a Collection of general ideas for the ESL classroom

- Reverse Charades (acupuncture, party, wrestling, bank unicorn, pyramid) - no talking, just group acting and one guesser
- What's Yours Like? - all but one person know what the thing is, everyone gives an answer except the guesser(s)
- place yourselves on a map on the floor across the room
- Human Computer (Pronunciation)
- Conversation Circle
    + Skim, Convo Circle, then Detail reading
- matching of L1 and L2 new sentences
- Creation Computer
- introduce emotional language early (Interjections!)
- have an empty chair in the center, students may join and leave at will, always leaving one empty chair for conversation
- use the experiential learning cycle
- use realiia
- put on a small TED talk as a class
- have students research and present an issue within their society
- school/classroom newspaper
- Just use the words "it is isn't it not as" and see what sentences you can make
- draw a picture of using L1 vs. L2
- Community blackboard to get initial students input
- Jeopardy on the board with index cards
- Use page 108-109 from bell hook's Teaching to Transgress for a class activity: Whose excitement and responsibility should we find in the classroom?