TEFLing Without Resources (Except This One!)

By Elliot Lord

This is a collection of TEFL lessons that are effective and fun without needing to prepare any resources (well, you might need some paper at times!). There are 64 plans (and 31 songs) for the different areas of study, being:
Grammar Presentations/ Follow-Up Activities/ Vocabulary Activities/ Games/ Miscellaneous/ Songs With Learning Objectives/ Songs For Children.

They cover the ability levels from beginners to upper intermediate, though some can also be used for any level, including advanced.
There are plans that can be used for children, teenagers and adults and they are especially useful for new teachers and in places where it is not so easy to access many resources.
Over the years, many colleagues have used these ideas and reported that they work well so with this book, you'll be able to deliver lots of fun and interesting activities for students of all ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elliot Lord
• Release date: Jul 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393090595

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Contents

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5. Introduction

Grammar Presentations

8. Can (ability) - Pre-Int

9. Comparatives and Superlatives – Pre-Int

10. First Conditional - Pre-Int

11. Future Continuous – Upper-Int

12. Question Forms - Pre-Int

13. Question Tags – Pre-Int/ Int

14. Reported Statements – Pre-Int/ Int

15. Second Conditional - Pre-Int

16. Subject/ Object Questions - Pre-Int

17. Used to (past use) - Pre-Int

Follow-up Activities

19. Future Continuous – Upper-Int

20. Future Perfect – Upper-Int

21. Modal Verbs of Deduction - Int

22. Passive forms - Pre-Int

23. Past Simple/ Continuous – Elem/ Pre-Int

24. Present Perfect Continuous – Pre-Int >

25. Present Perfect Games (1st use) – Pre-Int >

26. Present Perfect vs. past tenses – Pre-Int >

27. Relative Clauses - Pre-Int

28. Relative Clauses – Int >

29. Reported Commands – Int >

30. Second Conditional (various) - Pre-Int

31. Should (advice) - Pre-Int

32. Subject Questions – Pre-Int >

33. Third Conditional - Upper-Int

34. Will: predictions - Pre-Int

Vocabulary Activities

36. Adjectives (-ed/ -ing) – Int >

37. Opposites - any

38. Phonetic Symbols Chart – Elem >

39. Prefixes and Suffixes – Int >

40. Prepositions of Movement - Pre-Int

41. Prepositions of Place - Pre-Int

42. Prepositions of Time – Elem >

43. Similar Words Chart – Elem >

44. Telling the Time - Elem

45. Turn About (game show) – Pre-Int >

Games

47. Alphabet Race – Pre-Int >

48. Count Down – Pre-Int >

49. The Four Categories – Pre-Int >

50. Mallet's Mallet – Int >

51. Question forms/ vocabulary games (various)– Elem >

52. Rizla Game – Elem >

53. Short Answers – Pre-Int >

54. Simon Says: various uses – Elem >

55. Taboo – Int >

56. Various questioning games – Pre-Int >

57. Win, Lose or Draw – Elem >

58. Wipe Out - Int

59. Word Expansions – Int >

60. Word Puzzle – Pre-Int >

61. More vocabulary games – Pre-Int >

Miscellaneous

63. Consequences – Int >

64. Conversations – Int >

65. Descriptions – Int >

66. Human Substitution Table - any

67. Improvised Stories – Pre-Int >

68. Lateral Thinkers – Int >

70. Mad Debates – Int >

71. Phrasal Verb Revision – Pre-Int >

72. Revising Past Simple, etc. (Wipe Out II) – Elem >

73. Running Dictations – Pre-Int >

74. Teach them gambling! - Elem >

75. Tongue Twisters – any

77. The X Files – Pre-Int >

77. Songs With Learning Objectives

78. Songs For Children

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Introduction

This book developed from ideas I had when I taught English as a Foreign Language. Sometimes I wanted to do something more interesting or more fun than what was in the course books. Some things were inspired by other colleagues or things like TV game shows. Over time, I'd come up with a notebook full of lesson plans that were fun and effective and required minimal preparation. None of us likes spending hours writing or cutting out things for something that's only going to last for 15 minutes so the underlying principle was