Elementary Resources

Edutopiahttps://www.edutopia.org/discussion/12-fun-speaking-games-language-learnersEvery teacher has faced the struggle of encouraging students to speak. Here’s a list of fun activities to get your students talking.

150 Amazing Writing prompts Pictureshttps://www.slideshare.net/kevcummins/150-amazing-writing-prompts-pictures

150 amazing images to use with students to help them with inspiring their imagination.

25 Animated Picture For Kids’ Tongue Twistershttps://teachingutopians.com/2020/03/01/25-animated-picture-for-kids-tongue-twisters/As you know, there are many tongue twisters. Not only are they a great way to improve pronunciation skills, but also fun and entertaining.

50 Creative Third Grade Writing Prompts (Free Printable!)https://www.weareteachers.com/third-grade-writing-prompts/Taking the leap from the primary level to the intermediate grades. Question cards for speaking and writing.

50 Questions To Ask Elementary Kids To Check In & Get To Know Themhttps://www.weareteachers.com/questions-to-ask-elementary-kids/Who is your best friend and why? What can I, as your teacher, do to help you this year?

50 Would You Rather Scenarios For  Studentshttps://www.weareteachers.com/would-you-rather-scenarios-elementary/Would You Rather scenarios are a fun way to jumpstart student conversations. Use them for debates, writing prompts, brain boosts, classroom discussions, lessons on comparisons, or even graph the results!

83 Teen Writing Prompts – Robyns.Worldhttps://robyns.world/2012/01/22/teen-writing-prompts/There are some great prompts in here that would work well for bloggers too I think.

Amazing Tongue Twister Raphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLmcRZte78

A quick rap with words in the alphabetical order. Listen for fun!

Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games | American Englishhttps://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/activate-board-games#child-1494

Games for Learning American English

Anchor – The easiest way to make a podcasthttps://anchor.fm/Create, distribute, host, and monetize your podcast, 100% free. Tutorial by Richard Byrne(6:11) PrivacyGet a free guide here

Ask a question and tell two thingshttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jlGlgxs7EOdhJ_dRWWnPR9PBjQK2H3Ec8yoU24W0ptg/edit#slide=id.i0

A printable board game to play with dice

Chuck Dillonhttps://www.chuckdillon.net/

Illustrations to describe, discuss and write about

CLASS DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES: NO HIDING, NO OVERPOWERING – ELT-CATIONhttps://eltcation.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/class-discussion-techniques-no-hiding-no-overpowering/‘Split into small teams and discuss …’  Why won’t they discuss? There might be a whole lot of reasons for that: I don’t know enough words. I’m worried about my grammar. I’m …

Describing windows around the world – On the same pagehttps://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/describing-windows-around-the-world/Window Swap is a website where people from all around the world submit views from their windows in short 10-minute long videos, most of them including background sounds.

Discussionhttps://eltbuzz.com/prompts/Just click on New Question and you will always have something to talk about in class, pairs, or small groups.

ESL Conversation Lessons | ESL Videohttps://www.eslvideo.com/conversation.phpFree ESL conversation / discussion questions for online classes

Find someone who… generator – EFL Summer Schoolhttps://eflsummerschool.com/2021/09/01/find-someone-who-generator/Find someone who… is a speaking activity that is typically performed as a student mingling. It can serve multiple purposes such as helping students to get to know each other.

How to Create a Podcast in Six Minutes or Lesshttps://practicaledtech.com/2018/02/25/how-to-create-a-podcast-in-six-minutes-or-less/If you have ever wanted to start a podcast but got deterred by complexity of publishing it, Anchor.fm is the tool that you need.

Online Voice Recorder – Record Voice from the Microphonehttps://online-voice-recorder.com/Record a voice using a microphone – instantly, and save as mp3

Questions & Answershttps://webenglish.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/QA.pdfThis is the first step to getting your students to speak in the classroom. Students read out the questions and answers in turns. The point is that they don’t often match, which makes this game fun. (yr 5-7)

Speaking is Easyhttps://www.rong-chang.com/easyspeak/index.htm

Dialogues to read and practise

WordGamehttp://wordgame.se/WordGame is a web app that helps you get better at speaking the language you’re learning. Hang out with some friends and get started! Explain the word and let your friends guess it. Laughing and learning are guaranteed! Have fun!