Esl Games And Classroom Activities: An Interactive Activity Book for All Ages - Softcover

Gorea, Lucia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595260684 ISBN 13: 9781595260680

Publisher: Aeon Pub Inc, 2005

Synopsis

ESL Games and Classroom Activities is a collection of reproducible and ready-to-use exercises for English as a Second Language students of all ages. These are some of the many efficient exercises I have created and used during my career as an ESL teacher. Activities in this book are intended to get students to take initiative and be more involved in the classroom. This collection of 80 activities covers a wide variety of topics in language areas such as Spelling, Grammar, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary and Word Structure, and Pronunciation. Exercises in this book include Vocabulary, Icebreakers, Discussions, Grammar, Word Order, Role-playing, Socializing, Fill in the Blanks, Classifying, Word Matching, Journal Writing, Games, Peer Interviewing, Rhyming Words, Storytelling, Writing Topics, Spelling, Vowels, Consonants, Clustering, Oral Presentations, Word Association, Proverbs, Suffixes and Prefixes, On the Map, and many more. This book contains easy-to-use language-generating activities to increase students’ motivation and participation. · Exercises and games are clearly explained, and short definitions are given where necessary. · Each activity starts on a new page to allow photocopying for classroom use. · Students can complete exercises individually, in pairs, in small groups, or with the whole class. · Exercises can be completed in class or assigned as homework. · An Answer Key is included at the back of the book. These activities are designed to build self-esteem and develop new language skills or reinforce skills already mastered in all language areas. With these fun and surprising exercises, students will be motivated, challenged, and inspired in their learning process. Teachers will find these activities attractive and useful in making their lessons more pertinent and fun.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucia Gorea earned her doctorate degree from Atlantic International University, a prestigious university in the United States, where she majored in English and Education. Her extensive career teaching English as a Second Language, English Literature, and Workplace English, both in North America and throughout Europe, has afforded her significant insight into and appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism in today’s world. Dr. Gorea’s panoramic experience as an ESL and English college/university professor and as a high school teacher, coupled with her love and passion for teaching and her compassionate respect for immigrant and refugee cultures, emanates from this activity book, ESL Games and Classroom Activities: An Interactive Activity Book for All Ages, which she has written as a teaching resource for the ESL classroom. Lucia is also the author of Welcome to America! A Practical Guide to Life Survival Skills. Case Studies, published with Authorhouse in 2004. Lucia is also an award-winning international poet and has been recognized with several awards conferred by societies throughout the United States. A number of her poems have been published in prestigious poetry anthologies. Her major awards include the Shakespeare Trophy, the President’s Award for Literary Excellence, the International Poet of Merit Award, the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, and the Editor’s Choice Award. Lucia’s biographical profile is included in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Education, International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, and Who’s Who in the World. She lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aeon Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1595260684
• ISBN 13: 9781595260680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160