Word Games & Tiny Twists #3: How do you spell…?

This is one of my favourite games which you can use at all levels and for a range of different purposes.  In a nutshell, you call out words and pupils spell them.  Sounds riveting, doesn’t it?  Well, there’s a bit more to it than that.  The basic questions which underpin any activity on this blog [...]

Word Games & Tiny Twists #2: Word Stairs

For this game, all you need is a write-on whiteboard or visualiser.  Write up dashes across and down the board so that each successive line has an extra dash: Pupils suggest words to fill in the dashes, each word being one letter longer than the previous word.  For a beginner’s class, that can be the [...]

Word Games & Tiny Twists #1: Word Chains

This is a new series of posts looking at ways of kicking off a lesson.  I’ve always preferred getting going as soon as the first pupil arrives.  It gives value to the start of the lesson rather than allowing a couple of minutes of down-time from which I’ve then got to drum up some pace.  [...]