. Another one is surveys. I love to use surveys. I'm sure my students would probably tell you the same thing. I use them at least once a month in my classes. They cover all four skills, they get students out of their seats walking around talking to everybody and you can use them for a ton of different things. One of my favorites is the PP (present perfect) and the simple past. Students would make a question in the pp or I have preset ones written down on the paper. For example, have you ever been to another country? They would have to find a student who said yes, I have. And then once they find that person, they have to ask a follow-up question using the simple past. For example, where did you go or who did you go with. And then they find out the answer and then they write that down on their paper. The final one is dictation practice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnsWh77tMM). I know it's a little bit old school and kind of not really like one of the new communicative activities that most ESL teachers would use. However, it does have some value in the classroom. So basically just dictate some sentences to the students and they have to write them down. It's a super simple way also to practice things like spelling and punctuation. If you want to like level it up a little bit and make it more difficult, dictate some questions and then students have to write answers or dictate some statements and then students have to make the questions. Or, you could just dictate some statements and then students have to put them in the correct order to make a conversation. So that way you can take it just from a simple grammar kind of listening thing into something that also focuses on meaning. That's it for my ESL grammar activities. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:08 Is that sentence correct? 0:30 Flashcard sentences? 1:01 Board games 1:46 Surveys 2:37 Dictation practice 3:27 Conclusion Tags: esl grammar, english grammar, esl grammar game, esl grammar games, esl grammar activity, esl grammar activities, teaching english grammar, teaching esl grammar, tefl grammar, tefl grammar game, tefl grammar games, tefl grammar activity, tefl grammar activities, tefl grammar lesson, tefl grammar lessons, esl grammar lesson, esl grammar lessons, esol grammar game, esol grammar games, esol grammar activity, esol grammar activities