Creating Games with ESL Teachers

Conducting teacher training with ESL teachers at Laica has been a good opportunity to collaborate and bounce off ideas that can be applied in the working classroom.  In one of the classes I teach at Laica, we were learning about how to utilize games in the classroom.

CHALLENGE! In my lesson, I provided the teachers with some slips of paper and told them to create a game on the spot on English adjectives.  They were very hesitant at first, but later came up with some wonderful games:

• Guess the adjective (students place a slip of paper with an adjective on their forehead while others help them to guess what it is. 
• Connecting sentences with adjectives (students have a slip of paper with an adjective and have to create a sentence utilizing it.  The next student connects their sentence with the previous one). 
• Scrabble (students have to unscramble the letters of adjectives and then write a sentence on the board)
• Guess the personality with envelopes (students receive an envelope and open it up to read a sentence.  The sentence describe a person they know without mentioning the adjective.  The student has to guess the adjective).