What Are Our Favourite English Lesson Activities? TEFL Teachers' Ideas That Really Work - S01E22

What are our favourite activities to use in English lessons?In this episode of How to English with Gav & Em, we share some of the classroom activities that we keep coming back to — from activities in English teaching books to online resources and ideas we’ve created ourselves.We talk about case studies, telephone roleplays, grammar games, pronunciation and intonation activities, escape rooms, survival scenarios, email writing, connected speech, compound nouns and plenty more.We also discuss an important teaching question: what happens when students are having a great conversation… but completely forget to use the language you wanted them to practise?Whether you teach EFL, ESL, Business English or General English, we hope there are a few ideas here that you can borrow, adapt and try with your own students.☕ Support How to English Pod:https://ko-fi.com/howtoenglishpod🌐 Visit our website:https://www.howtoenglishpod.com/References:Choose the Best Candidate, Market Leader, Pearson Longman, 2nd Edition, pre-intermediate, unit 1Choose the Best Location, Business Results, Oxford, elementary, unit 3Auxiliary game, Three-Person Snap, Cutting Edge, Pearson, 3rd Edition, unit 1BEscape from the Moonlight Cottage, https://www.365escape.com/Pleasurable-Cottage.htmlEmail Style, https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/email-styleLife and Death Decisions, In Company, McMillan, upper-intermediate, 2002, unit 10Maze of Terror, New Cutting Edge, Pearson, upper-intermediate, 1999, pp,143-145Call Me On My Mobile, In Company, McMillan, elementary, 2002Intonation Directions/ Contradict Me, Pronunciation Games, Cambridge, 1995Timestamps00:00 – Support How to English Pod01:00 – Welcome & our favourite lesson activities03:00 – Case studies and problem-solving activities05:00 – Telephone roleplays that feel real07:00 – Auxiliary Snap: a deceptively difficult grammar game09:00 – Pronunciation Games: “Contradict Me”11:00 – Intonation, sentence stress and changing meaning12:00 – Life and death decisions15:00 – The Maze of Terror & practising modals17:00 – Should teachers force students to use target language?18:00 – Going online: Escape from Moonlight Cottage20:00 – LinguaHouse & writing email subject lines22:00 – Activities we create ourselves23:00 – Present perfect simple vs continuous with picture cards25:00 – “Whatcha Wanna Do?” and connected speech26:00 – The mystery bag: practising compound nouns28:00 – “How to…” activities and sequencing language29:00 – Countable & uncountable nouns30:00 – Mushrooms, survival tips & goodbye🎧 How to English with Gav & Em — a podcast about teaching and learning English as a foreign language.