Top 5 ESL Advanced Conversation Games and Activities | TEFL Ideas for Higher-Level English Learners

If you're looking for some of the best ESL advanced conversation ideas, have a look at these TEFL games and activities for higher-level students. These advanced ESL activities will push your students to the next level in their language learning journey. You'll pick up lots of tips and tricks for teaching English conversation to higher-level students. ----------- One of my favourite activities for higher-level English learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moqF6Ef2Q4k --------- Want to find out more about teaching advanced English conversation? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/advanced-english-conversation/ 101 ESL Activities for Adults: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #teachingenglishwithjackie #englishconversation #teachingenglish #eslteacher #tefl Check out these higher-level online games and activities for ESL from @Easy ESL Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UcHGVvaLh8 ----------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ----------- Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:12 Closest in Meaning 0:44 Dictogloss 1:15 Future forms 1:49 Freeze group writing 2:18 Find something in common 2:45 Conclusion Transcript for Games and Activities for More Advanced English Learners: Hey everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL activities for higher-level students or advanced students. The first one I have is closest in meaning. So this is kind of an English proficiency style activity. Students have a target sentence and then they have some other sentences, maybe three or four additional ones. They have to match the one that is closest in meaning, and obviously, for higher-level students, the differences can be very subtle. You don't need to make it super obvious. It can be kind of shades of gray and then you can have a discussion about why each one is maybe a little closer or less close in meaning. The next one is dictogloss. Find or write a passage that contains a lot of the target grammar or vocabulary and then put students into pairs. Then read out the passage at a much faster than normal pace for that level of students. They have to listen carefully, take a few notes, and then when you're done, they try to recreate what they heard with their partners, either by speaking or writing. Repeat the process again and students add more information and finally, they can compare what they have with the original version. The next one is something I like to do, future forms and predictions with my higher-level students. So students are usually quite proficient at using "I'm going to" or, "I will" or using the simple present to talk about things like schedules. What they're not proficient at is using them all together and kind of knowing the subtle differences in between them and what situation you use, I will do something or, I'm going to do something. So yeah, have a quick lesson on that and it would be it's actually quite interesting and very useful, even for very, very high-level students. The next one is freeze group writing. So this is where you start a few stories or have the students start a few stories and you say freeze. Then they pass their papers to the next person who adds a couple more sentences. Freeze, pass it along, and then I'll do that for a few rounds until I'll say okay, this is the last round, wrap up the story and then that person will wrap up the story. And then you can read out the stories or just have students read them individually by themselves. The next one is finding something in common. This is kind of a mingling-type activity that's a great icebreaker. So all the students stand up with a pen and paper in their hands and they have to circulate around the classroom and the goal is to talk to everybody in the class to find out their name and then also to find out something that they have in common with, maybe they both play piano or they have two siblings or something like that. Just kind of something, maybe like a little bit unusual that they wouldn't have in common with all the other students in the class. Alright, so that's it those are my top five ESL activities for higher-level students. If you like this video please hit like, subscribe, and also be sure to check out my blog post with a ton more ideas for advanced English learners. Until next time, bye everybody.